1000 Item Day Nineteen - New Dishes! AND WE HIT 300!

So, the past weekend we went to Target for new curtains and ended up leaving with a gorgeous new dish set which I absolutely love. How does adding more equate to a purge?

By going from this:

To this:

I went from a set for eight (when we NEVER have people over) that included two sizes of bowls and three sizes of plates to a setting for four with one set of bowls.

Doing the math, this counts as 16 items gone. The great thing is that Target also sells these a la carte, so if we need more plates or whatever we can just buy what we need. (I do know this will probably mean hand washing as we may not have enough dishes to fill the dishwasher.)

We still have 3 plates and 5 bowls from other old partial sets that I'm hanging onto for now as well, just until we see how this goes, but I really really love this set with its simple white geometric design. (SQUARE BOWLS, Y'ALL!

In other items today:

Water bottle
2 pillow shams
Pillowcase
2 photos
Pajama shorts
Ear plug
5 pieces random hardware

Today's Total: 29 items. WOW!

Overall Total: 309 things OUTTA HERE. This challenge is looking more and more doable!

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