How the hell are we gonna do this?

24 hours ago, I was thinking "this is gonna be so easy - we have so much stuff we can get rid of!"... and yeah... those days are gone.  After getting rid of 66 items of clothing, I just knew that I was well on my way to halving my clothing.  And then I counted the items hanging up in my closet.  I had 69 items there - which would be awesome if I didn't also have dirty clothes in laundry baskets, clean clothes in other laundry baskets, and clothes on a shelf in that closet, four drawers of a dresser filled with t-shirts, exercise clothing, socks, and unmentionables (which I have clearly just mentioned... so are they now mentionables?  Have I just split us into dual realities where in one world they are still unmentionables and in the other world I'm stuck on an island trying to kill a smoke monster?  Clearly the answer is yes.).  So I'm now left with multiple thoughts:

A. I wish I hadn't thrown out or donated about 20-30 pieces of clothing last year.  I could really use those to donate now.
2. I need to either donate the stack of shirts/pants I cannot wear because they are too small as well as my drawer of exercise clothes; or use those exercise clothes much, much more often so I can fit into those shirts and then donate some of the larger shirts I would then no longer need if I could fit into the smaller ones.
D. I don't know if I like this anymore.  Not only am I gonna have to get rid of half my clothes, but we're gonna have to do laundry more often - and we already don't do it enough.

And then there is everything else.  I'm a DVD freak - it's one of my vices, I love to own DVD's.  But, I'm going to have to get rid of a lot of them.  Not half of them, because they are in the same category as video games and video game systems, but an awful lot of them... like 150.  This will be difficult.

I'm still on board with this (but I've fitted a life jacket and found what I consider to be the best lifeboat), despite all the trepidation that is arising.  I know we'll be better off when we're done, I certainly don't need 400 DVD's - I have movies that I've probably watched once in five years, and some I've perhaps never watched... but what if I want to watch one?  It's not like there's some store out there that you can just walk into, pay a few bucks, and borrow a DVD to watch any time I would want to, that certainly doesn't exist (*shoves fingers in ears* La la la la la... I can't hear you...).  And I certainly don't need 30 t-shirts, I just like them.  But to have my dresser less packed, to not end up leaving ten loads of laundry to do every three weeks, and to spend less money on these things in the future will be a good thing.  Or so I'm told.

And, with all that said, I think things are going well.  After donating/throwing out the aforementioned 66 items of clothing, I was able to move all my hanging clothes into one closet, and Lauren and I actually went through the other closet and got rid of a bunch of other stuff - a sleeping bag we've never used, some ratty blankets and comforters, and a bunch of random stuff that we have decided fits into the joint "what the hell is that still doing in our house" category.  That's gonna be a fun category.  Who knows what we'll find - there could be a family of Keebler elves baking cookies in a tree that is growing in one of our closets and we wouldn't know it - that's how bad some of our closets are.  Luckily, we'll probably find a box full of broken pencils, Pez dispensers, and an extra flux capacitor that we can get rid of to offset keeping the cookie tree.