Here We Go



Now that you have a space in mind and an idea of how great it will look, let’s put a number on it.

A few years ago on New Years Day, I decided to set a goal for the year of reducing 100 products from my bathroom.  The easiest way to track this was a piece of paper and pen kept right in my bathroom drawer.  I wrote the number 100 on the top.  The first time I threw out a product, I crossed out 100 and wrote 99 next to it.  I found myself enjoying the purges and brought the numbers down very quickly.  At the end of the year, I did a final purge to reach 0.  I had made it and it felt great!

100 bathroom products out over a year- I told you I was surrounded by clutter!  

The purges were fun, but my strict no buying bathroom products rule for the year was very difficult for me.  Even with so much surrounding me, there was still a pull to buy new.  

Gifts were the only thing I allowed coming into the bathroom.  I found myself cherishing the sweet smelling  bottles of lotion and masks that I received from friends and family over the course of the year more than I ever had before.  I was now truly appreciating new bathroom items even if I wasn’t the the one to select them.

Even with 100 products down, I couldn’t believe the number of items still in my bathroom.  The following year, I wrote 50 on a new paper in my bathroom.   Below that, I made room for another row titled Magazines with a 50.  I had found a process that worked!  

Try it out first yourself!  Do you have excess in your bathroom?  Your closest?  The pantry?  Pick one area and try to reduce 10 things by the end of the month.  Don’t buy anything new.  This is going to feel great! 💕

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