Over the years I have displayed an obsession with the idea of owning less stuff, all the while accumulating more and more stuff.
About two years ago I had read something about a project called The 100 Thing Challenge by Dave Bruno. The challenge, to reduce (get rid of some of your stuff), refuse (to get more new stuff) and rejigger (your priorities) had goal to "break free from the confining habits of American-style consumerism."
Here it is two years later and not only have I abandoned The 100 Things Challenge, but I have accumulated even more stuff. Today while catching up on the news I came across Graham Hill's 2011 TED talk. Hill is the founder of TreeHugger.com. In his TED talk Hill tries to put STUFF in perspective. Sitting on a box all taped up, he said, "What's in the box? Whatever it is must be pretty important, because I've traveled with it, moved it, from apartment to apartment to apartment."
What happened to cause me to lose my laser-like focus? Life. So now I intend to try a Mulligan and manage things in smaller bite sized bits. I am calling this my Life Edit. How will this time be different? I intend to post a picture of the before and after Life Edits. I do not intend to just clean things up,but reduce, refuse and rejigger. Wish me luck!