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1000 Item Challenge Day 72

Phew...getting so close! This has been a tough challenge and I admit that while I've enjoyed it, I'll also be happy to be done, LOL. The first half went really easily, especially considering how much I had already decluttered prior to starting it, but since hitting 500, boy the struggle is real! However, it's the last day of August and I pushed HARD HARD HARD. Found so many items, in fact, I had to break it into separate photos.

On a positive follow-up, while I still have the little TV and the grill, the broken file cabinet has been broken into tiny pieces and put in the trash and a friend's son snatched up the sofa that very night! (This is especially exciting because I now have all kinds of room to expand the Pain Cave - just in time for indoor winter training!)

Haul One:



  • Hanger
  • Paper
  • Perfume
  • Postcard
  • 2 Pairs yoga pants
  • Dress
  • Shirt
  • Sticker
  • Pack of stickers
Haul Two: (Ignore the TV set from the other day - still need to dispose/donate it.)


  • 2 Hats 
  • Card
  • 2 Scarves
  • 3 Photos
  • 2 Matchbooks
  • 10 Mardi Gras beads
  • 2 Pez dispensers
  • Plastic knife thingy
  • Vent
  • Book
  • Skirt
  • Instruction Manual
  • Miracle Gro
  • 2 Socks
  • Crepe paper
  • Glasses lens cloth
  • 2 Expired Epi-Pens
Haul 3:


  • 5 MORE Mardi Gras beads (from a Super Bowl party)
  • 5 Thumbtacks
  • Barbados map
  • Crepe paper
Haul 4:


  • T-shirt
  • Canoe race plaque
  • Trench coat 
  • 2 Paint stirrers
  • Instruction manual
  • Scratching post (Going to the shelter - it's in great shape, the cats just never liked it, even after I put a bunch of catnip on it.)
  • 4 Photos

Today's Total: 67 Items
Overall Total: 954 Items. Didn't make that September 1st goal, but with 67 items found in one day, especially at this point? Can't complain.
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