For the first few weeks of our Extreme Minimalism challenge, I got rid of several of my items.
Last week it was Truffles’s turn and this week someone new joins the challenge – Shae!
It’s week 5 of the challenge, so that meant she needed to let go of 15 items. As you’ll come to see though, that was easier said than done 😉
Here’s what left our apartment this week:
Going clockwise from top-left there’s:
- 1 black dress
- 3 pairs of shoes
- 3 pairs of earrings
- 1 necklace
- 1 purse
- 1 skirt
- 1 nightgown
- 1 T-shirt
- 1 bed skirt
Now, you may not have noticed but it seems like Shae was having subconscious minimizer’s remorse. Neither of us had realized at the time, but she’d actually only chosen 13 items rather than 15.
I only picked up on it when counting the items in the photo, so she had to find two more things to let go of. Here’s what she chose:
- 1 bag
- 1 pair of earrings
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?!
I’m loving the minimization journey, it must be so difficult to choose at this stage! I imagine that once you have to actually physically fit everything into your car it will get easier ? Looking forward to next week’s choices.
Yep, it’s definitely getting harder as the weeks go on as there’s still so much stuff we’ll be using (or think we’ll be using) until we leave. I think August and September will be when it starts getting really interesting!
This is probably not helpful, but as a reluctant minimizer, I may count the pairs of shoes and earrings as 2 items each, so she got rid of 22 items! Above and beyond!
Hahaha! I’d been thinking about that but thought it’d be cheating. It’d certainly make things easier – week 6 I could get rid of 18 toothpicks, week 7 get rid of 21 sheets of paper… 😉
Lol! Perhaps something to keep in mind just in case. ?