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1,001 Challenge: Day 2 – 249

Jan 25, 2014 | 1001 Item Purge

1001 purge day 2

249 items today.  Not as many as I was hoping to purge.  Getting to 1,001 items is a little more difficult than I thought it would be.   Not familiar with the challenge?

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Here’s the day two list:

  • Christmas ornaments purge1 retro green bowl
  • 5 water guns
  • 7 markers
  • 1 paint brush
  • 1 bottle of cologne
  • 17 pieces of boys clothing
  • 3 watches
  • 2 cereal toys
  • 13 toys
  • 9 glue sticks
  • 1 bunch of candy wrappers
  • 2 chargers
  • 1 cell phone case
  • 66 DVDs
  • 6 stitches
  • 4 CD cases
  • 4 Christmas stockings
  • 1 Santa hat
  • 66 handfuls of Christmas ornaments
  • Colored IKEA lights4 strands of IKEA lights
  • 2 umbrellas
  • 1 backback
  • 1 soap dish
  • 1 kids’ book
  • 2 floor cushions
  • 5 rescued books
  • 1 container of decaf coffee
  • 5 food items
  • 1 medicine cup
  • 1 plastic storage tub
  • 2 green bags
  • 11 pieces of women’s clothing
  • 1 bag of dog treats
  • 1 communion snack pack

Quirky facts about these items

  • The bottle of cologne is Polo.  It belongs to my son.  It’s a good thing he’s too cool to read my blog.  He’ll never know…
  • My kids are teens and they still open the cereal boxes to get the toys out before needing the cereal.
  • We have enough glue sticks to build an additional room onto our house.  I have 9 here, there were several yesterday included with a lot of stuff, and last night I found another stash.  Where did these come from???
  • Candy wrappers.  BUSTED!  If you get ants in your room, live with them.
  • So, the stitches came out of the cat’s leg.  The fact that I pulled them out and I’m counting them should say something about how difficult the remaining items will be.
  • The dog treats are not mine.  It’s easy to end up with other people’s stuff and forget to give it back.  Yazzie, I promise I’ll get your treats to you today.
  • Communion snack pack.  I can’t express in words how these hurt me.  Packaging and conceptually. [sigh]

The bottom line

I realized this process works well in getting rid of the little extra crap you have around the house.  I don’t have anything big to get rid of, but I do have lots of junk and things we’re just not using.  This is a good purge to do regularly to avoid “stuff creep,” although I wouldn’t make it 1,001 items each time.  Or should I?

553 down, 448 to go.