30 days, 30 baskets

We have too much stuff. I don't know where it came from.

Okay, yes I do. Two people who lived 30 years on their own and then threw it all together in one house, creating duplicates of nearly everything. Two people who have an aesthetic appreciation for things. Probably too much appreciation. Shake-It Records. Playmobil. Three children and all those things that go with three children. Too many trips to Target and that strange Can't Leave the Register with Under $50 of Merchandise rule.

Anyway, I'm on a 30 day mission. For 30 days, I will fill a laundry basket full of stuff, and by the end of the day it will be in a bag, ready to exit my home for one of three destinations: 1) the dumpster, 2) the recycling, or 3) some charitable organization.

Please keep me accountable. (Although I'm headed out of town on Friday until Sunday, so I'm taking those days off.) Feel free to join me on my 30 day challenge if you, too, are buried under clutter.

Basket, Day 1:
– nearly a whole bag of trash from the kitchen counters (frightening)
– 10 Oprah magazines from 2004, which were randomly shoved in some bin in the basement
– a basket full of dog toys so old and gross I wouldn't let my own dogs play with them

Ahhh…that feels better.