Little Black Cardigans

So the other day I was cleaning out my closet and hanging up clean clothes when I noticed something ridiculous. I do not have 1 black cardigan, not 2 or 3, I have 4! I have never realized this before today. I do wear black a lot...how depressing, must be the weather. So my first instinct was to get rid of a couple, but I honestly do wear them all. Meet the guilty subjects:

These pictures are pretty bad, but you still get the point. I just tossed them on my bed and snapped a picture with my phone--they really aren't so wrinkled when I wear them, I promise.

First up, the short-sleeved cardigan. This one is a must-have because I wear it over dressy tank tops to work in the warmer months.

Next, the 3/4 sleeve short cardigan. I really only wear this with one dress, but it goes perfectly with that dress and I don't like the dress with anything else.

Now we have the long-sleeve, casual cardigan that I often wear with jeans and oh, about every shirt I own. I'm kind of obsessed with this one and wear it way too much.

Finally, my long-sleeve dressy cardigan that I wear to work on days when the other black cardigan is dirty or was worn the day before. Ok, not entirely true...but I do wear it a lot.

So, there ya have it. I am not getting rid of any of these just yet...after all, I did just get rid of 150+ things, so I will justify keeping these items. The real issue here is probably that I need to add some color to my wardrobe and work on my fashion sense, but that's another post for another day!

50 More Things!

So the next 50 things went a little slower than the first 50. I continued to go through my apartment regularly to find stuff to get rid of and I would find a few things at a time that I wanted to send away for good.

This is a bath towel on a folding table--blogger refuses to let me turn this photo so it isn't sideways.

I am now up to 104 items! It may seem silly to you to take pictures and count everything instead of just getting rid of it all, but it's kind of become a game for me and I enjoy it much more this way.

My plan is to do this one more time before the end of the year and I hope to get up to 150 total items by 2011!

Get Rid of 50 Things

I took Trey Morgan's "Get Rid of 50 Things" challenge and I am getting rid of 50 things this week! To be honest, this wasn't really too difficult. I did a quick sweep of my apartment and grabbed things I haven't used in the past year and I had probably 35 items right there. Next, I grabbed clothes that were too small, had holes or I just didn't really like. I found lots of little things that I didn't even remember I had, so there were easy to add to the pile. To be honest, I don't feel like this was really much of a sacrifice. I am not sad to get rid of any of these "things" because I didn't use them anyway. Some of these were gifts and I appreciated them at the time, but I don't want to hold onto "stuff" just because someone else gave it to me.

Here are the piles that quickly added up to 50:

Since this was so easy for me, I am planning to do another purge and get rid of 50 more things before Christmas. I'll be combining households with Kory in a few months and this seems like a perfect time to simplify and get rid of some of the stuff that so easily fills up our homes. I don't see a huge difference in my apt, but it feels good to get rid of this stuff. It's even a little addicting so I want to go ahead and start on my next 50 now!

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