Boxes

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I've been working on the boxes in my living room. I've found boxes containing magazines the easiest because I just dump them. (Mostly--I saved some from when Princess Diana died. That's how old some of this stuff is.) I found some SSSCAT cans, which emit a puff of air when they detect motion, and listed them on eBay. I found some other stuff that I want to get rid of, but aren't worth the time and effort to sell them on eBay, so maybe I'll list them for free on the local garage sale site. I've had bad luck with people from that site though. I'm determined, though, that this will be the year that I truly declutter. Having the boxes in my living room helps because I can't ignore them. I also found in one of my boxes the sci-fi book Stardance, by Spider Robinson and his wife, which I was going to get rid of, but then I started reading it. I think that I'm going to read it when I go to bed.

I forgot to mention that my mom subscribed me to Try the World, which is a subscription box that contains food from all over the world. I'm enjoying it immensely. I tried some puff pastry cookies from Morocco, a sort of muffin-type thing with raisins from Italy, some ginger snaps from Sweden, and some tea from the UK. The only down side is that if you like something, you can't necessarily find it to get more. I love the puff pastry cookies, which actually are a kind of French pastry (palmiers), so I'm trying to find out how to make them.

Added: I tried another Try the World win: pistachio cream spread from Italy. I put it on an English muffin, and it's like peanut butter, only more decadent. I think that you can buy it in Try the World's store, so I need to buy some. After all, nuts are good for you, right?

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Oh! Their store does have the cookies that I like!