{"id":974,"date":"2016-11-01T10:45:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T13:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ronspencer.com\/?p=974"},"modified":"2016-11-07T08:07:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T12:07:28","slug":"getting-rid-of-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"Getting Rid of Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"stuff1\"My first steps to minimizing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starting today, 1 November 2016, I am going to start playing the Minimalist Game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how it works\u2026<\/p>\n

Find a friend or family member: someone who\u2019s willing to get rid of their excess stuff.\u00a0This month, each of you must get rid of one thing\u00a0on the first day. On the second, two things. Three items on the third. So forth, and so on.\u00a0Anything can go! Clothes, furniture, electronics, tools, decorations, etc.\u00a0Donate, sell, or trash. Whatever you do, each material possession must be out of your house\u2014and out of your life\u2014by midnight each day.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s an easy game at first. However, it starts getting challenging by week two when you\u2019re both jettisoning more than a dozen items each day.\u00a0Whoever can keep it going the longest wins; you both win if you can make it all month. Bonus points if you play with more than two people.<\/p>\n

For the month of November, I will be playing this game alone. #minsgame<\/strong><\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong, I am not a hoarder…but do believe that I have held on to a lot of things, “just in case”.<\/p>\n

When my 30 days is up, I should have removed over 400+ items out of my life!<\/p>\n

Follow my 30 days below;<\/p>\n

Day 1 – One Old Business Pinstripe Suite<\/p>\n

Day 2 – Two\u00a0Pairs of Shoes<\/p>\n

Day 3 – Three\u00a0Kitchen Items<\/p>\n

Day 4 – Four\u00a0Beer Glasses<\/p>\n

Day 5 – Men’s Shorts\u00a0($old)<\/p>\n

Day 6 – Six\u00a0Steak Knives ($old)<\/p>\n

Day 7 – 3 Shorts, 1 pair of Pants & 3 Shirts<\/p>\n

Day 8 – 8 T Shirts (T Shirts are the most common collectible in your drawers and I bet you only wear 10-20% of them)<\/p>\n

Day 9 – Nine\u00a0Neck Ties<\/p>\n

Day 10 –<\/p>\n

Day 11 –<\/p>\n

Day 12<\/p>\n

Day 13<\/p>\n

Day 14<\/p>\n

Day 15<\/p>\n

Day 16<\/p>\n

Day 17<\/p>\n

Day 18<\/p>\n

Day 19 – 19 Bottles from Bottle Collection<\/p>\n

Day 20<\/p>\n

Day 21<\/p>\n

Day 22<\/p>\n

Day 23<\/p>\n

Day 24<\/p>\n

Day 25<\/p>\n

Day 26<\/p>\n

Day 27<\/p>\n

Day 28<\/p>\n

Day 29<\/p>\n

Day 30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My first steps to minimizing. Starting today, 1 November 2016, I am going to start playing the Minimalist Game. Here\u2019s how it works\u2026 Find a friend or family member: someone who\u2019s willing to get rid of their excess stuff.\u00a0This month, each of you must get rid of one thing\u00a0on the first day. On the second, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,34,70,12],"tags":[69,71],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bucket-list","category-life","category-minimalism","category-plan-b-project","tag-bucket-list","tag-minimalism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82n0m-fI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ronspencer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/stuff2.jpg?fit=1025%2C343&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}