{"id":1402,"date":"2025-04-08T09:15:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2025-04-08T09:15:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:15:52","slug":"living-out-of-my-pockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/living-out-of-my-pockets\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVING OUT OF MY POCKETS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The older I get the more stuff I throw away. Do I really need this tea cozy I got as a wedding gift in 1976? Or how about this huge plastic bag lof hooks and snaps that will come in handy someday? Or hey, looky here! A smashed open pinata from my daughter’s 7th birthday….she’s now 40. The thought that I would repurpose these things has instead fueled my car to Goodwill and not only cleared out my house but lifted is a weighty brain-clutter that has been dividing my thinking for some time now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently I purchased a beautiful new leather purse to lug around a bunch of stuff I don’t need. Nestled amongst the necessities, my wallet, sunglasses, phone, and keys were 2 bottles of hand sanitizer, note pads, a handful of almonds that had dropped to the bottom of the bag, several lipsticks that I thought I had lost and more. Much more. This made digging for what I do<\/em> need as difficult as searching the entire house looking for the Santa Clause suit that I forgot I gave away in the 90’s..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I’ve simplified. The few things that don’t fit in my pockets ride along with me in the front seat of my car giving me a bit more relief and an unencumbered\u00a0soul. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The older I get the more stuff I throw away. Do I really need this tea cozy I got as a wedding gift in 1976? Or how about this huge plastic bag lof hooks and snaps that will come in handy someday? Or hey, looky here! A smashed open pinata from my daughter’s 7th birthday….she’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[169,170,168,173,171,167,172],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-menopause","tag-cleaning","tag-clearingingoutjunk","tag-emptynesters","tag-freespirit","tag-goodwill","tag-janbrehm-com","tag-simplify"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}