To be honest, when I reached fifth, I barely saw a difference, but decided to take it to a hundred. Mind you, all this time, I balanced any new purchase by disposing of a similar item. These items were not counted in the mix. It wasn’t until I had gotten rid of 250 items that I really noticed a difference. Four years later, I am up to 350 things. I’ve gotten much bigger at organizing. In the last two years, I’ve lost 14 pounds along with everything else.

I heartily encourage everyone to take this challenge.

I didn’t take pictures of my fifty things, but I still have the list where I wrote down all fifty things. Now that we’re about to move again, I am likely going to do another list! Only this time, I think I’m going to up it to 100 things. In the rules of the RS article, multiple pairs of things (like shoes, magazines, etc.) only count as one thing – no matter how big they are. I have to get her book to really inspire myself this time.

Another book you might really like is called “Clear your Clutter with Feng Shui” – by Karen Kingston. I found it to be one of those books you read and sit there in awe and then immediately want to do something about after each and every chapter. And it’s not weird. Some people are afraid of anything involving Feng Shui. I like to define Feng Shui as an art of practicing the practical or simply common sense. Things like, Don’t leave things hanging or behind your doors so that they can’t open properly, because even though this may be a minor irritation or grievance to you as you enter a room, it is still a negative force. And so on. It also has at least one chapter about caring for your body!!! We so often forget about these things that carry our souls about, don’t we?

Anyway. I’m glad you had success in your fifty. I think I’ll do this every year of my life