Cardboard explosion!

Wednesday was like an early christmas on our doorstep, when we got home there was 4 boxes of various sizes waiting there.

The new items are:

Wall clock (which is replacing the crappy "atomic" clock that got recycled for being epically inaccuate)

3 kitchen tools - skimmer, tongs and a microplane grater

1 Book - SuperFreakonomics

and a USB adapter for the car's cigarette lighter.

That's a net gain of 5 items, so we're at -25. Which is quite a bit down from the recent best, but still pretty respectable, and should give me a little breathing room going in to the holidays.

This is where I get all my clothes

A new t-shirt showed up in the mail today, it came from the internet. I probably ordered it, but it's also possible that the internet has just started sending me funny t-shirts now...

new total = -30

A couple new things (and a correction)

A few espresso spoons showed up in the mail this weekend. I was trying to decide how to count them, if it was a new set of 6 or something like that I'd just count it as 1 (one of these little things isn't worth enough to count as it's own thing). But it's actually 7 vintage spoons, from 3 different sets. I figure I'll just count it as 3, for the 3 different patterns in the group, and leave it at that.

Also, I thought that I should count the charger for the new phone as it's own thing. Normally I wouldn't count a charger, but with the phones these days the charger is just a USB cable, and a USB converter for the wall socket, so you can use that for any phone (or anything else that needs to get charged). Someday soon phones won't even come with a seperate charger.

So, 4 more things, I'm at -31 things.

Chinesse toys!

My Rubics cube just showed up from China. Granted it took them 2 weeks to fly it over here, but it was $7, including the shipping. Which seems cheap, except that it must be all of .30 cents in plastic that I assembled myself. Anyways, that brings me to -19, but I was doing some laundry yesterday, and finally went through and counted up all my "work clothes".

11 White tshirts

11 Dress Shirts

4 dress pants

3 suits

11 ties

28 pairs of socks

... see something off there? Yeah, I told you I had way too many socks, so I trimmed that number down to 15, with the other 13 pairs going off to goodwill with 1 tie that I never wear, and a couple other things I missed on my last trip. The new tally is -35 (once I drop all this stuff off) and adding up all the clothes I counted today (plus my 19 pairs of boxers and 1 pair of long underwear that are in the same set of drawers) I've counted up 270 things. I'm going to go out on a limb and say I'm around 25-30% done counting....

MW2

I'm back at -20; went and picked up Modern Warfare 2 after the tasting last night. I think I'll have to go through the house and make a second pile of stuff to bring to goodwill, I'm sure I can find more stuff.

A couple new things

Got a couple gifts in the last few days, a pull-over fleece, and a BSAS (Boston Securities Analyst Society) umbrella, which birings me to -21. I'll have to do another sweep through the house and see if there's more stuff that can go to goodwill. Or get sold on the internet.

Out with the new, in with the old

the old phone sold on Amazon in just a few days, so that got shipped out today. But a new bit of espresso gear, a new portafilter (the thing you pack the coffee in to) showed up in the mail, so it all nets out.