Week 2 definitely upped the difficulty (here is Week 1 btw), but it seems as though it is pretty easy to find things that we can part with. My partner is very much getting into it. She mentioned that this was a good forcing function. There were things she was going to get rid of ‘at some point’ and this has become that point. I feel like I should be taking photos of my drawers of crap before and after. It has really helped me find a way to incorporate decluttering items into my routine. Some items that just faded into the woodwork jump out, and I want to do something about it.
I think I have also had a couple people think that because I’m doing The Minimalist’s game that I’ve now become a ‘minimalist’, whatever that means. I wouldn’t call myself a minimalist, and I’ve never watched Mary Kondo. But there is finite space in my life for objects. And these objects can become a weight, and learning how to remove these things to make space for new ones, or just to make space really, is a skill learned by doing.
Full disclosure: A lot of these items were done in a larger decluttering because we are traveling out of town.
Day 8
- A bottle of super glue accelerator that sucks.
- Manual for our french fry cutter
- 5 lanyards for personal fans
- USB cable
Day 9
- Stomach medication from Puerto Rico
- Ear medication from San Carlos
- Old banged up thermos
- Swag Mug from work (thanks but i just don’t use ’em)
- A broken Miir 360, (i really liked this but gave up on it after the third warrenty repair)
- Broken power bank
- Another swag mug from work
- A broken thermostat-controlled outlet
- A broken bike light (burnt out led)
Day 10
- A bike battery frame I welded a while back that I no longer need.
- A shoe stretcher.
- A box for a Google Pixel 8a
- A box of masks I bought because I needed one.
- A belt toolholder
- A pair of mtb shoes (i prefer flats now)
- Beat up crocs
- Beat up slippers
- 2 pairs of kneepads
Day 11
- Pretty nasty comb.
- Some adver-sticker
- A 3d-printed phone stand.
- A pair of bluetooth headphones. (they work, I just prefer wired headphones)
- 6 pairs of random glasses.
Day 12
- A probably broken usb-c->a adapter
- 5 pens
- two lanyards
- a brass finished keyring
- a 3d printed cord holder
- a hearthstone key bottle opener
- two enamel pins
Day 13
Theme for today: trinkets given to me that I didn’t really want but were too polite to turn down. There is probably a word for this in German.
- Two scuba diver metal disc things (for your keychain i guess?)
- 5 stickers/patches for the locomotive Teamsters that the lady at the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum kept giving me.
- A button for the band Physical Wash
- More adverstickers, including 2 github adverstickers. The idea that I’d want to promote github seems more and more laughable.
Day 14
14 old checkbooks (now shredded). Some of these were, i kid you not, from 2012.
And that’s it for now! Tune in next week for more crap!