Oct. 23, 2009 - Decluttered Item of the Day
I am still in decluttering mode, so I thought it would be fun to keep an on-going list of items I have thrown away or given away. Yesterday it was my 4-inch-high stack of homeschool catalogs. Today I found two more catalogs, a K-4 teacher's manual that I know I will never use, and three books that I have duplicates of. What will it be tomorrow?
1. Homeschool catalogs
2. K-4 teacher's manual and three duplicate books
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Oct. 21, 2009 - Favorite Homeschooling Catalogs
I'm decluttering the easy stuff first: homeschooling catalogs. I love to look through them, but I have found that I tend to feel discontent when I do -- like what I am doing is not enough or not good enough somehow. Most of the information contained in the catalogs is available on-line, so I doubt that I will miss them much. I am making a list of my favorites, in no particular order, so that I don't forget any of them:
Rainbow Resource
Vision Forum
Saxon Homeschool
Veritas Press
Dover Publications
Timberdoodle
Lamplighter
Rod & Staff
Christian Liberty Press
The Critical Thinking Co.
Heart of Dakota Publishing
The Great Books Foundation
Christianbook.com
Beautiful Feet Books
Keepers of the Faith
Sonlight
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Oct. 21, 2009 - Simplifying
Several months ago my husband sent me a link to a Time magazine article entitled How to Live With Just 100 Things. The idea has intrigued me ever since then. I tend to be a pack rat, so this would be a huge challenge for me, but a challenge that I am contemplating.
I plan to begin by finding one item to throw away or give away each day for a while. I will also keep a numbered list of the personal items I plan to keep.
1. Bible
2. Engagement ring
3. Wedding ring
4. Kindle
5. Library (yes, I know this is cheating but I will work on reducing its size)
6. Sewing machine
7. Camera
8. iPod
9. Computer
10. Printer
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