Diction

One of my friends asked me when I was going to start the “challenge.” After I gave my response, another friend said something along the lines of, “Challenge? I thought you were just trying to do this because you wanted to live more simply.” (Again, what I’ve just written is not what she said verbatim. I have a pretty bad memory when it comes to certain things.) Somewhat startled at what this second friend said, I quickly clarified (or tried to, anyway) that no, I’m not doing this to see if I can live with only a hundred items, and that she did have it right and I am trying to live more frugally. Then we started talking about something else. I really don’t remember that much aside from the fact that I found it enjoyable. I love my friends.

Being the type of person that I am, as soon as I was left to my own devices, I started thinking about this short conversation and didn’t really stop until I sat down to write this post. Hello.

I don’t think of getting down to ninety-something or so things as a game, a fun challenge that I, total daredevil extraordinaire, want to face for the hell of it. And I really hope that no one has gotten that impression from my poorly-written explanations. I thought a lot about what Dave Bruno was doing before deciding to commit to something similar. I guess I should have specified that though our “projects” (my mind is blanking and I can’t think of a better term) are similar, they are not interchangeable. There are several key differences between them, the greatest being that while he plans on abiding the rules he set out for a year, I think I’m just going to try to maintain this number of possessions for a while. Hopefully at least through college.

Yeah, I’ve provided a link to his rules, but that was more out of urgency and wanting to get something written down than anything (I had midterms that week). I will sit down and write my own set of rules before I officially “start.” Right now, what’s posted is meant to give you a general idea.