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Post by peppermint66 on Jan 24, 2010 18:50:27 GMT -5
I am signed up at another forum to try and toss 2010 things in this year. I thought it might be fun to issue a challenge to anyone here that would like to try. I figured out that if you started today and tossed 6 things a day, you would reach that goal of 2010 a day and a half early and could celebrate the NEXT NEW YEAR with a lot less stuff.
I have been keeping a running tally in a little notebook for the other forum, but I will post STARTING today in this forum.
January 24 3 butter dish lids, butter dishes nowhere to be found
2 onesies too small for growing boy
1 handful of grocery store receipts from my purse
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Post by serenitynow on Jan 24, 2010 21:50:16 GMT -5
 peppermint! Just out of curiosity, what other forum is it? A clutter busting one? A goal one? serenitynow
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Post by peppermint66 on Jan 24, 2010 22:31:54 GMT -5
Actually, its a forum set up for people looking to live a simpler or more self sufficient lifestyle. They have sections for home, food, money, lots of diverse categories. It is a place I stumbled upon several years ago, but was not in a place in my life where I felt i was ready to make some of the changes they talk about there.
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Post by sparkle on Jan 24, 2010 23:41:45 GMT -5
not counting what I've done before or what I will do after posting this, I have tossed 6 lipsticks, 5 other miscellaneous beauty gadgets, 2 almost empty beautiful glass spray cologne bottles, a frosted glass vase/votive that is beautiful but I don't need it, 2 small bags of trash, and a big bag of recycling ready to go out the door. that's 16 things, right there. thanks for posting this pepe.
1994 and counting.
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Post by andrea on Jan 25, 2010 11:03:06 GMT -5
Peppermint thank you for posting this and I will definitely join you in getting rid of 2010 things this year. I will start with the things that went out yesterday. I was able to get rid of 12 bags of items and an ottoman. I was also able to throw out 3 bags of trash and my recycling which means I have 1993 to go.
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Post by momof3boys on Jan 25, 2010 13:16:45 GMT -5
I think I threw away 6 sports drink bottles.
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Post by peppermint66 on Jan 25, 2010 23:30:45 GMT -5
Today these things got tossed or got put out of the house:
2 3 yr overdue library books
2 empty pill bottles
14 pieces of paper, junk mail
7 loads worth of laundry lint!
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Post by andrea on Jan 27, 2010 3:00:43 GMT -5
Yesterday I was able to get rid of 3 trash bags and 15 puzzles. Today I was able to get rid of 2 trash bags and 6 boxes of items.
That brings my count down to 1937.
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Post by lostagain on Jan 27, 2010 8:05:54 GMT -5
What a great challenge!! I will try to join you.
Yesterday threw out - 2 bags of cat litter one bag of regular trash (kitchen trash) - so I'll just count three things for now.
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Post by Rory on Jan 27, 2010 15:17:28 GMT -5
I was thinking that I did not have that many things to throw out anymore. Then I remembered that the last thing I threw out was a jar containing several hundred nails, screws etc so that means that I threw away several hundred things a few days ago. I am very proud of myself.
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Post by sparkle on Jan 27, 2010 15:22:48 GMT -5
Last two days I got rid of 22 items, bags of trash, toiletries, kitchen junk, that sort of stuff. I have advantage over Rory. I have lots of stuff since I'm just beginning to dig out. Having a rough day today, but it's not over yet. Can certainly throw out a few things before the day is done.
1974 so far ...
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Post by mafixit on Jan 27, 2010 15:35:29 GMT -5
I got rid of two bags of trash that were sitting by the front door for a couple of weeks, 2 boxes of pizza, 2 empty soda bottles, and 3 small bags of cat litter. I love this challenge, thanks for starting it.
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Post by hopehope on Jan 27, 2010 23:45:55 GMT -5
I'm posting recents: the empty bottle from some seriously bad sparkling apple raspberry juice. And -- an old paperback of short stories containing a fantastic masterwork by Faulkner -- the pages fell apart in yr fingers whenever you touched it. It was in pieces. And I sent back one of the nonworking phones. And returned a book and cd I cldn't renew. And the sun ny times mag. Hmm. The list is growing.
Three recently acquired mascaras that were dead. The moldy bagels and English muffins, and all the chicken. Geesh, who knew?
The dead irises are in a brown bag, ready to leave.
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Post by andrea on Jan 28, 2010 1:59:33 GMT -5
Update on what I was ale to get rid of 1/27:
5 bags of items, 75 movies, one large desk and 2 bags of trash. That will put my count at 1850.
I am glad to see all the other people that are joining in on this challenge.
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Post by peppermint66 on Jan 28, 2010 12:25:27 GMT -5
Im so encouraged that people are finding this challenge and participating!
Rory-- its amazing how even when we think we are 'done' ,life has a way of filling our handbags with scraps of paper, our glove boxes with drive thru napkins and ketchup packets and random jars full of screws or nails or the like! yay on you for tossing !
Ande-- WOWZERS! you are going great guns! Things are only gonna get better from here!
lostagain--so so glad you can join us! good on you for getting rid of cat litter and trashez! the darn trash accumulates so fast. Stay on top of it and keep posting!
Hope--And you didnt think you had much that you could toss and then bam! there you go!
wg-- yay yay yay!! EVEN ON BAD DAYS you are still looking at things in a positive light. you CAN toss 6 little things, and make a difference!
Im so so proud ofeach and every person that just starts somewhere. The starting is the first big scary step to a brighter , better way of life!
on the 27th I packed up 27 articles of baby clothes that do not fit anymore. The baby is growing like a weed!!
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