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Thread #173767   Message #4222184
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
07-May-25 - 12:22 PM
Thread Name: DECLUTTER: *Sorting *Health *Progress - 2025
Subject: RE: DECLUTTER: *Sorting *Health *Progress - 2025
Sandra, your Reverse Garbage shop sounds amazing! I know I've referenced a book I read recently, Adam Minter's Junkyard Planet, where he examines how scrap is reused (that's an extremely broad understatement of the process.) I have a new appreciation of the process and desire to find places that do actually reuse or sell to the appropriate places for scrap. I have his next book in the stack to be read (to do with thrift shops and clothing).

The online camera manual is around 500 pages, so I'm not going to try to print it. I downloaded the searchable PDF and I have a lot of tricks to learn. I probably shouldn't have waited so long to make this replacement, it's a much steeper learning curve than if it was something like a phone, that I tend to research and replace every 3-4 years. A dozen years was probably overdoing it. Like my ex stubbornly refusing to give up his old flip phone until recently.

The lawn is tall and very wet. I'll look at it this afternoon and see if there are any areas to start on that won't leave mower wheel marks dug into the wet soil.

Looking at the pantry project again this week as I decide how many of the things in there I never use and can send to the eBay stack, Goodwill, or Freecycle, etc. And since I'm not eating bread much these days except for gluten-free products, I am way overstocked in the materials useful for its manufacture. That could clear out a lot of space.