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The ”100 item Challenge 2017 edition”, how well could you do it?

Asked by Hypocrisy_Central (26879points) January 8th, 2017

Several years under the bridge, it is a good exercise to revive. Way in the past I read an article of people downsizing drastically not only their possessions but the square footage of their living space. Physically it makes sense that the smaller space you have, the less stuff you can put into it. Somewhere around 2007–2008 (as far as I can tell) someone came up with the ”100 item Challenge”, where you reduce what you have to 100 items. There is no official formula but for clarity, an “item” would be anything that is part of a set, or need to be used with something else to make it useful, like the attachments to your vacuum, or makes something else useful, like a set of drill bits, or your monitor and your PC tower would be one unit, as they are useless without one other; the printer or scanner can be grandfathered in as well. A set of boxed in combination wrenches would be one unit, a collection of baseball cards, deck of playing cards, etc. would also be one unit or item. An outfit of clothes that are made to go together like a 3 piece suit is one item, but a leather trench coat that can be worn with many items cannot be included as part of any item of clothing, it stands alone. Jewelry is not counted as they take up no space and are worn usually, or in a case or box, which is the one item. Do you believe you could reduce what you have to 100 items?

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