 Well hello my friends and welcome back to my channel. Today I'm in my office and I've got new hair. I have not shown the new hair on the internet yet, but I got my hair down a couple of weeks ago and I went shorter and I went lighter. So anyway, let's get into the video. Today I am here to share my 31 day minimalism game for January 2019 with you guys. I did this for December 2018. I will link the video up in a card wherever it goes. I had such a great positive feedback from that video. I challenged you guys along my journey for January and so many of you have been tagging me on Instagram. I've actually been sharing this journey on Instagram as well and Facebook. So if you guys want to follow along or see what, you know, see it again or whatever, I'll leave my links down below. They're always down below for you guys. But again, I got rid of over 500 items. Again, I didn't address this in the past video, but I got a lot of questions on how I was disposing of the items. I know when some people do the minimalism game, a lot of people are very tempted to just throw things in the garbage. I did not do that for either of these challenges. I donated anything I possibly could and then if it wasn't able to be donated, I recycled it and if it wasn't able to to be recycled, then it went in the trash. I don't think many items went in the trash, to be honest, but I had a lot of garbage bags full of stuff for donations and now all of the donations are gone from my home. So it's very, very clean and very, very tidy, even though my office closet looks kind of like a little hot mess, but let's not talk about that. It's an organized mess guys. It's an organized mess, but I had so much fun kind of going through all of the different areas of my home. I got rid of stuff in the kitchen, lots of stuff in the bathroom. I also got rid of like a bunch of travel things because I, to be honest, I haven't traveled since this past summer and a lot of my travel items I just really wasn't using anymore or were old and needed to be tossed out or I used them up. I also got rid of some clothing, which was awesome. Some organizers, lots of office stuff, which some was in here, some was downstairs, and if you guys have watched my channel before, I love decorative planning and I got rid of a bunch of planning items as well. All the planning items, I did say in the description of my Instagram and Facebook posts, all the planning items I am donating to my local planner group and what they do with them is a bunch of them, you know, they either take what they want or anything that is left after the donation and the like kind of destash table as we like to call it goes towards a school district. So we actually donate that to a school district that, you know, people can play with, you know? So to touch on one little thing before I show you everything as well, I touched on this in the last video, is that this is definitely helping a lot with my anxiety. I get a lot of anxiety from things. I also get a lot of anxiety from like circumstances as well but definitely purging the things has really helped clear my space as well as clear my mind and I know a lot of people, you know, don't have that specific kind of anxiety where the stuff doesn't matter but to me and my journey it really does matter and it's been helping so, so much but I just wanted to touch on that. Clearly this is not a cure for people's anxiety. This is just my journey but it's just been helping so much. So without further ado, let's get into all the things I got rid of. So here is day one of the Minimalism Challenge. I am getting rid of this vacuum. I've had it for more than a decade. It does not work well anymore. I've tried to repair it time and time again and I actually just got myself a replacement so goodbye vacuum. You've been good to me. Day two is two coffee mugs. Day three is three glass containers. Day four are some kitchen items and two plastic containers. Day five is a cutting board, two wooden spoons, an egg slicer and a scraper all from my kitchen. Day five is five plastic storage containers. Day six are six pair of thermal socks that I never got around to giving away for the holidays this year and I don't want to keep them any longer so they are going to donation. Right Doyle? Day seven is a mug and some sauce containers that the lids never really fully sealed so I got these actually for salad dressing and one of them spilled and now I'm done with them because they clearly don't seal properly so this is my day seven. All right so here is my day eight. It's a bunch of office supplies and some planning stencils that I will never use. I'm not a stenciler person and then this is actually for my label maker and it's broken. Doyle's helping model but yes it is broken and there is no saving it so this is my day eight. So for day nine I'm getting rid of a bin, an old iPhone box, a little sign, a little gift card holder and this kind of breaks my heart a little bit. I have a Polaroid zip and I got to tell you I absolutely loved it for a really long time and they changed the app and I don't like it anymore so I'm going to be passing that along so I've got the zip, the cord and then I have two pads or like not two pads but two things of extra paper and this is the um case that I stored it in so I am going to be repurposing that for somebody else. All right day 10 we have this window cling film thing that I used a very small piece of and I don't need any more. Some kitchen knives, a pitcher and then two decorative vases. Day 11 I'm getting rid of some old travel containers that I no longer need, a dove deodorant that's all used up and three different funnels. All right it is day 12 and I am getting rid of all this doll furniture that I have. A few years back I purchased a hearth and hand doll house, came with all this furniture but I have no use for it so it's going away. For day 13 I am getting rid of a bunch of travel items, a bunch of this stuff is either expired or completely empty, I have no idea why I was holding on to it, it no longer serves me so anything that can be donated will be donated, everything else is going in the permanent file. So day 14 I am getting rid of a bath mat, a bunch of stuff from the bathroom, a travel case, a small little container and these little white things right there are like little scoopy things that I got from Sephora years and years ago. I don't think I need that many so they're going away. So here is day 15 there's a ton of stuff from my bathroom, a few expired products, things I'll never use, there's some hair stuff that I absolutely hate and some shower puffs that I am going to pass along to somebody else so this is day 15. So day 16 is a bunch of random stuff mostly from the bathroom, I got a trash can, a bunch of curling wands, some travel pouches, a random holiday garland right there, I don't know why that was in the bathroom but it was. I've got a mirror, a makeup brush, a comb, a bunch of rags and then also this didn't fit but this is going as well for day 16. All right day 17 is all clothing. I've got two pairs of heels, three stocking caps, a bunch of mismatched socks, some leggings, a top, I've got a robe, a puffer vest, some sweatpants and then I also have a scarf so that is day 17. So for day 18 I have a bunch of organizers, some books, don't judge me about my cool is ice, VHS, it was well loved but I no longer have a VHS player so it doesn't really serve a purpose. I've also got some other random things like a electronic cord, an allen key, some hair ties and a pouch and that's day 18. Day 19 there's a bunch of hair clips as well as those like butterfly clips. I don't know if that's what they're called. I didn't even realize I had this many but this is day 19. So day 20 is 17 more of those hair clips and three containers. Day 21 is a bunch of these office kind of clips. I am actually going to bring these to my office because I use black clips like this all the time but I no longer have a use for them at my house so this is day 21. Day 22 is a bunch of pens and markers that I no longer use and that's day 22. This is day 23. I have a whole bunch of stickers, a pad of paper, three separate different organizers, some cold weather outerwear, more hair things and a reusable bag so that is day 23. Day 24 is 24 air and condor and sticker sheets that I've either used up or partially used that are going to be going on to another home so this is day 24. For day 25 we have 25 different planning items. I am getting rid of these adhesive labels that I got at the dollar spot at Target long time ago. There's 20 of them in there. I also have an air and condor and cover that I just don't gravitate towards anymore and then four different planner sticker sheets. So that's going to be it for day 25. For day 26 I have a whole bunch of personal paperwork so I'm glad that this is really blurry right now plus I am going to be getting rid of this folder as well so this is day 26. All right so day 27 is 27 of these dividers. These came in my washi storage system that I purchased from Michael's a while back and I don't need them so there are 27 of these and spoiler alert there are going to be more of these coming up very very soon. Day 28 is 28 of these aero paper clips that I got from Ikea several years ago. I've never used them and now they're going to be passed on to somebody that will use them. This is actually going to be day 29. There are over 150 bobby pins that you see here. I stopped counting at 150 because I was like this is not working out so as you guys know that I've ever watched my videos I really don't do my hair that often so I don't really understand why I've accumulated this many bobby pins but I clearly don't need them in my life so this is day 29 and these are going to be passed on to another home. So for day 30 there are 30 more of these container organizer separator things so this is day 30. All right so as you can see I got rid of over 500 items it was awesome to just get rid of so much stuff that just doesn't have any purpose for me anymore. If you guys want to learn more about the minimalism game I will leave the minimalist youtube channel down below. I believe they're the ones that started it. It was Josh and Ryan from the minimalists. Normally they ask you to like team up with a friend or a family member to do the game and um you know you don't really win anything but you just get rid of the clutter in your life which is kind of the idea. So I want to challenge you guys again because I have more stuff to get rid of and I want to do February which is only 28 days so I want to do a February minimalist game as well. So if you guys want to participate feel free to follow me on instagram and facebook. I will be posting daily all of the things that I am parting with. I will also do another video for you guys so if you're not on social media and you only watch youtube it'll be up at the very end of February but I definitely have room to not grow but I have room to minimize even more and really taking a long hard look at my things and not necessarily associating value to them but really thinking about the functionality and if I enjoy the item is really helping my mind see a lot more clear. I haven't gotten rid of any like really sentimental items yet so I might do a video on that. There's a few things that I actually I think I'm okay with getting rid of but I think I might do a video about that of how I like came to that conclusion but let me know in the comments if you'd like to see a video about my mind process basically on getting rid of sentimental items and maybe I can share why certain items are sentimental to maybe a little story time kind of a thing too. I don't know if y'all are interested just let me know in the comments but anyway that is it for me for my January minimalism game challenge 31 days over 500 items are all gone from my home so in two months I've gotten rid of more than a thousand items and it feels amazing. I would love for you all to participate in the 28-day February challenge with me so feel free to tag me on Instagram or let me know on Facebook what you're getting rid of and I can't wait to share more next month. If you like these kind of videos make sure to give it a thumbs up feel free to subscribe and I will see y'all in the next video. Bye guys! Well folks it's time to kick it old school!