http://randomfodder.com/archives/2008/01/10/cleaning-house-progress/ . . . in a bag in the trunk of my car. Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:49:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://randomfodder.com/archives/2008/01/10/cleaning-house-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-164 Jule Ann Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:26:32 +0000 http://randomfodder.com/archives/2008/01/10/cleaning-house-progress/#comment-164 When I was a kid, we used to celebrate "Boxing Day" by boxing up old toys that we didn't play with very often anymore. It was the best time of year for such a purge, because we were so enamored with our new toys from Christmas the day before that we found it easy to put away old toys. Then, six months later, when we said we were bored, my mom would pull down one of the boxes of old toys to see if we wanted any of them back. Sometimes, we'd get all excited about old toys as if they were new again, and it was like Christmas in July. I suppose, but don't remember for sure, that some of the toys would just stay in the boxes indefinitely, because we had outgrown them. Anyhow, not a bad way of gradually phasing out some of the kids' toys. When I was a kid, we used to celebrate "Boxing Day" by boxing up old toys that we didn't play with very often anymore. It was the best time of year for such a purge, because we were so enamored with our new toys from Christmas the day before that we found it easy to put away old toys. Then, six months later, when we said we were bored, my mom would pull down one of the boxes of old toys to see if we wanted any of them back. Sometimes, we'd get all excited about old toys as if they were new again, and it was like Christmas in July. I suppose, but don't remember for sure, that some of the toys would just stay in the boxes indefinitely, because we had outgrown them. Anyhow, not a bad way of gradually phasing out some of the kids' toys.

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