Day Two: Slow and Steady

I have avoided thinking too much about the Minimalist Challenge. Towards the end of the second day, I hadn't made any definite decisions of must-go items. I thought, however, our kitchen drawer is probably a nice treasure trove of things that are not needed.

The picture does not do complete justice as to how much junk there really is in the drawer. The truest experience of the go-to repository of things best unseen but not placed in a proper location can be found in the process of opening and closing the drawer, met with a tad of resistance because there's just too much stuff to open cleanly.

From the depth, I pulled these two plastic pieces:

I did not see any accompanying packing tape for the left piece. As for the Kerokerokeropi PEZ dispenser, that item has a very specific memory which created a bit of reluctance to dump. I bought this dispenser at the Cincinnati airport before Z's first plane trip. It was also Z's first but not last PEZ dispenser. To be honest, she was definitely too young to use and probably too young to have. We were traveling to Boston for NAFSA in May 2015.

PEZ carry an extra significance because Z's godmother is a PEZ dispenser collector. However, I won't tell godmother or Z that I passed Kerokerokeropi on. In fact, seeing and knowing the amount of space collecting something like PEZ dispensers can require make it easier to minimize.

Karla is on board the Minimalist Challenge too. And here are our Day Two totals: