Our new goal to minimize started out strong with sorting through our Christmas closet. I was able to reduce our stuff by two full totes, which I considered pretty good. I wanted to do the Christmas first because much of if will make money at a resell shop if I can get it there quickly.
One challenge I did notice right away is the tendency to get distracted--such as while cooking, I found excess spoons. I had to remind myself not to stop and deal with them as we are taking it one room at a time.
I can also foresee a big temptation--post Christmas sales. That's when I buy extra cute ornaments and fun items. I'm nixing that practice this year.
Here's what we reduced from our Christmas stash:
50 ornaments
1 craft kit
8 decorative items
14 tea cups (I collected items for a tea time tree, which I never put up)
1 tea pot
6 saucers
11 Children's Thanksgiving books
9 misc. items
Total Stuff Reduction : 100
Total to date: 100
