304 things on the first day!  Not too bad.  Not familiar with the challenge?

Here are a few rules I made along the way.  What?  If I try to define everything up front, I’ll never start it.

• Like things count as one.  I had a few lots of things that I didn’t count individually like tea bags, papers and such.
• Sporadic photos.  I didn’t photograph everything.  No time for that.  This challenge is not really to see how fast I can get rid of 1,001 things, but no new things until I get rid of that many.
• Groceries and toiletries don’t count.  We can buy these things, as we need to live and I don’t want CPS taking my kids away.

Here’s the list of what I got rid of today:

• 52 books and CDs
• 23 pieces of women’s clothing
• 1 pile of school papers
• 36 pieces of boy’s clothing
• 22 kids’ books
• 2 rescued DVDs
• 17 books
• 14 kitchen items
• 2 sour cream containers
• 3 coffee mugs
• 1 lot of tea bags
• 2 plastic bags
• 4 towels
• 3 halloween makeup tubes
• 1 backpack
• 1 bag of almonds
• 45 junk drawer items
• 46 junk bin items
• 29 toys

Weird facts about the stuff

• The 52 books and CDs were given to me to get rid of.  I made $8 selling them at Half Price Books.
• A resale shop bought a couple pieces of clothing and I made $10.
• Our family eats a lot of sour cream.  I reuse the containers, but I have over 12 of them.
• The 2 plastic bags were given to me.  We only use reusable bags.
• The towels
  are bath towels.  I’m sick of picking them up after my kids.  Less towels = less to pick up.
• The backpack is new.  I have no idea where it came from.  His dad’s house?
• The almonds I used up to make almond milk.
• Junk bin items are the 6 small baskets (a.k.a. toy boxes) on my kitchen table.

Difficulty level: Easy

The only thing I had trouble going through is my books.  I’m a book hoarder.  I have a wall made of books.  I don’t like to get rid of them.

I’m ready to get rid of more.  I’ll be putting a big box of stuff on Freecycle.

304 down, 697 to go.