One-Zero-Zero

A while back I read this blog post by the exquisite Crystal B, and while I didn't read the book that was referenced, and I think I have the opposite idea of what it was about, it inspired my inner neat-freak.  (And by inner neat-freak I mean INNER.  As in, may have only made an outward appearance once and not since I've had children.)

I decided to get rid of 100 things during the month of July.  Throw away, donate - whatever - I just want 100 things out of my house.  

I just got started today, July 12th, so yes, it is apparent that I also need to make goals regarding my procrastination.  

I started in the bathroom, getting rid of:

• 6 bottles of Bath and Body works lotion/body spray that I decided I can't use because while I love my mother in law, it's creepy for me to smell like her.  Creepy for my husband, at least.
• One old computer printer.  A huge one.
• Cameron's old glasses that I held on to knowing that he would break the others and we'd need a back up.  I'm sure that it's because I thought ahead and saved them that we have never needed them.
• The electric razor that I bought Andrew for Christmas something like two years ago that he used once, declared garbage and stuck in a drawer to gather dust.
• One nose hair trimmer, which, needed or not, is never going to get used.

So the grand total for day one is TEN things.  Ten things gone in one day.  I realize that doesn't sound like much, but think of it like this:  Keeping the current speed with which I am willing to toss unwanted garbage from my life, I could be done with this challenge in nine more days. Which leaves me thinking that maybe 100 things is not enough...

Now.  Just between you and me, I brought sixteen new things into my house yesterday.  Does this off-set my progress today and leave me at having discarded a negative six items?

Does the fact that they were all vintage (read *used*) books make it better? 

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