"Dog3" > wrote in message
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>> On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 17:52:44 -0500, Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
>>>
>>> It feels good to be purging some of the unnecessary stuff we've
>>> accumulated.
>>
>> I'm not in the collecting mode now, but I'm not ready to give up my
>> "stuff" either. Someday, someway, I'll be in that mood. The problem
>> is that once I have more room, I'll probably just start collecting
>> again.
>>
>> The standing joke at work is "she who dies with the most *stuff*
>> wins".
>>
>
> I'm in the process of sorting out my cookbooks. I'm still not sure which
> I'll keep and which I'll either give away or do what with. Perhaps in
> time
> I will be able to part with them. My cookbook storage is bulging and the
> biggest surprise in there are the dozens, perhaps hundreds of newspaper
> clips and scraps of paper with recipes on them.
>
> Now, if I could read my own writing...
>
> Michael
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Michael, I had kept large notebooks (probably 15 of them) filled with
xerox'd recipes over the years. Plus zip-locks full of pieces of recipes,
instructions for appliances. I finally conquered this, getting it down to
about 3 large notebooks by scanning what I wanted to keep and throwing out
the rest. It took a long while.
I had to do the same thing with my quilting hobby and hundreds of photos and
hundreds of art magazine articles.
It can be done!
Good luck,
Dee Dee