We’re only on week 3 of our extreme minimalism challenge and it’s already feeling a bit harder to decide what should go.
After spending the first couple of weeks going through unneeded kitchen items, I moved on to my electronics / miscellaneous box.
The box is my version of Michael MacIntyre’s Man Drawer:
Annoyingly, there were still quite a few items I wanted to keep for now. To be fair, I will (honestly!) be making use of many of them, like plug converters when we’re in Australia.
I managed to gather the nine items though, so here’s what we’re letting go of this week.
Clockwise from top-left we have:
- Travel poker game – This was a Christmas stocking stuffer, but we’re unlikely to play it on the road trip.
- iPod – I haven’t used this in years thanks to Spotify on my phone.
- iPod charger cable – If I don’t have an iPod, I don’t need its charger cable.
- Basic Nokia phone – I got this as a cheap temporary phone when back in the UK for work a couple of years ago. We have T-Mobile now which offers free texting and internet service overseas, so there’s no need to keep this. It does mean saying goodbye to Snake though.
- Nokia charger – Again, if I don’t have a Nokia phone, I don’t need its charger.
- Casters – I’ve no clue which piece of furniture these belong to! They’re not being used though, so they’re obviously not needed.
- Micro-USB cable – We already have several of these, so I’ve forced myself to not keep it Just In Case
- Square Reader – We got this Square credit card reader for our non-profit when we were doing fundraising events. As the non-profit’s closed, it’s no longer needed.
- Ear buds – The clear plastic packaging used to contain in-ear headphones. It came with some spare plastic / silicon ear buds that are still in the packaging which I’d been holding on to. Yet another of those Just In Case items.
You can follow our entire Extreme Minimalism process with all the posts below:
- Week 1: The Purge Begins – 3 items
- Week 2: More Kitchen Stuff Edition – 6 items
- Week 3: Man Drawer Edition – 9 items
- Week 4: Puppy Edition – 12 items
- Week 5: Wifey Edition – 15 items
- Week 6: My Clothing Edition – 18 items
- Week 7: Bathroom Edition – 21 items
- Week 8: Cupcake Edition – 24 items
- Week 9: Sort Of Cheating Edition – 27 items
- Week 10: Still Sort Of Cheating Edition – 30 items
- Week 11: Stationery Edition – 33 items
- Week 12: Random Crap Edition – 36 items
- Week 13: Easter In September Edition – 39 items
- Week 14: Easter In September Redux Edition – 42 items
- Week 15: Hot Stuff Edition – 45 items
- Week 16: Paperwork Edition – 48 items
- Week 17: Toiletries Edition – 51 items
- Week 18: Toiletries & Frames Edition – 54 items
- Week 19: Sugar & Spice Edition – 57 items
- Week 20: Nakey Edition – 60 items
- Week 21: My Preciouses Edition – 63 items
- Week 22: Everything Must Go Edition – Who Knows How Many Items?!
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