2022 things out in 2022

 I have been trying to be a minimalist for the last few years.  I follow these minimalist groups on Facebook and have participated in their challenge to get rid of 2020 things in 2020. I didn't quite make the 2021 in 2021 .  This was my chart for last year.  I was short like 700 things.  But a better way to look at it is that I got rid of about 1400 items!  That is fabulous. It does give me a charge to get rid of stuff and then cross it off.  

This is my new chart for 2022.  I have already gotten rid of some stuff.  I got rid of some teacher files from my first few years of teaching.  Like I would ever need that again and if I did I would probably find something to buy that looks a lot better than what I had.  I also got rid of a plant project I made and NEVER used for teaching all these years.  GONE.  

As I have been in Target or Costco today, I have seen people with like 10 plastic bins in their carts. I want to whisper to them, just throw your HUD away.  That is TEN more bins of HUD you will have to store.  Get rid of it.  It is freeing to just throw stuff away.  However, I have toured the Landfill and it is totally disgraceful at the amount of TRASH that is there.  I mean it does make me think about throw away stuff. I hate paper plates and single use items because they just go over to the landfill and sit there and someone has to figure out what to do with all our waste because we are lazy people and want throw away.  I think about that all the time.  Every vacuum cleaner, washer, dryer, spoon, piece of plastic wrap, shoe, or shovel is sitting somewhere just going to sit forever and ever.  

Not sure what the solution is to that.  

Here's to 2022 and maybe bring in less junk so there is less junk out.

UPDATE:  I crossed off another hundred items after I decluttered some of my stuff at my mother's house , some old report cards, love notes to me, certificates that didn't mean anything, birthday cards, and Church handouts. 

From Camp probably in 1991 after the Inaugural (hahah)

This pillow.  Not even sure if this is the theme anymore for Young Womens.

 Then I cleaned out my coat closet and got rid of coats that don't fit anyone and that people gave me.  I had a coat I wore to the Inaugural of George Bush in 1991.  It was My mother's coat to start with AND there is not a chance that it fits me now.  And if I need a dress coat, I'll buy one that isn't 30 years old.  There were also 2 coats I inherited from Aunt June who has been dead like 14 years.  NEVER wore them.  I did keep the snow pants and coat I wore skiing when I was skinny on a date.  (Just to remind me that I was once skinny and cuter...)  

Look at all these plastic bins that I don't need anymore because I got rid of the HUD in them.  Ready for the DI.  What a charge it is to get rid of it.