No, they're not secret, but until a few years ago account numbers used to be on the receipts. Even without debit card or credit card accounts listed there is still often personal information present. I want to remove temptation to go through the trash if someone spots receipts before it gets picked up. It gets shredded and commingled, junk mail, receipts, etc. The income tax formula for subtracting state and local sales tax is sufficient so I don't keep them for that (except one year when I bought a bunch of computer stuff, then the receipts saved me a lot of money). I put them in an envelope for each month based on past experience--if you don't save it then you'll need it later. For some silly little thing. But after a while they don't need to be kept. These had been set aside (out of sight. . . ). Now they're history.

Space next to stove is good thing, and using a table is okay (I dropped a few words in that last text, (I pull use it as smooth surface for pie crusts or to make poteca. should have said "I pull it out to use as a smooth surface"). What I need to observe is: is this the best table for the space, the best way to use the microwave and the table, or do some or all of these things need to go? I have lots of kitchen gadgets I inherited, so some purging there makes sense. I have two microwaves. Two bread machines. Etc.

I was reading Clutter's Last Stand again and identified a couple of more things to go through--in particular, the yardage that my sister sent from my Mom's estate. It was set neatly in drawers in a dresser I use for sewing stuff, but I didn't look at it critically. I could probably pull at least half of that out, and if I don't make room for sewing again pretty soon, probably more than that! In a clutter quiz at the front of the book one of the questions is "I can save this old pilly blanket for a quilt bat"--he got me where I live there! I have way too many blankets here. Some are truly interesting antiques, textiles worth preserving that can still also be used. But a lot are the indeterminate-age fuzzy double-sized blankets that should probably be donated to the Goodwill or next time there is a tornado.

SRS