Fifty

I think Matt hates this challenge. This morning I decided that I was going to get the girls to pick three toys to give away. Every time I picked up a toy they would quickly grab it out of my hands and say "You are not giving that away!" I distracted them by giving them small chores like finding all the instruments and putting them in a bin. The more I asked them to do the further they moved away from me. It is funny, the only one who would come near me was Jordan because she was afraid I was going to throw away a pocketbook or a baby.
Matt also stayed away, especially when I mentioned moving on to the garage when we were done in baby jail. I convinced him by promising that we would each throw away ten things and that we would be done in an hour. I do not even think we were outside for an hour and we each threw out our ten items. Matt convinced me that when we throw out a huge garbage bag filled with tons of different things that it need to count as more than "one".
Using his logic we are done with this challenge. I must have gotten rid of over one hundred pieces of clothes, one hundred toys and stuffed animals and one hundred pieces of paper. I must admit I liked Matt's logic but I had loftier goals. I wanted to get rid of at least one hundred big things. I wanted to see big gaping holes where stuff used to live. I wanted to look at a closet and say to myself "What can I put in here? instead of "Where can I fit this pill box?" I still have time and I am planning on making Matt get rid of ten things next weekend as well. We are at fifty "things" and counting and counting and counting.