Question for 365 items out

[dialecticdreamer]

Do you count bags of "recyclable random papers" as one thing? or does the goal imply "usable objects I no longer want, or broken objects to trash?"

I'm supposed to be on item number fifty today, and I'm at... thirteen.

It's disheartening.

I've got a bag of "things to drop in the charity bin when we run errands" but that has to wait for Sunday errands, and I don't want to count the items until they are actually OUT the door. (Things happen to derail that plan, you know.)

Comments

[peaceful_sands]

I think people count whatever works for them and keeps them motivated. I sometimes count recyclables by the recycling container (1 box of paper/cardboard for instance) or 1 bag of rubbish that can't be recycled if it's all random 'nothing'. The only things that I personally discount are food, general cleaning products and day to day toiletries - if they're 'special' toiletries or sets that I give away untouched then I count them.

I think the most important part is keeping yourself motivated and feeling positive about the progress and the achievement.

[fred_mouse]

I would only count them as one thing if I sorted them in the one session. And if they were all the same category/from the same source. So, ooh, file of psych 100 notes that hasn't been opened in twenty years? Open, pull out the papers, recycle -> 1 thing. But a file of journal articles I had to go through and decide on the relevance of each? Each one gone counts.

And I count anything where I break the tape of '...but this might be useful..." or ".. I was keeping that in case ...".