Summary: On our journey toward a more simple life in the modern world, one point that keeps hitting home is that less is more. We like to say, fewer things, fuller life. Last year, we started the Edit & Forget It Challenge to eliminate 2013 things from our lives and hundreds of you joined us. Well, we're going to keep it going this year, too! Now, we know 2014 fewer things is a lofty goal and certainly won’t be for everyone. But remember, it’s never about the numbers, it’s about your relationship with stuff. The real focus is to eliminate anything that you really don’t need any longer and to reach a point where you have truly what you need...what you love...and what you use. You’re trying to build some margin in your life and the Edit & Forget It Challenge will help you do that!<br> <br> <br> <br> So, if you’re considering doing the Challenge...if you're ready for fewer things cluttering up the margin in your life...we thought we’d share some of the experiences we had as we eliminated over 3000 things from our lives last year. Plus, we’ll tell you how you can sign up too (it's FREE!), and and we’ll go over the “rules” (think of those rules in air quotes because you can shape them a bit to fit your needs).<br> <br> So let’s get started! Read more...<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Topic: The Edit & Forget It Challenge<br> Our Experiences from 2013<br> Starting Out: As we embarked on this challenge I was chomping at the bit! Editing clutter has become second nature to me. Not just because of the work I do as an organizer, but because I make a regular habit of letting go of clutter in our home. I’ve also come to appreciate the concept of “less is more” and so I’ve been ready to let go of a lot more things for awhile.<br> <br> <br> We started off easy by editing our own clothes first. We’ve mentioned before that starting the Edit and Forget It Challenge by editing your own clothes is a really good place to start simply because, for most of us, we don’t share our clothes so its usually easier to make decisions on them.<br> What’s interesting, is we started the challenge knowing we really didn’t have much clutter in our home to begin with, but I knew once we got to the garage it would be a different story. <br> The cool thing about the garage project was that Dan...well...he let me take over. He decided “hey...she does this for a living...I need to let her lead the way.” That was cool and it worked out well. But there were a few other reasons why it worked out well other than me leading the charge:<br> <br> <br> <br> We set a date...actually we set aside an entire weekend just in case we couldn’t finish in a day.<br> We shared the same goal. We both wanted less stuff overall… and to make room for our car (or future teardrop camper) to fit in.<br> We worked as a team. The beautiful thing about working together is not only do you have additional manpower...but you’ve got someone to help guide or keep you in check. Like asking tough questions to really get you to think about if you should keep an item or not. Or knowing when to take a break when the other is tired or struggling to make decisions.<br> <br> <br> <br> So, we were able to meet and exceed our Edit and Forget It goal once we edited the garage. And it felt AMAZING!!! You know how cool it is to set a goal and then achieve or surpass it...it’s AWESOME!<br> And that’s what you are going to experience. But there are a lot of other things you’ll experience along the way which I’m going to go over with you in a moment. But first let me break down what our actual stats were for you:<br> <br> Our Results: We edited 2920 things (a little more because I lost count and forgot to record a few things...plus we didn’t count all of our garage items).<br> <br> <br> Of those 2920 edited items: over 2300 were donated or given away<br> Over 130 were recycled<br>
