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“Just get rid of it” my friend Ann says
“Just get rid of it”. “No one wants it.” “Collecting dust on a shelf means you have to clean it.” ”Sell it.” Why is it easy for some people to get rid of things?declutter? downsize with no difficulty?
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Souvenir
Souvenir- a thing that is kept as a reminder of a person, place, or event. There are two pronunciations of souvenir (soo-vuh–neer or soo–vuh-neer) Which do you say? Perhaps you avoid collecting...
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Souvenir Guest Gallery
Guest Contributions to Today’s Souvenir Gallery. A follow-on post from Tuesday’s Post- Souvenir Sometimes you purchase the souvenir yourself, and sometimes a souvenir is brought to you as a gift from...
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Matchbooks
Matchbooks used to be found in abundance at restaurants. “A matchbook is a small paperboard folder enclosing a quantity of matches and having a coarse striking surface on the exterior.” Wikipedia I...
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You Can’t Look Away
More yard art down the block from Laura’s house. In the afternoon sun. An eclectic mix. A few crops below, so you don’t miss the details. I took just one quick shot cause I wanted to get home before...
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A Prancing Lamb
A vintage ceramic prancing lamb has been in my friend’s home at least fifty years and in her mother’s home long before that. I visited my friend Tookie today to share our knitting projects progress...
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Decorative Doorstoppers
Do you have one in your home? Do you have a door that will swing shut if it isn’t held open with a doorstopper? We used to have a cast iron iron. I saw a window full of vintage door stoppers, mostly...
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Sifting Through a Junk Dish
You might have an actual junk drawer. I do. This glass dish accumulation is on a smaller scale. The items need to be evaluated and most of them discarded. An old eraser, the end of the curtain rod,...
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Did You Ever Own a Metal Lunchbox?
They were banned in schools in the 1970s after parents complained they were used as weapons and caused serious head injuries. Their history is here from the first Hopalong Cassidy box, to the the last...
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Throwback Thursday Shirley Temple Doll from the Fifties
The 1937 movie Heidi starring Shirley Temple inspired this doll. My friend has a vintage doll collection. I photographed her dolls in 2015 and had a jigsaw puzzle created from one of the photos. Dolls...
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