Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 90 - Tired Markers, Retired

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 89 - Barely Colored Pencils

Colored pencils are fun but these aren't.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 88 - Vintage Maple Syrup Bridge Tally

Vintage ephemera is delightful and easily stored but who needs boxes of the stuff.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 87 - Cute Craft Bag

I bought this adorable bag for it's great smile, too bag the function aspect wasn't as great. It didn't hold paper and the art supplies were dreadful.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 86 - Self Starter Vintage Postcard

This post card came with some other vintage postcards. I scanned it and Photoshopped out the text.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 85 - Stumped Santa

I bought this Santa to climb a ladder on the Christmas tree. I think the ladder is gone and since the kids are grown, dolls hold zero appeal.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 84 - Homemade Audio Book CDs

I converted several old audio book cassettes to CD and put each book in its own case. They all ended up in the garage since the books didn't warrant the limited space available on my Mac Book Pro. Now I  have an iMac and it's a hungry beast.

It's funny how flipping audio cassettes became a nuisance so we put them on CDs, then the iPod made CDs obsolete.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 83 - Hand Thrown Pots With Lids Glazed On

My daughter makes wonderful pots but somehow theses lids melded with the bottoms. I kept meaning to use them as garden art but couldn't get past the idea of garden clutter.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 82 - A Lazy Waffle Maker

There's nothing better than crispy waffles; too bad this waffle maker couldn't make them.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 81 - Santa Christmas Advent Calendar

I made this when my kids were little; it had numbered hearts that went on small brass nails. I'm not sure where the numbers went but it doesn't matter, my kids are a little old for advent calendars.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 80 - My Husband's Ratty Belt

My darling hubby tried to hide how bad this belt had become, now it's gone.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 79 - Extra Road Trip Brochures

We recently went to the Spam Museum in Austin. I got a huge kick out of the top recipe for Macaroni and Cheese with Spam. You make mac and cheese according to the directions on the box and add cubed Spam. Really?

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 78 - Stylus For a Pocket PC

The Pocket PC is gone so it's rather silly to hang onto these extra styluses. I loved how this kept me organized and allowed my staff to set appointments and now it's more electronic trash. It's hard to believe it originally cost more than a lap top does now.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 77 - Mug With Ducks in Flight

I bought a bunch of wilderness mugs at garage sales when we bought the cabin, most have never been used. This is the most this cup has been interacted with since it was purchased.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 76 - Purse with Tooth Marks

The sequins are falling off and my teething puppy found the leather handles particularly inviting.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 75 - Incredibly Awesome Crafts For Kids

This book was an incredible resource back when I was a Girl Scout Leader. My troop made something at almost every meeting and many of our projects were inspired by the ones in this book.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 74 - Drawing Stupid Cartooning Book

I found this book at the clearance section of Half Price Books and it on its way back to HPB. The author is a talented cartoonist with some very helpful suggestions and did not suffer from self esteem issues.

Every few years I thin out my books and I've probably bought enough to stock a small town library.

Addendum: We brought this book plus a bunch of other books to Half Price Books and they offered us a $1; I will stick with donating them to the library. HPB is a good place to buy, but not to sell.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 73 - Volumizing Hair Product

OK, just because the hair stylist can make this work doesn't mean I'll ever replicate her efforts. Why would I buy heat activated hair gunk when I never blow dry my hair? I have a hair drier but it's used to dry watercolor paint and soften the glue on price tags.

I need a salon wing man.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 72 - Dollar Store Storage Bin

My daughter bought this plastic storage box for some cookies from Ikea. It's a weird size but I stopped her from tossing it, saying I'll see if I can find a use for it. It housed carrot sticks, was washed and now it's on it's way back to the trash. She had more sense than me.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 71 - Leaky Travel Mug

This mug works as well as a dribble glass, doesn't keep coffee warm, and can't be microwaved. The only reason I kept it this long was it was expensive.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 70 - Worthless Whisk

This whisk should theoretically work better than a fork but it doesn't. I have an excellent whisk and a bevy of forks so why continue to hang onto a tool that hasn't been used in years.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 69 - Halloween Witch Hat

Crepe paper and glitter make a fun hat but are amazing dust collectors; perhaps it's spookier that way

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 68 - Vintage Linen Curtis Hotel Postcard

Many years ago I bought a custom made, free standing marquee sign from the Curtis hotel in Minneapolis. The landmark hotel was torn down decades age and since I knew so little about the hotel I started collecting Curtis Hotel memorabilia. I still have the sign but I no longer care to keep the supporting memorabilia. I sold this postcard; now I need to work through the remainder.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 67 - Rusty Can Opener

I think this came from and old camping box; the multifunction aspect is nice, it's also a church key and a bottle opener. I'm not crazy about using a rusty object with food so if we eat something from a can I think I'll use the other can opener that doesn't have an uncomfortable butterfly crank covered in rust.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 66 - Cheese Knife

This unused knife came with a vendor gift. It doesn't go with my dishes and I have a gorgeous vintage cheese knife; why did I store this one so long?

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 65 - Teapot Shaped Tea Infuser From the 1970s

My hubby used to drink loose tea from the co-op while he was in college. I kept this cute tea ball even though it never worked well and he stopped drinking tea. Every once in awhile it would show up in a kitchen drawer and I would think "this is cute" and toss it back in the drawer.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 64 - Vinyl Fast Food Sign

A friend has a messenger bag made from an old billboard and I thought it would be fun to make a bag from this colorful sign. My old sewing machine was a beast but this new one whimpers at the thought of sewing through vinyl. One and a half years is enough time to store a 10 foot long sign.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 63 - 3 Grocery Bags of Empty DVD Cases

My daughter has a huge DVD collection but they took up more space than she cared for so the cases ended up being stored in my garage. Now they are not... I did use some of them to make a plant stand last August.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 62 - Vintage Costumed Children Place Cards

I've heard about amazing warehouse finds, no I didn't find them in a warehouse but I bought a bunch of them from someone who did and then sold this set to a collector.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 61 - Beistle Halloween Witch Hat With Silver Ghosts 1988

The hat has crepe paper around the bottom edge and I used to display it on a vintage paper mache jack-o-lantern. The German lantern is now in a museum and the witch hat nicely showcases lots of dust.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 60 - Blue Painted Wooden Eggs

I taught a class where we painted folk art Santas with wooden egg bodies, these were leftover. I painted them to fill a wire chicken basket. The basket flew the coop many, many years ago but the eggs remained for some reason. I always planed on doing something cool with them but...

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 59 - Halloween Name Tags with Skulls

It's been 15 years since we threw a Halloween party and everyone there knew each other. I loved the "Hello, my name was" and bought them for that reason only. I thought they would be a funny, last minute costume but my inner 12 year old always demanded something better. I'll put a few sheets in my artist journal and let the rest go haunt someone else.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 58 - Jack-o-lantern Halloween Paper Lantern

Ooooo... I'd been trying to work ooooo into a sentence. Huzzah! Hey that's two in one paragraph. OK, that's a complete lie but I didn't have much to say about this lantern.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 57 - Cybermen Display Stands

If a cyberman can't stand on it's own it will be assimilated. The stands are scheduled to be deleted.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 56 - Antique Altoids

Altoids, unlike Twinkies, have a life span. I was thrilled when they appeared in the back of a drawer but the taste test was unsuccessful. I'm not fussy; I've happily eaten loose, fuzzy, Hot Tamales candy from the bottom of my purse but these didn't make the cut.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 55 - Robot Nodder Bobblehead Cabdy Container

Yay, this is something I didn't buy! I was given 2 tubes of candy with nodder heads. The gift giver thought I'd like to make robot bodies for the nodders and gave me 3 packs of air hardening clay to make them with. That's not going to happen but I'll use the clay for sculpture.

I asked the heads about tossing the candy and they nodded in approval. When inquired if they wanted to go along with, they said yes. Perhaps I should have hesitated about tossing such agreeable companions but I'll work through the guilt.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 54 - Little House on the Prairie Christmas Book

Scholastic book from when my kids were in grade school.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 53 - War Machine From Iron Man Micro Action Figure

Huh? I must have been a freebie at a comic book event that my kids went to.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 52 - The Nutcracker Ballet Book with Cassette Tape

We have better versions and no longer own a cassette player.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 51 - Unused Data Cable

The quantity of clutter from electronics is astonishing. I've started putting identifying tags on all new cords and that takes the mystery out of loose cords. I have a huge drawer full of these things that I need to investigate further.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 50 - Leather Lanyard

I found this leather lanyard abandoned at a business function. It looks great but it's slightly more comfortable than barbed wire to wear.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 49 - Grey Leather Craft Strip

Hinges? Strap? I have no idea what I thought this was necessary for...

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 48 - The Pageantry of Christmas Book

Did I just hear a herald blowing a horn at another unused book's departure?

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 47 - Fake Red Leather Luggage Tag

How many luggage tags does a person need? I have some very nice ones that I prefer so why hold onto one that I may someday find a use for?

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 46 - Road ID Bracelet Tin

I love my new Road ID bracelet. It's waterproof and beautifully engraved but the tin it was mailed in was unnecessary packaging that I don't care to keep.

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Feng Shui Clutter Clearing Day 45 - Swimsuit

I used to think I was stalked by pool walkers because they admired my strong, smooth, clean strokes. Nope, the suit becomes transparent when wet...

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