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October 4, 2025
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What’s in your junk drawer?

If you dumped everything out of your junk drawers into a big plastic storage bin, stored the bin in the barn and pulled it out three years later, what would you find? If you look at this picture closely, you too could play seek and find with me. Unfortunately, the box must’ve sat and gathered […]

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Purging is Okay but Preserving is Okay Too

I know, I know! Purging is cleansing. I agree up to a point. Reminiscing is cleansing as well. Hubby Dan and I have lost all four of our parents. With neither of us having moved during our childhoods, our attic and storage areas held tons of cool and not so cool items. His parents’ belongings […]

April 14, 2021
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We’re Stuck Like Goo

By Lisa Batten Kunkleman Looking at the yellowed pages of our wedding album, I knew it had to go. The album, not the photos. Trying to slip the eight-by-ten photos from each sleeve didn’t work. In frustration, I tried separating the yellowed and crinkly plastic from the white edging and found that it was a […]