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 etcetera.
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?
Laterg8r
