Where to start?

I have been receiving a host of email correspondence from people wanting to embrace the 100 Item Challenge but unsure of where to start.  So here goes a easy step process

• First, take inventory.  You have to do this if you don’t, then you won't know how much to keep.
• Next, mark the must-keep stuff. There are certain things you know you’re going to keep. Your autographed Noel Edmonds picture. Your ipod. Mark those with a star, count how many those are, to see how many you have left.
• Then, the borderline stuff. What is stuff you might want to keep, but you’re not sure yet? Mark them with a circle or something, and see where your count is. If you’re over 100, you have some cutting to do. Cut until you get down to 100.
• Get rid of the rest. Everything you’re not going to keep, you should get rid of. You have some options: donate it to charity; find someone who wants it; list it on Freecycle; throw it away; sell it on eBay or a car boot sale. You could end up making some good cash on this. However you do it, get rid of it.
• Decide how to count things. It’s really up to you. Do you count books individually? Probably not — count them as one collection. How about a computer system? Your ipod and assorted gear? A good rule-of-thumb you might use: if everything goes in one case, count it as one item. If it’s all separate, count it as multiple items.

So that is a bit of a start for you all.  Keep us posted with your progress.