100 Thing Challenge
There's a story cruising around the interwebs today about people taking on the 100 Thing Challenge. Can you reduce your belonging to just 100 things? It was apparently started by this guy.
I am pretty interested in a minimalist lifestyle. My senior year of college (2 whole years ago, holy crap) I started pairing down my clothing. I have been slowly working on it ever since. When I went to LA I had everything I needed in my car (which was my original goal), but I still had tons of stuff in my room back home. So, while I didn't have a whole lot of stuff with me, I had my safety net back home in case I changed my mind.
But I think 100 things might be a bit too extreme. A lot depends on how you classify a 'thing', I guess. The guy I linked to above considers a pair of shoes a 'thing' (which makes sense). But someone in the comments said she considers her 20 pairs of shoes a 'thing' (which doesn't). Would a first aid kit count as a thing? Or lots of things?
Does my book case count as a thing? :)
Plus 100 is such an arbitrary number. If I were going to pick an arbitrary number I would at least pick an interesting one, like 314 or 161 or 271. Plus, it reduces being a minimalist to a game, which is interesting of course but I am more interested in having few things from a philosophical stand point. Anyway, kind of interesting to think about what your 100 things might be.
19 June 2008 12:11am UTC • 123 views • 1 comment
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Peon Peetie
19 June 2008 12:10pm UTC
100 really is arbitrary. if fibonacci didn't care about it enough to put it in a sequence, then why the hell should i care?! the only reason those other numbers even exist is to make the numbers in the sequence so damn cool.