100-item challenge

I was told about the 100-item challenge from a friend who knew a couple who did just this. Sold/got rid of everything and bought a streamline trailer to live.

Since I’m about to live out of a backpack for over a year, I decided that this culling would have to be done in stages:

1. Get rid of all clothes that don’t fit. (why keep them? They don’t fit now. They certainly won’t fit later, and if they do- I won’t be interested in them later.)
2. Start consolidating all papers/tax crap/music/DVDs etc and scanning/ripping them so they fit on a harddrive. (I consider 1 harddrive to be 1 item.) sell hard-copies of DVDs and CDs.
3. Only have 3 pairs of shoes. (I consider a pair of shoes to be 1 item… because 1 shoe is kinda useless by itself). I’m not much of a shoe-girl, but I will have 1 pair of flip-flops/sandals, 1 pair of vibrams, 1 pair of sneakers. When I went to Australia, I got a pair of UGGs, and these have been RADSAUCE in harsh winters.
4. Sell my bed, car, computer and other big-ticket items that I won’t need for/in a year.
5. Get used to bar-conditioner (as opposed to liquid) (I have curly hair– and I’m picky about my products. I usually just use conditioner (no shampoo). This is actually pretty awesome the more you use it.

The next few steps will be harder…. Get rid of all the items that give me memories.

• The sweatshirt that I got from Woodstock ’99.
• The handmade picture frame from when I got my first tattoo.
• My snoopy pajama pants that I’ve worn every xmas since I was 19. (yes, they still fit!)
• My xbox/kinect/all my games.

Want to clean house? Want to live simpler? Tired of all the crap piling up in your house? THIS ADVICE IS FOR *YOU*!

1. Take a box, label it with today’s date- a year from now.
2. Write above it “if not opened by: “
3. Put a bunch of items in it that you don’t think you’ll miss.
4. Rinse and repeat.

“No one said this would be easy… They said it would be worth it.”

What are your “clean house” tips?