Update #5 - 100 Thing Challenge Gets Practical

If you've heard me say it once, you've heard me say it - oh, I don't know - two times?  Getting rid of stuff is the hardest part of the 100 Thing Challenge.  I'm estimating I've been living weekly on only about 60-63 of the 100 personal items I'm keeping.  You'd think getting rid of that huge list of stuff I'm, er, getting rid of would be a snap.  Not so.

When I first started the 100 Thing Challenge I had noble ideas that went way beyond the practical.  Not only would I get rid of the dozens and hundreds of unnecessary things I've accumulated over the years, but I'd get rid of all of it in style.  My plan was to pull in extra family income through eBay and garage sales.  And what I donated was going to go to specific charities - the shoes to a shoe charity, the clothes to a clothes charity, the toys to a toy charity, the electronic gadgets to an electronic gadgets charity.

Um, can you say AMVETS?  Today the AMVETS truck is suppose to drive up to our house and haul a huge load of stuff away.  We like AMVETS.  In addition to being what appears to be a good charity, they also come by the house and pick stuff up.  They drive BIG trucks.  So they can pick up our BIG pile of cra stuff.

So today the 100 Thing Challenge lost a little bit of its innocence.  Pragmatism beat out ideology.  But let me assure you that once I don't have so much stuff interfering with my life, I plan to jump headlong into the theoretical.

Comments

[Nina Ruth]

Ummm... "pragmatism" is my MIDDLE NAME!!!
;-)

[Siel]

Getting rid of stuff can certainly be time consuming.... I try to do it in v. small bits so as to make it manageable, but there's nothing wrong with the one-truck-to-charity thing either :)