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<\/p>\nWell. I promised I wouldn\u2019t bore you with all the different categories. But how else am I going to explain this photo?<\/p>\n
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And then there is the category of Pens I LOVE but that need refills. [See future post, Can you even buy pen refills anymore?<\/em>]<\/p>\n Besides the black ink pens, I\u2019ve got blue pens, red pens and green pens. You can\u2019t go rummaging through eight million pens and try them all out every time you need a different color ink. [I\u2019m trying to simplify my life, remember?<\/em>]<\/p>\n Then I\u2019ve got some little short pens that you can tuck into alternate nooks and crannies if you lack the right kind of pockets. [See future post, Selecting clothing with adequate pocketry.<\/em>] And don’t forget about fat pens and thin pens.<\/p>\n In addition, among all these pens I found magic markers and highlighters [see future post, The shelf-life of markers and their proper storage for maximizing usability<\/em>]; and art crayon-pens; and even a few pencils — needing to be transferred over to that collection. [See future posts, The proper sorting and care of pencils; Reviews of different pencil brands; Review of book about the history of the pencil; Selecting the best pencil for the job at hand<\/em>; plus my extensive pencil photo essays, and more.]<\/p>\n Note the myriad complicated moral dilemmas that come up when trying to execute the seemingly simple act of getting rid of a few items. See? I can\u2019t be both a packrat and a responsible steward of the planet at the same time. The two can\u2019t live harmoniously within the same person. My poor conflicted brain gets so tired having to think all this through. I ain\u2019t doing this when I\u2019m ninety.<\/p>\n Hence my eternal mantra: Just Say No to More Stuff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well. I promised I wouldn\u2019t bore you with all the different categories. But how else am I going to explain this photo? The wastebasket, as you might guess, contains the pens destined for the recycling center. [See future post, Can pens be recycled?]Then I have the pens I\u2019m giving to the school children. [See future […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}