Archive for May, 2006
Friday, May 12th, 2006
Collectibles That Never Are
Can you make a sound judgement you’ll feel ok about in ten years whether something will ever be worth collecting?
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
Fight Identity Theft: Free Community Shreds
There’s a free Community Shred tomorrow (May 11th) sponsored by the AARP at the Tacoma Elks Club at 1965 South Union, Tacoma 98045 from 10am-2PM.
You can bring up 4 banker boxes (12”x11”x16”) or two medium garbage bags.
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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
Making The Break With Old High Tech
Today I went both high-tech and low-tech. I identified three obsolete computers I was saving ranging in power from PII-350 and PIII-700. I decided they had to go under the 10-10 Rule. While the PIII-700 could possibly squeak by as useful, and at one time served as a media-server/game box/webcam host it was not actually [...]
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Saturday, May 6th, 2006
100+ Pounds Out of the House Today
A good day today. I struggled with what to with a $250 electric scooter that needed two batteries (again), had a flat and never worked all that well. Probably with a few hours work, someone with more mechanical inclination toward tuning, some ebay shopping, it could have been brought back to life, but the Segway [...]
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Friday, May 5th, 2006
Declutter: A First Pass
I rstarted by reading various clutter-reduction books, but limited my initial search to undesirable objects in the home that were heavy, outsized, or awkward. My theory was that the ‘return on investment’ for getting rid of these items was much better than the smaller items.
My guiding principle is the 10-10 Rule.
Books - At this point, [...]
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Thursday, May 4th, 2006
A Decluttering Critical Step: Collection
One of the first phases of decluttering is the ‘collection’ phase. In ‘collection’ the goal is to bring together all the stuff, usually in a room or group of rooms and decide whether the items in the room belong there or belong elsewhere. Setting up plastic storage tubs labeled for ‘donation’, ‘elsewhere’, ‘junk’ etc is [...]
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Monday, May 1st, 2006
Welcome To Creatrope.com
It’s spring and it’s time for stuff to leave the house en-masse. After years of garage sales and general accumulation, I’ve decided that it’s time to make some extra space. I think my house is generally ok, it’s not cluttered by any typical standard, but as they say, less is more.
I’ve chosen a path that [...]