Data Dump: Compacting, Purging and Simplifying Your Life
Here’s some links on Compacting, Purging and Simplifying Your Life…
The Compacting Committment - Meg talks about the compacting commitment and looks at it from a Christian perspective.
Room to Breathe - Amy talks about how she simplifies her life by purging out extra toys and clothes. Wash them more, but have less makes it so it doesn’t get out of control, or so she says.
Steve Pavlina writes:
There are a few rules that have served me well whenever I go through a purge cycle:
1. When in doubt, throw it out.
2. Ask, “What would be the worst-case outcome if I threw this item out by mistake?” If the answer is little or nothing, throw it out.
3. Could someone else benefit from this item more than I would?
Liss76 is purging this year, and keeping track of the amount in pounds!
Annie recommends having a toy garage sale for your children. They are much better at choosing what toys they really want than you think, and if you have older children let them know that they can pocket the profits.
Carol Keller talks about organizing one’s kitchen. Simply put, check out your current needs, weed out those things that are seldom used, throw out the things that don’t work.
airforcewife did something I don’t recommend, but understand. She purged while the husband was away because he wouldn’t. But she had the following advice that’s golden:
If you haven’t worn the clothes in the last two years, you do not need them (this is mainly a guideline for me). Pieces of fence chain from 1992 are really not necessary. And just how many stuffed animals are necessary for my kids’ survival? Apparently in excess of five thousand. Anything over that number and I send it to Goodwill.
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Some stories are just too good to pass up, and yet as time passes it’s hard to remember what you wanted to say and yet there is so much more things to say!
So here’s some brief information of articles that I found interesting. They’re taken across the spectrum of what we talk about here at MInTheGap. I’ll take a quote from the site and also talk about my opinion of what is being presented. We’ll do this as a new series as a way to get the latest on what I think on all these different matters.
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1.  Girl’s Body Found in Neighbor’s Basement
It’s a tragedy– a child was kidnapped, but far from it being some random person that took her, it was a neighbor, and she died shortly after capture. For five days people searched for her, only to find her next door. No matter how much we worry about the unknown, it may be the known that is the most dangerous.
2. The Terri Schaivo Injustice Will Not Go Away
The nurse that testified in favor of Terri’s Amendment back when they were trying to save Terri Schiavo from death by starvation/dehydration has had her license to practice nursing in Florida pulled because of the public stand she took.
3. We’re Getting the Insurgents
There’s continuous news from Iraq that the Insurgents are not winning– contrary to what the “drive by media” (Rush Limbaugh) want you to believe.
4. A Tragic Accident
A mother came back to pick up her baby at day care, only to realize that she had left the baby in the car all day. The baby was dead. This tragic tale shows that parents are getting too busy and need to rethink their prirorities.
5. Spiderman Outs Himself to The Press
Peter Parker decides to comply with a mandatory revealing of superhero secret identites as the comic books tackle some of the issues facing the United States in a war on terrorism. The whole concept talks to the idea of knowing who your friends are and having information.
6. Is this really 11 Million Years Old?
I find it pretty interesting every time one of these types of things are found. Scientists found an animal that they believed was extinct for 11 Million Years! It goes to show you once again that things haven’t changed over time– they were created by a wise omnipotent Creator.
7.  Ken Jennings Has a Sense of Humor
The man who wowed everyone with his prowess at Jeapordy! and brought renewed interest to the show when they changed the rules to let a winnder keep on going wrote some things on a website in a tounge-in-cheek fashion that some said was deragatory to the show that made him famous but he said was all in fun.
8. U.S. Soldiers are not Guilty Before a Verdict
Just because an American citizens are on the battlefield does not mean they forfeit their rights to be innocent until proven guilty. However, this seems to be what the media and others want as they jump to assign blame and choose sides when not all the facts are known.
9. Does The Fact That Tou are Breast Feeding Make it ok to Display One?
The cover of Baby Talk magazine has a picture of a baby sucking on a breast– and it has many people in the U.S. up in arms. It’s certainly something we try to be private about, even when being in public, but should it be such a bad thing?
10. Women Never Lie About Rape
Vox Day addresses the idea that women never lie about rape. Point blank– women cry rape for a lot of reasons– most of which is because the public is disposed to believe them and that the public believes it’s detestable. Now, is it always true that it was rape, and not consensual? A good reason to only have physical relations with your wife.
11. Robin Williams Battles the Bottle
Robin Williams has checked himself into rehab because he’s again addicted to alcohol. Nothing ruins relationships, family, and lives like the stuff– something that should be avoided! God commands us to be filled with the spirit instead of the bottle!
12. David Copperfield Says that He’s Found the Fountain of Youth
Now available at Walgreens for $9.99 an ounce!
13.  Know when to wear ‘em, know when to bare ‘em…
As if gambling wasn’t bad enough, what started as a gag has turned into an actual game. The UK is about to have its first official strip poker championship. The winner gets a golden fig leaf (reminiscent of Adam and Eve?). Next thing you know they’ll add a Russian Roulette segment or something just to have more sin present (since it’s taking place in a bar, after all).
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Friday Data Dump
A circumhorizontal arc was in the sky over Idaho on June 19th, lighting it up like a rainbow. This phenomenon is caused by ice crystals in the sky that bend the suns rays similar to a prism.
Maggie Gallagher takes a look into the statistics around fathers and how involved they are with their children. There are many out there that do not have a father they can count on, and this has a big imact on children.
A photo of a young lady in a yearbook caused quite a stir. The photo was taken of a girl in a skirt sitting on a desk during a play, and the picture showed a bit of underwear. So, the school took action and removed the page from the book and will be replacing it with another. Was the girl embarassed? This wouldn’t have happened if skirts were a little longer!
I’m waiting for the government to step in and mandate a wage scale for us that get paid more than minimum wage. I mean, they keep inflating the dollar, and making my salary look smaller and smaller compared to those doing less skilled occupations. Pretty soon, those with multiple years of experience will be making the same money as high schoolers flipping burgers.
And why shouldn’t it cause alarm? For some time now, New York has been one of the highest taxed, most regulated states in the land. Those that are born and raised up there leave for higher paying, less taxed jobs elsewhere. Some upstate counties pay close to 10% sales tax! And that’s what the NY Times says is the worry, the tax base. Well, let’s be bright, and keep raising the taxes to get more money in– that’ll do the trick.
Tuesday Data Dump
Jill Stanek suggests that the biggest problem that pro-abortionists will have revolves around when a pregnancy is terminated. The problem is that pro-abortionists define pregnancy as when the baby is in the uterus– not getting there (which is how they can say that it’s not an abortion because there is no pregnancy) and yet want an abortion that delivers the baby out of the uterus allowed. The problem is location and inconsistancy– you’ll get the entire picture in her article.
A priest in Rome got tired of having young ladies baring their midriff in church and made this great statement: “God knew what your navel looked like even before you were born, so there is no need to expose it in church.” This sign is displayed at his church.
Of course, this law doesn’t go into action until the Supreme Court lets the states decide abortion. ” Under the
measure, doctors found guilty of performing abortions would face up to
10 years in prison and fines of $100,000.” The only exception is to save the life of the mother.
The American Princess discusses Homosexual marriage, and why it may not be in our best interest to pursue our biggest stick right away. There’s a bunch of reasons that they list, but the one that I think needs highlighting is that we need to help enact this through society, not the courts. Change hearts not mandate it. In the end, if we mandate it, it’s possible that it could be repealed.
Thursday Data Dump
A film created with the intent to share the Gospel of Christ entitled “Facing the Giants” may have too Christian of a focus to get a G rating, so the MPAA stamped a PG rating on it suggesting that parents might want to guide their children on whether to see it. This would not have happened multiple years ago, but is this political correctness run amok?
This kind of talk usually follows someone losing a presidential race. This is a tad bit early for that! This totally hurts small state influence and would take a Constitutional Amendment to change. The electoral college is in there just like the senate– to give at least some votes to smaller states so they can make a difference. If it were gone, I doubt you’d see much campaigning in what are now the battleground states!
A survey went out to the students in a Milwakee high school asking, “If you have never slept with someone of your same gender, then how do you know you wouldn’t prefer it?” As you can imagine, parents were outraged and the school system vowed that that particular survey wouldn’t go out again. I mean, how repulsive is that question!? The survey goes on to place heterosexuality
in an alternate light asking questions like “when did you first realize you were a heterosexual” and things that continue to erode the abnormality of homosexuality.
This comedy piece is definitely worth a read. It pokes fun at the Iranian president by writing what he could have written from the point of view he would have if he only watched American television.
This is a strange one. Patients who have contracted this illness have sweat that’s black and tarry. The can get lesions that never heal. Some of these lesions can have fibers grow out of them in different colors. The disease is named Morgellon’s disease and there is actually research out there suggesting that I’m not making this up. Take a read, and do some research– this could be the leopersy of our time!
Tuesday Data Dump
This is the first of Tuesday/Thursday specials in which I give you a link and a brief take on some articles that I’ve read that interested me. This is in place of the multiple articles that I would link to and then give commentary. I’m trying things this way because I think that you’d rather read something original than constantly reading other people’s news here, but I also want to continue to provide you with links that interest me. The other reason to do it this way is that I have a tremendous backlog of articles that interest me, and if I have to write something on all of them they won’t be news by then! I’d rather give you current news than three months ago. So, without further ado, the first Tuesday Data Dump.
Our first stop takes us to an article that has an interesting twist. It appears that adults created some kind of “Mosquito” sound that was supposed to drive away teens but not be heard by adults. This took advantage of the fact that as we age we cannot hear as high of a pitch. Students, on the other hand, now use that sound to
send text messages to each other during school– ingenious, aren’t they?
Vox takes an agnostic to task for a very basic reason– agnostics can claim that they are moral people (as for that matter can atheists) but what they are really doing is comparing themselves to morals that are set up by the religious area into which they are born. They are not creating a morality from the ground up, but picking and choosing a morality from the ground up.
Vox makes a compelling point about where our society is headed in this post. He starts by referring to a story in England where people in airplane terminals coming off of airplanes can participate in a slave market for women. He states that Christianity is a glue that binds society together. Pointing to the advent of Protestant Christianity as the end of slavery, he goes back to history to draw the conclusion that should a society turn from Christianity you can expect to see more slavery.
Iraq the Model, a blog from Iraq, points to the different reactions to the death of Abu Al Zarqauwi in this Wall Street Journal article. He points out that Hamas and those that have nothing to gain by Iraq call him a martyr, while those in Iraq consider it a major victory one. He then challenges the reader to side with those that are civilized and appalled by the terrorists or to side with the terrorists.
The Conservative Mind Cleaner uses a comic strip to illustrate the absurdity of abortion. In this comic, a woman that supports post birth abortion is interviewed, and continues to support it until her mother calls saying that she hasn’t called in the last week, and that she will be aborted. The point of the comic being, at what point does any child stop being a responsibility and to some extent a job for the parent, and why stop a parent from aborting at any time (even after birth) when the child is going to be too much trouble?
More from the “why are you still sending your children to public school instead of homeschooling” file. Two teachers including the one at the left were caught engaging in consensual yet private activity in a locked classroom by students who were peering through the window. When confronted, the man involved did not even admit that he did anything wrong until the woman did. Both were suspended. Why is this kind of thing able to go on in the school– I mean, we have enough problems with what the teens are doing, and what teens and teachers are doing, but what are teachers thinking when they engage in this kind of activity (adding to it that they were not married to each other!) in the classroom in school while it’s in session let alone at all!
This woman was on waiting trial on indecent exposure and lewdness charges when she decided to throw a party for children under 16. At that party she provided alcohol and had sex with two adolescents. Let this be a wakeup call for some of you. Do you know where your children are? Do you keep tabs on who is throwing parties and what will be happening there? We can no longer just trust that parties are like we remember them.
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