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Friday, February 5, 2010

Throw out 50 Things

I saw this book at the library and was intrigued!  What were these 50 things that i could live without?  Turns out the philosophy is to go in each room of your house and find 50 things you can throw away or recycle!  Darn, i was hoping for a list LOL!

I love to purge (and Snuffy is a pack rat - how the heck did we end up together LOL) but I thought this might be a challenge for me to take on!  Could I even find 50 things to throw out? The catch is that you can only take 2 weeks to do it AND you can only count things in one category once.  For example, if you throw out 30 magazines it is only one thing = magazines! You are also supposed to write down each thing you throw out so you see your accomplishment later!

Welllllllllllll, I am SO glad i decided to take on this challenge because I discovered we had a major leak in our sink and it had filled up our humidifier and was slowly spilling over! See the wet spot:

So here is #1 - 10:
1. Potions and Lotions - I have so many of these and some i couldn't even recall buying.  One was even sweating.............inside the jar!!! ICK!!!
2. Medicine - ok, so it surprised me how much expired stuff we had but it was no problem throwing it out!

3. Books - into Skylers room and I found some books to recycle.  Yup, by the time we're finished with them no one else wants em they are chewed, torn and generally missing pages.

4. Christmas cards - the hand made ones i kept but the store bought ones I recycled!

5. The girl's artwork - I keep it all year long and then sort out my faves at the end of the year and throw the rest out (otherwise we'd have a filing cabinet full already)

6. An old flashlight that doesn't work.

7. Lots of kitchen stuff - grater, peeler, knife etc.

8. Food - yup, some food for the food bank!

9. Empty DVD cases - i have no idea why i was keeping these.

10. Linens - ratty old ones that we never use!

I'll update when I find more things to throw out!  I can hear the clock ticking ........  Do you need to throw out 50 things?

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