The 100 Thing Challenge: Living With Just 100 Items in Your Life.
These days most people are living a jam-packed life. We want more when we already have lots. And in the grand scheme of things that just doesn’t make much sense when you consider what’s really important.
Meet Dave Bruno. One day last July he looked around his San Diego home and realized just how much of his family’s belongings were cluttering their lives. So he decided to do something about it. And that was the beginning of The 100 Thing Challenge.
“By my thirty-seventh birthday on November 12, 2008 I will have only 100 personal items. I will live for at least one year (God willing) maintaining an inventory of only 100 personal things. This challenge will help me “put stuff in its place” and also explore my belief that “stuff can be good when it serves a purpose greater than possession alone.”
The thought is that everyone is holding on to so many possessions not because they need them, but because they like what the idea of the possessions means. An example are kitchen pots. We don’t need more than a few to make a meal, but we like the idea of the family and comfort associated with that meal. When I started to really think about that I realized just how true it is. “Things are to be used, people are to be loved.”
Keep up with Dave’s progress on his blog.
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