{"id":185,"date":"2007-09-25T20:48:50","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T00:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2007-09-25T20:52:06","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T00:52:06","slug":"and-never-give-it-more-than-a-frowning-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/25\/and-never-give-it-more-than-a-frowning-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"and never give it more than a frowning hour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately I’ve had the nearly overwhelming urge to get rid of lots of stuff from our apartment. Between the big purge I did at the beginning of this year<\/a> and our last stoop sale<\/a> we are running pretty lean + mean here at mauraweb! HQ. But like everything else, it could be better. Sometimes I daydream about the eXtreme minimalism that would be possible living in a studio (or one of those very small houses<\/a> I love so much). And wouldn’t it be easy to keep it clean?<\/p>\n

Part of the problem is that I recently read a bunch of posts on 43 Folders called My War on Clutter<\/a>. As I read through these posts I couldn’t help thinking how much stuff we still have that we don’t use, things that could still go. Sometimes it’s stuff we can’t even see: old CDs I’ll never listen to again, unused art supplies (why do I seem to have so many boxes of crayons? From COLLEGE?!), etc.<\/p>\n

Of course, once the things are reviewed and decisions are made, there’s the hurdle of actually getting it out of the apartment. I have used Freecycle<\/a>, but you have to be home for people to get stuff, sometimes they flake, etc. What I wish is that we had a monthly Really Really Free Market<\/a> (essentially a huge free swap meet) the way they do in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

I got to 43 Folders from No Impact Man, which I am not going to link to because you can use your own google-fu to find it easily. Also because I am trying (so far unsuccessfully) to stop reading that blog. It makes me feel guilty about taking the subway and using the washing machine. When really I should be all, hey, I could<\/i> be driving and using the dryer!<\/p>\n

I have a love\/hate relationship with ecoblogs. Right now they are my preferred source for interwebs distraction\/procrastination surfing. But when I read about all the eco stuff others are doing I tend to get bogged down in all kinds of coulds + shoulds and then I feel bad. Which is silly, because we are doing a pretty decent job in my household of avoiding plastic, conserving energy, wasting not, etc. So yay for us, we rock!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lately I’ve had the nearly overwhelming urge to get rid of lots of stuff from our apartment. Between the big purge I did at the beginning of this year and our last stoop sale we are running pretty lean + mean here at mauraweb! HQ. But like everything else, it could be better. Sometimes I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}