The 100 Thing Challenge

Welcome All! I figured a little introduction was in order before we kick things off. My name is Veronica and I live in the Colorado Rockies outside of Boulder. I've dabbled in minimalism off and on for the past five years or so. Last year I got down to the fewest items I'd owned since I was living in tiny Boston apartments as I prepared to sell my house and move from New York to Colorado, but in the past year my possessions have skyrocketed again. I figured the best way to deal with this (since I'm a bit of an all-or-nothing extremist) was to attempt the 100 Thing Challenge. If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's a challenge created by David Bruno to live with 100 things for a year. (He even wrote a book about it . You can also watch his TED Talk -admittedly not as captivating - here. ) In general, you create a list of 100 things you will you have for the year. Now, there are definitely no hard and fast rules to this. In fact, Bruno encourages tweaking i...