TMedina Posted January 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 We're all NSA sleeper agents. Where did you think they came up with the idea for Agent Smith? Quote Imaginary Human Male Dilettante Trainer, Level 1 Spoiler How to: Add the status bar to my signature How to: Spruce up your profile Where to start: General Fitness questions How to: Declutter your life, a minimalism thread How to: Slay your budgeting woes (or at least, start the quest) Link to comment
kaelvan Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 We're all NSA sleeper agents. Where did you think they came up with the idea for Agent Smith? Quote “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.†~Paulo Coelho I'm a level 3 moon elf, who's an druid assassin. My InspirationTumblr, which helps me stay the course for art challengeFB, which I guess we could be friend My challengeInstagram Link to comment
TMedina Posted January 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 1 Quote Imaginary Human Male Dilettante Trainer, Level 1 Spoiler How to: Add the status bar to my signature How to: Spruce up your profile Where to start: General Fitness questions How to: Declutter your life, a minimalism thread How to: Slay your budgeting woes (or at least, start the quest) Link to comment
kaelvan Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Quote “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.†~Paulo Coelho I'm a level 3 moon elf, who's an druid assassin. My InspirationTumblr, which helps me stay the course for art challengeFB, which I guess we could be friend My challengeInstagram Link to comment
TMedina Posted January 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Quote Imaginary Human Male Dilettante Trainer, Level 1 Spoiler How to: Add the status bar to my signature How to: Spruce up your profile Where to start: General Fitness questions How to: Declutter your life, a minimalism thread How to: Slay your budgeting woes (or at least, start the quest) Link to comment
kaelvan Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 1 Quote “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.†~Paulo Coelho I'm a level 3 moon elf, who's an druid assassin. My InspirationTumblr, which helps me stay the course for art challengeFB, which I guess we could be friend My challengeInstagram Link to comment
pyrite_philter Posted January 15, 2015 Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 I can officially say that I have no idea what happened to this thread 1 Quote Link to comment
TMedina Posted January 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 Derailments, free of charge. 3 Quote Imaginary Human Male Dilettante Trainer, Level 1 Spoiler How to: Add the status bar to my signature How to: Spruce up your profile Where to start: General Fitness questions How to: Declutter your life, a minimalism thread How to: Slay your budgeting woes (or at least, start the quest) Link to comment
TMedina Posted January 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2015 Random epiphany of the day: "At some point, you just have to throw stuff away." No matter how much effort you put forth, some things just will not be easily re-purposed, if at all. And in the grand scheme of cost-benefit analysis, why exactly are you putting forth effort to save, recycle, or re-purpose this widget? Is the return on your invested effort worth the benefit you get from saving or re-purposing it? I use a lot of protein powder - I had four of those silly little plastic scoops in my "supplement accessories" tub. Why? In case the first one broke? Because it was perfectly useful, functional, and it was a waste to throw it away even though I had no use for it, and it was clutter in my space. I could donate it to Good Will, but what would they do with it? Why would someone else buy a plastic scoop that costs, quite literally, pennies? Plastic recycling? That would be cool, if they took them. 3 Quote Imaginary Human Male Dilettante Trainer, Level 1 Spoiler How to: Add the status bar to my signature How to: Spruce up your profile Where to start: General Fitness questions How to: Declutter your life, a minimalism thread How to: Slay your budgeting woes (or at least, start the quest) Link to comment
Heidi Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 Gah! Those scoops drive me crazy. 1 Quote ♥ & ☮, Heidi Spoiler Gypsy Druid Level 12 Philosopher and level 11 Librarian (built on the Monk class, with a training path in The Way of the Cobalt Soul) Ranger: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 :: Druid: 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |:: 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |:: 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |:: 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |:: 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 |:: 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53| 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 |:: 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | :: 70 | Paladin: 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | :: 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | Shaman: 82 | 83 | 84 Philosopher-Librarian 85 |:: 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | Heidi Chronicles NF Character Sheet | @theheidifeed| MySlashdotKarmaIsExcellent Walk to Mordor - (spreadsheet) Let's catch up: https://calendly.com/loveandpeace Link to comment
fleaball Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 That is exactly my problem! I don't want to throw out the random things, but there's nothing else to do with them. I'll have to draw strength from this thread. 3 Quote Level 69 Battle Kitten Battle Log | Current Challenge MyFitnessPal | Fitbit | Duolingo Ici je vis la vie que j'ai choisie Je suis partie pour reconstruire ma vie C'est dit, c'est ainsi Link to comment
pyrite_philter Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 I cleaned out so much stuff today! Mostly clothes and shoes. I'm making progress! Tomorrow I'm going to sell back some of my gently worn items to this store that buys stuff like that. So we'll see how much money I can get from that! Even if it is $10 I'll be happy because I'm one step closer to less shit and I'm $10 richer! I'll keep everyone update on that front. 2 Quote Link to comment
TMedina Posted January 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 Awesome job! 1 Quote Imaginary Human Male Dilettante Trainer, Level 1 Spoiler How to: Add the status bar to my signature How to: Spruce up your profile Where to start: General Fitness questions How to: Declutter your life, a minimalism thread How to: Slay your budgeting woes (or at least, start the quest) Link to comment
alienjenn Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 I recently got rid o all my dvd's... (probably close to 400 of them) I boxed them all up and put them in a closet for 6 weeks... no one asked for them that entire time so I donated them to a friend who works with kids programs with the intenion that any he didn't use would go to salvation army... it was about 6 months later that I realized I still had the dvd player... donated that to the same friend... in between those two things I culled my game collection probably in third... and the rest will be going with the kids when they move... I am culling my clothes and dishes... in my house it's mostly the kids who are hoarders... I am slowly convincing them to get rid of things... 2 Quote Level 10.4 Wood-Elf, Ranger - specializing in demon fighting "doing the impossible since 2012 :D" - Librarian of Doom facebook battle log level 50 WOOT Backstory CNF2014 current (not challenge - doing a battle log this time) Spoiler * This is the day the Lord has made, rejoice in it and be glad. God, The Bible. * Do or do not, there is no try. - Yoda * There are three options in this life; be good, get good, or give up. -- House * Never take counsel of your fears. Stonewall Jackson. * level 50 isn't gonna just POOF happen - alienjenn, NF IRC chatroom * I'm not about to give up - Because I heard you say - There's gonna be brighter days… I won't stop, I'll keep my head up - No, I'm not here to stay ... - I just might bend but I won't break - As long as I can see your face - When life won't play along - And right keeps going wrong - And I can't seem to find my way - I know where I am found - So I won't let it drag me down - Oh, I'll keep dancing anyway - Mercy Me - Move Link to comment
kaelvan Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 I'm surprised I'm actually getting rid of stuff. Now to make sure it stays that way 2 Quote “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.†~Paulo Coelho I'm a level 3 moon elf, who's an druid assassin. My InspirationTumblr, which helps me stay the course for art challengeFB, which I guess we could be friend My challengeInstagram Link to comment
pyrite_philter Posted January 19, 2015 Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 So I took in a small trash bag of stuff to that store that buys back gently used clothes, they only chose to buy 7 items from me, but I got $19.20!!!! 3 Quote Link to comment
TMedina Posted January 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 Portland has a list of very specific items they do, and don't, take. I'll have to look again and see on the off-chance I'm mis-remembering, but they won't take plastic bottles under 8 oz, which suggests to me they wouldn't be bothered with a plastic scoop of 8 oz or less. Quote Imaginary Human Male Dilettante Trainer, Level 1 Spoiler How to: Add the status bar to my signature How to: Spruce up your profile Where to start: General Fitness questions How to: Declutter your life, a minimalism thread How to: Slay your budgeting woes (or at least, start the quest) Link to comment
TMedina Posted January 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 Yup, here we go: Portland Recycling guidelines. No lids either. Quote Imaginary Human Male Dilettante Trainer, Level 1 Spoiler How to: Add the status bar to my signature How to: Spruce up your profile Where to start: General Fitness questions How to: Declutter your life, a minimalism thread How to: Slay your budgeting woes (or at least, start the quest) Link to comment
fleaball Posted January 19, 2015 Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 Don't they have people that will go through your bins and actually not empty them if you put something in the wrong one? I feel like that was mentioned to me before. Quote Level 69 Battle Kitten Battle Log | Current Challenge MyFitnessPal | Fitbit | Duolingo Ici je vis la vie que j'ai choisie Je suis partie pour reconstruire ma vie C'est dit, c'est ainsi Link to comment
TMedina Posted January 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 I say no, but let me qualify - the plastic and newspaper and cardboard and what all else go into a large blue trashcan. So I imagine they *could* rummage through that big thing, but I kind of doubt it. The smaller, yellow bins for glass - they might go through because it's an easy inspection to see if it all qualifies or not, but I don't know if they actually do it. Now, homeless folks will sometimes go down the street and help themselves to choice recycling before the company comes through - I had one enterprising soul come up to the porch to help himself. That was strongly discouraged. Quote Imaginary Human Male Dilettante Trainer, Level 1 Spoiler How to: Add the status bar to my signature How to: Spruce up your profile Where to start: General Fitness questions How to: Declutter your life, a minimalism thread How to: Slay your budgeting woes (or at least, start the quest) Link to comment
mightstone2k Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 An interesting article on minimalism from AoM today:http://www.artofmanliness.com/2015/01/21/how-to-travel-around-the-world-with-just-a-20lb-backpack/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArtOfManliness+%28The+Art+of+Manliness%29 3 Quote Battle Log Lifetime Training Goals 2017 Goals Dovie'andi se tovya sagain. Avatar courtesy of Starpuck Link to comment
TMedina Posted January 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 Very cool. It reminds me of the "One Bag" website: http://www.onebag.com/ And Rick Steves' travel philosophy - although he doesn't tout it specifically: https://www.ricksteves.com/travel-tips/packing-light/packing-smart Of course, the trick is realizing this is possible in every day life as well. Or so I keep telling myself. 1 Quote Imaginary Human Male Dilettante Trainer, Level 1 Spoiler How to: Add the status bar to my signature How to: Spruce up your profile Where to start: General Fitness questions How to: Declutter your life, a minimalism thread How to: Slay your budgeting woes (or at least, start the quest) Link to comment
Dradis Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 I can't pack for a 5 day trip to America in one bag. I'm currently hanging my head in shame 1 Quote Current challenge: http://rebellion.nerdfitness.com/index.php?/topic/70839-bendy-dradis-stands-up-proper/ Link to comment
TMedina Posted January 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 To be fair, you have pressing concerns that can't really be addressed by someone merely passing through a life experience. Different standards apply. Quote Imaginary Human Male Dilettante Trainer, Level 1 Spoiler How to: Add the status bar to my signature How to: Spruce up your profile Where to start: General Fitness questions How to: Declutter your life, a minimalism thread How to: Slay your budgeting woes (or at least, start the quest) Link to comment
fleaball Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 Wow. I know I always pack too much for trips but that is a serious achievement right there. 2 Quote Level 69 Battle Kitten Battle Log | Current Challenge MyFitnessPal | Fitbit | Duolingo Ici je vis la vie que j'ai choisie Je suis partie pour reconstruire ma vie C'est dit, c'est ainsi Link to comment
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