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I still have a lot of decluttering to do. Just have not been doing much of it. However, the other day I got in the mood to spend some time at it. When I start, I always end up getting a bag for things I want to donate and one for things I want to throw away. I got rid of old VCR tapes, some college textbooks, other books, boxes...I cannot even think of all I got rid of.
Well, some of it has actually been picked up when the trash service ran yesterday morn. And I have a big bag just full of stuff to be donated. And have another bag started of things for donation. And you know with all we have donated, and all that has found its way to the trash, you cannot tell that anything is gone. I tell Roger all the time that we are rich....we have to be to be able to get rid of so much and not even miss it.
Granted, some of it is things that have been given to me. And I got rid of a pair of my jeans that were threadbare almost. One of my pairs for mowing the yard in. A pair that most women would not be seen dead in. And I got rid of things that I have not worn in ages.
anyway, the point of this is I got in this one tote that had some of the girls school work...notes, etc. And then there was a spiral notebook and I opened it and there was a 'journal' I had started when we lived in Tennessee. I sat down to read a little bit in it and came across where I had been to the grocery store.
This was back in 1978. I spent $28 plus some change and here is what I got for that amount:
3 chuck blade steaks
10 pk chops
2-3 lbs of hamburger
gallon of milk
16 slices of cheese
lunchmeat ( I didn't say how much--probably one of those variety packages they used to have)
tea
toilet paper (I am sure that was back when we always got a 4-roll package)
and some canned goods.That is just how I wrote it back then, except for the part in the parenthesis. I wonder what that would cost now?
