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1000 Item Challenge Day Fourteen - WE HIT 200!

Yesterday was a 4.5 hour training day (#IronmanLife), followed by going to Plattsburgh to see Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (GO SEE IT) and have dinner, so no organizing/decluttering happened.

However, we are back on today with a fresh new selection of items heading out the door.

First of all, to follow up on Friday's post, we did indeed go to the dump, where we dropped off an old air conditioner and CRT television. It was only two items, but they were both really big and took up most of the back of the car. (Which right now looks worse because I'm sorting through memorabilia down there, but that's another story for another time.)

I didn't get a picture of those two items, but I'm totally adding them to today's total.


  • Big-ass television
  • Air conditioner
  • Old photograph book page
  • Nasty makeup brush
  • Television manual
  • 2 old childhood drawings. (And no my mother doesn't want them - she gave them to me when SHE was clearing out years ago!)
  • Pillowcase 
  • Show ticket
  • Show playbill insert
  • Faucet part (yes, ANOTHER)
  • Social security paperwork (Hysterically enough copyrighted my birth year, so it may be from my ORIGINAL Social Security card! LOL!)
  • 5 finishing nails
  • 3 other pieces of random hardware
Today's Total: 21 items out the door
Overal Total: 201. Woohoo! And I know I keep saying this, but once again, over 200 items gone and you can't even tell. I mean, even getting the television and air conditioner out of the basement only made a subtle difference. I do like the goal of 100 items a week to keep myself on track so I'm going to stay with that for now.
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