{"id":3242,"date":"2022-01-10T07:17:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T12:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2022-01-10T11:02:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T16:02:13","slug":"altered-horizons-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/altered-horizons-34\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Horizons 34"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/StuffPost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3243 size-large\" title=\"Altered Horizons 34 Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, uses Photoshop to create a landscape of junk to illustrate the need for decluttering.\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/StuffPost-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Altered Horizons 34 Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, uses Photoshop to create a landscape of junk to illustrate the need for decluttering.\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" data-popupalt-original-title=\"null\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/StuffPost-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/StuffPost-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/StuffPost-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/StuffPost-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/StuffPost-624x936.jpg 624w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/StuffPost.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It\u2019s Decluttering Time again: time to unload my home of accumulated stuff. The longer I live, the more I shop, and inherit, and acquire. It piles up quickly, unnoticeable at first as the newly cleared closets and shelves easily accommodate incoming treasure. Every third or fourth winter though, when the ice and cold keep me in the house for long stretches of time, I start noticing how the stuff starts dripping from every crammed corner. Some folks do an annual Spring Cleaning. But once I begin noticing this excessive acquisition of possessions, even in the harshest, most inconvenient and dismal season, I have to purge the place\u2014pronto\u2014before it can bury me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">At Upstate Shredding in Owego, NY, there were different landscapes everywhere I looked as mountains of sorted junk were being shredded, cleaned and sold to foundries and mills all around the world, to be reprocessed and made into new products. More stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Altered Horizons 34<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s Decluttering Time again: time to unload my home of accumulated stuff. The longer I live, the more I shop, and inherit, and acquire. It piles up quickly, unnoticeable at first as the newly cleared closets and shelves easily accommodate incoming treasure. Every third or fourth winter though, when the ice and cold keep me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[438,705,837,1035,2345],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-h","tag-coping-with-loss","tag-dealing-with-depression","tag-decluttering","tag-hoarding","tag-too-much-junk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}