{"id":208,"date":"2009-05-29T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/hungerrumblings\/2009\/05\/29\/staring-down-the-stuff-deadline\/"},"modified":"2009-05-29T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T16:05:00","slug":"staring-down-the-stuff-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worldhunger\/staring-down-the-stuff-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Staring down the stuff deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms\">Have you held a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freecycle.net\/\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms\">freecycle<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms\"> yet? The one I held in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/hungerrumblings\/labels\/freecycle.html\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms\">April<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms\"> helped pare down my belongings in advance of my move. But now the realtor says I have to make my place look like a catalog spread\u2014spare, spare, spare. And my 1200 books? \u201cJust keep the pretty ones,\u201d she said. (Oh, how that hurt!)<\/p>\n<p>More stuff has to go\u2014at least into storage, if not into someone else\u2019s hands. That means more decisions. Giving the office table to my church for its basement dinners is easy. Debating whether to keep or release the extra set of plates and flatware for 24 is tougher. And what about those old Legos?<\/p>\n<p>I have one week. <em>One week.<\/em> On the other side of this intense discernment I hope to find freedom\u2014freedom from too much stuff; freedom of moving closer to a clear sense of what\u2019s enough, for this life stage and the next.<br \/> <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms\">Anne Basye<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you held a freecycle yet? 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