Making up for lost time...

Wow, so that's exactly why I have been so strict with myself about posting to this blog every day. A little burp in my schedule and I go and take four days off, plus the given Sunday when I don't participate in the Lenten Five-Item-Smackdown!

Well, thanks to my lovely wife Katie, who helped me last night to accumulate items for last Thursday, Friday, Saturday, yesterday, and today, I have one huge post  of pics and a almost a full box for the No Sell Garage Sale at our church this coming Saturday. She has decided to start looking at some items that we could do without and donate them to the cause,  but last night she admitted to feeling a bit possessive of some of the things we were considering passing on.

It was quite a telling moment for us, considering a Corning ware pie plate that she didn't like but had a hard time immediately discarding. After I asked her what this pie plate could do that other baking sheets or the hand-thrown pie plate we have couldn't do, that reasoning seemed to close the case. This is one huge reason I'm doing this project, to look for the many, MANY possessions in my life that are redundancies (how many blue dress shirts do I need? How many muffin pans could we possibly use at one time? Etc., etc.)  So thanks for partnering with me in this effort, Katie! That's one more pile of extras in our life that hopefully will go some some folks who don't have any.

Here's the scoop:

 A bottle of body wash. A tube of Toasted Vanilla hand cream. A high dollar loofah. A comb. A bottle of Stetson aftershave. A beard trimmer. A set of shower curtain rings. Two white organizer baskets. = 9 items

 A muffin pan. A bread pan. The controversial pie plate ;-) A chip clip. An unopened dumpling press. A colander. A cookbook from the American Cancer Society with recipes for different holidays and party themes. = 7 items.

A neglected popcorn popper and Dirt Devil. A broken scale and toaster for the trash. = 4 items.

So that takes care of Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Monday. Now for Tuesday:

Three lightly used Dr. Brown's gas-fighting newborn bottles.

One unopened can of Similac infant formula.

A Christmas bib.  I guess Avonlea is inadvertently getting in the action too  ;-)

Sorry for the absense. I will try not to let it happen again.

Peace.