Day 137 - Sweet Valley Twins & Other Books

I picked these Sweet Valley Twins books up awhile back thinking they'd be fun for the girls as they got older, but flipping through them I realized they're much more mature than I remember and I don't want to hang on to them for 5 years.

1 to 17. Sweet Valley Twins books
18. Pattern for 'Bangle Hats' from the 60's
19. children's paperback book
20. princess book the kids destroyed
21. The Mommy Diaries
22. beach read, of title I can't remember and is to small to read
23 & 24. Anne Perry mysteries
25. Cherry Ames, Student Nurse book
26. Psalms in Aramaic

Katie

Day 136 - CD/DVD-Roms

An assortment of empty boxes, various discs, and pamplets for web-cams. Twenty-Six in all!

Katie

Day 135 - Nintendo Power, Script, All You

1 to 17. Old Nintendo Power magazines. A few of these date back to 1989!
18. I don't remember what this black thing is
19. Blender magazine with Andy Samberg on the cover. DH is a big fan - you can see a blog he started here.
20 to 22. Script Magazine - a subscription I got for DH so sure he'd love it but as you can see some are unopened!
23 & 24. All You magazine
25. A local recreation guide that's been hanging around for months
26. Parents Magazine

Katie

Day 134 - Nintendo Strategy Guides, Gaming Brochures

DH found even MORE Nintendo publications this weekend.

Here are:
8 Player's Guides specific to games
1 SuperNintendo general guide
1 Gameboy general guide
6 Pamphlets from E3 about products
6 Nintendo Catalogs
4 Sheets of Star Wars decals

Katie

Day 133 - 3.5 Floppy Disc Extravaganza!

Do these look familiar? Did anyone under 25 ever use these?

I remember how much cooler these were than those big, literally floppy 5" discs I used on our Commodore 64. Quick, somebody comment about how they remember those, too or I'll feel really old!

We actually set aside 3 more of these floppies to mine data, if possible. One was labeled as correspondence between DH and I back before we were married so I want to save that, if possible. Can you believe we actually still have 2 desktop computers that read these discs!?! You'll be seeing those last three discs and at least one of those computers before ProjectTwentySix is through.

1 to 3. Zip Discs, for compressed data (Tee-hee!). We don't have a reader for these anymore, but we'll assume we don't need the data.
4 to 6. Cassette tapes - 2 sermons and something else
7 to 25. 3.5" floppy discs
26. A handbook for a TI-91. I figured this belonged in a photo with other, outdated technology.

Katie

Day 132 - Paper Miscellaneous

Today my mom told me she thought I was cheating on ProjectTwentySix when I posted a day of papers or stuff that would just go in the trash anyway. Sometimes stuff DOES go directly to the trash can after I take a photo, but the point is that before I started ProjectTwentySix those items DIDN'T go to the trash can.

Today's post is a good example of trash not making it to the trash can. These are mostly papers that have hanging around our home for years, literally. We were purposefully keeping most of them and others have just been hanging around because we never bothered to throw them away.

1 to 5. These are newsletters from the grocery store where DH worked back when we very first we married 8 years ago. DH wrote some small pieces/articles/funny bits that were 'published' in these, so he saved them.
6.Envelope that used to contain a computer game on a 3.5" floppy disk.
7 to 16. "Q" commendation cards that DH received on the job at that same grocery store. Notes of appreciation, mostly for a job well done. Yay DH! Working hard full time while he also went to school full time.
17. A card to record his collection of "Q" cards
18. A business card of an Uncle who has been retired for 3 years
19. A ministry card of a dear friend who passed away 2 years ago
20. Lego guide pages to build a soccer player
21. Pages of a Bible study I led almost 5 years ago!
22. A recipe I copied out of a book about 2.5 years ago
23. A potty chart I received between DDs #2 and #3 because I'm on a mommy mailing list. I completely forgot about it and managed to potty train DD#3 without it and figure DD#4 will do fine, too.
24. An invitation to get Lego Magazine
25. A Sunday school project that's been floating around (ha!)
26. Paperwork/Instructions for a toy set of Megablocks that's been gone for 9 months, sold at a garage sale last June.

I don't know about you, but I think al those papers are worthy of inclusion in ProjectTwentySix. Yes, some are small and every one of these items went to the recyle bin, but all have been in my house for years and just causing clutter. So there!

Love you, Mom! ;)

Katie

Friday Narrative - Update

I was looking back through old posts and realized I have completely forgotten about the Friday Narrative! Sometimes it's all I can do to get a post together each day (or almost . . .) but I'll see if I can manage to work this back in again.

We've been finding lots of items in the basement lately. My brother, who has a construction business with my dad, has been helping us from time to time with a remodel and since he's coming to visit again in the very near future we're trying to get stuff out his way. It doesn't seem to bother him at all, but it bothers ME when everything gets covered in dust.

There's also a city recycling event coming up in which I hope to get rid of lots of construction debris along with several electronic items that I hate to send to the landfill. Watch for posts on that as we prepare for it.

I love the idea of this project as it reminds me that the 'stuff' we surround ourselves with is not as important as we think. In application it's painful to realize just how attached I am to this 'stuff,' and the love I have for it is pretty sad!

Well, we're over 3 months in now and today I don't know how I'll keep it up through 12 months. Next week I might feel differently - One day at a time.

Katie