So, I read Let’s Play a Minimalism Game Together by The Minimalists, and sent it to my friend Anne this week.

No time like the present. November’s the month.

This ought to be interesting. My daily tally will be below the fold on this post.

Nov 1: 1 shaker bottle (lid whereabouts unknown, but what if I started drinking protein shakes again?)

Nov 2: 1 kid’s jacket (it was never useful), 1 pair pants

Nov 3: 1 jacket (too big, but possibly useful someday), 1 travel mug, 1 Nalgene bottle (saved just in case)

(6 items so far)

Nov 4: 1 Nalgene bottle (yeah, we have a lot of these), 1 down jacket (poorly made, annoying for several years), 1 pair gloves, 1 bag dog dental bones (unopened: Grover just doesn’t like this kind)

Nov 5: 5 pint glasses

Nov 6: 1 tube auto-body seam sealer, 5 phone cases (yes, really…)

(21 items so far)

Nov 7: 4 mugs, 1 hoodie (dating back to when I lived in Chicago), 1 scarf, 1 baseball cap

Nov 8: 2 t-shirts, 1 egg timer, 1 battery charger, 1 pen (sentimental value), 1 helmet light, 1 China marker, 1 Halloween flashlight

Nov 9: 2 mechanical pencils, 3 frog statues, 2 wire shelves, 2 cufflinks

(45 items so far)

Nov 10: 1 printer transfer repair kit, 5 toner cartridges, 1 baby bouncer, 1 pair EMS pants, 1 polo shirt (finally, the last one I owned), 1 die wrench (with many more tools to come)

Nov 11: 4 cassette tapes (to play in what, exactly?), 2 specialty Allen keys, 2 bike pedals, 1 antique wrench, 1 antique folding ruler, 1 nut driver (that was sitting right next to another, nicer one of the same size)

(66 items so far)

Nov 12: 1 leather strop, 4 sharpening stones (four???), 3 cabinet scrapers, 1 chisel sharpening guide, 1 baby monitor (not a pair; that would be useful), 1 table knife, 1 more phone case

Nov 13: 1 hobby knife, 2 socks (not a pair), 1 kid jacket, 1 dog collar, 1 pair five finger shoes, 2 more phone cases, 1 floor jack, 2 jack stands, 1 pair shorts, 1 shirt

Nov 14: 2 shirts, 1 pair hearing protectors, 8 seat brackets, 1 turn signal, 1 bottle jack, 1 hat hanger

Nov 15: 3 sewing machine feet, 1 sheet of fabric, 11 slides

(120 items so far)

Nov 16: 1 broken measuring spoon, 1 more pair five finger shoes, 2 pairs socks, 5 scarves, 1 headband, 1 tuque, 3 pairs gloves, 1 drill, 1 circular saw

Nov 17: 17 slides (there were 100, dating back to 1996 — oh what fun to sort those)

Nov 18: 18 slides (see yesterday’s entry)

Nov 19: 19 slides (again)

(190 items so far) (Also, yes, I added the entries for Nov 20-24 tonight.)

Nov 20: 20 slides (yup)

Nov 21: 21 slides (yup)

Nov 22: 5 slides (that’s the last of ’em), 1 handheld router, 3 jerry cans, 9 plug cutters, 1 Dremel tool, 1 kid sweatshirt (poor zipper design, inherited, never worn), 1 travel mug (finally giving up on Stanley mugs), 1 tupperware container (we’d kept it for years, despite a broken lid)

Nov 23: 20 router bits, 1 pop riveter, 1 gas mask, 1 pair wildland firefighting pants

Nov 24: 16 Forstner bits, 6 wrenches, 2 jack handles

(300 items so far) (What a nice round number.)

Nov 25: 1 bottle jack, 1 pile of lug nuts (maybe 20?), 2 factory tool bags, 1 audio adapter, 1 shoulder strap, 1 pair pants (great design, lint-magnet fabric — kept the pair made of good fabric!), 1 multimeter, 2 pens, 1 Nalgene bottle, 1 pair pliers, 1 glue syringe with scary needle, 4 hole saws, 1 oxygen wrench, 2 Plierench jaws (lost the wrench a couple years ago, but it was from Grandpa…), 3 cases hand warmer packets (expired, probably 60 or so, never worked well), 1 pair lineman pliers, 1 watch cap

Nov 26: 1 Camelbak (too small), 1 dog bed (past its expiration date), 1 iron (I meant to do this ages ago!), 1 Cruiser ashtray, 1 airport express (possibly functional, but flaky), 1 poop bag dispenser, 20 books (lots more to go)

(351 items so far)

Nov 27: 27 books

Nov 28: 12 books, 16 random kid things

Nov 29: 11 random antiques and other, 1 pair kid slippers, 1 pair kid boots, 1 stack business cards, 3 Land Cruiser emblems, 2 random kid things, 10 blank DVD-Rs

Nov 30: 30 blank CD-Rs (who uses those anymore???)

465 items.

I still have 77 things left on the list, with a lot of stuff still unexamined. I’ll keep going and make the “bonus round” list for December.

Edit Oct 6, 2015: So much for that December list. Those things and more left, and now, early October 2015, we’ve just finished moving, and a lot more things left. There’s a lot more to get rid of now, though. Moving inspires that, but we didn’t have the chance to do a big purge beforehand.