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New Years Minimalism Challenge
13. Jan, 2010 
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So it’s not even the middle of January and everyone’s forgotten about their New Years Resolutions? Right?
Wrong! I hope you haven’t either!
How many of you said you wanted to get rid of things? Pare down? Clean out your closet and your mind?
Have you started?
Do it! Join Dave from The Minimalist Path and I on a Minimalist Challenge this month.
In? Good.
The Challenge
From January 15th to February 15th you’re going to be getting rid of one thing every day from your kitchen, closet, computer room, bedroom, car, work. Anywhere that is accumulating clutter and things you don’t need. The purpose here is not to become a minimalist Zen Monk, (if you want to though, give ‘er) but to remove things from our lives that don’t matter.
The idea for this is not to get rid of everything. Yes, this would be very minimalistic to be sitting on a bare floor eating with your hands. Not very practical though. You want to remove things from your life that have little value and leave the big things that mean a lot to you. All those little things take up time, space and money. Wouldn’t you rather spend those on things you love?
Rules
1. You have to plan to get rid of something every day of the challenge. You can take the stuff to wherever it’s going to end up, dump/friends/recycling depot/ shelter, once a week if you like. I understand it’s hard to go every single day.
2. Update your blog/website/doc/wave with things that you’ve thrown away. Try to make an update post somewhere of what you let go every week. Comment here with the link. If you don’t want them cluttering up your blog, email me.
3. Things that can be recycled or donated, have to be. Don’t just throw them in the garbage. People can benefit from used stuff.
4. Check out what Dave has to say about the Challenge on The Minimalist Path.
That’s it. That’s all you have to do. After 30 days you might just create a new habit of getting rid of things you don’t need. Now get minimalizing!
[Update]
If you’ve started a little late, check out the update from Week 1 to see how everyone is doing.
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