sorry mom, and why I love my husband (with more pics)

1.  Sorry about the toothpaste dispenser, mom, and thanks for reading my blog :)

And sorry about the movie, Flushed Away, sis, but thanks for understanding. When we decided to get rid of half our stuff, we didn't think about the casualties and how one goes about explaining to family members that it is not that I didn't like and appreciate the gift, I just didn't like it enough to keep it.

But, as my favorite organizational expert Peter Walsh would advise, we should not keep something out of guilt, and we must not lose sight of our goal, because that is what got us here in the first place!  So, on we go, trying to only keep things that we truly need or that bring us joy and are worth making room in our lives for.

2.  My husband loves a challenge, and once he commits to something, it's over.  He will not only succeed, but he will continue to outdo everyone, including himself, on his inevitable path to victory.  We've been talking about our categories, and at first Brett was going to make entertainment one big category so he wouldn't necessarily have to get rid of half of his DVD's, since he was planning to get rid of several old gaming systems and the games that go with them, that would have bought him a few extra movies, but then he started going through his DVD's and decided he could get rid of half of them after all.  (See pictures below)  And then he got to thinking more and decided he thinks we can get rid of half of our furniture, and maybe we can part with half of our small appliances, and while we're at it we should probably include getting at least halfway to our weight loss goals (since when was this part of the plan?), and maybe we could cut our grocery bill in half....and while his suggestions get a bit scarier by the day for me, I can't help but love and admire him for taking this challenge to a new level, and if he thinks we can do it, who am I to say, "You Want to do WHAT?  Who's the crazy one?!?"  He even outdoes me at being me....what can't this man do?

Brett's original DVD collection numbering over 500 filled these custom shelves he built:

And, this smaller black DVD rack that you can see to the left of laundry-covered love seat--the right side has a door that is closed and covering more DVDs (yes, we should have opened it for the picture, but said DVD rack is no longer with us):

Now, here are the stacks of DVD's that left our home for good last night:

And here are the now half-emptied shelves:

And as I mentioned earlier, Brett decided to also part with the black DVD rack, thus halve-ing his DVD holding furniture, and that item will count towards our furniture total.

So way to go, awesome husband!