"There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them." - Tom Krause
Well, we didn't do it. Our goal was to get down to 100 things each by January 1 and we still each have more than 100 things. That being said, we did get rid of a lot of stuff and we've changed our thinking. Now when something comes in we think of what we can give away to balance it. We think more carefully before getting something new to us on whether it is a need or a want, and if there's some way to accomplish the same need or want with something we already have. I still want to make another attempt at the 100 Thing Challenge, but for now with all that is going on in our lives, I'm happy to settle for knowing we got rid of a lot of stuff and made an earnest attempt at it. Even more important, I feel I've come away from this realizing that it isn't so much the end goal as the journey that is important. What we really needed from this wasn't to learn to live with 100 things each but to change how we think about stuff, which actually happened with us. So while we failed our numerical goal, we still have success!
