Corrupt a Wish

To find out what to keep and what to throw out from your closet, you hang all your clothes with the hanger backward from your usual way. The idea is that after one year, you throw out every garment that is still hanging backwards. As the year progresses, you smile at the backwards hangers waiting for the day of the purge/donation and start rewarding yourself with some stylish new pieces. But suddenly it's April, and April's weather is crazy. Hot one day, rainy the next, even snow and sleet. On that cold day, the heater breaks and you wear everything in one big layer. Now that everything has been off the hangers at least once, you have more clothes than ever.

As you go over your old magazines, you decide to rid yourself of all magazines that don't have any substantial articles. As you read through your old magazines, your interest in many subjects is peeked and you go to the bookstore and buy big coffee-table books with large photos and little text about each subject. You now have more accumulated random knowledge than ever before.

You go through your kitchen drawers and cupboards to purge unneeded things. You find a couple of old ladles and an old-fashioned cheese grater. The day after you throw it out because you really buy cheese already grated, your mom visits. She asks about the cheese grater she gave you when you moved out. You tell her that you let a friend use it. To replace it, you start going to garage sales where you find hundreds of too-cheap-to-pass-up kitchen items. You now have to buy an extra cupboard to build in for all your kitchen utensils.

I wish this activity was in an interactive where adding chapters is more orderly. (Let's see you corrupt this one. )