January experiment: COMPLETED!!!

Well we made it.

I cheated more than my kids did. :) But I didn't cheat too much. Mostly I should have chosen different items than I did. I have a few shirts that are my total "go to" shirts. I wear them ALL THE TIME. I figured it would be a good thing to not choose them for my 6 items because it would force me to wear something else. That didn't work, I just wore them anyway! Oh, well.

The boys ended up with more than 6 items at the end of the month, but that's okay. I haven't been feeling well lately (well it's getting better now, yay for no gallbladder!) so we had a few times where my mom was taking the boys for the night and I had to dig out clothes from the garage for them to take to her house because theirs were in the dirty clothes.

My final thoughts on it:

~It was way easier to keep up with laundry. I hate putting laundry away, but it was so much more manageable with fewer items. I often skipped the folding process and just carried the laundry basket around with me to put the clothes away.
~I started the month out by moving all the boys extra clothes into Jax's closet. That didn't work. They quickly found the other clothes and started bringing them out. I finally packed all the extra away in the garage. Should have just done that in the first place.
~We really don't need as many clothes as we have. When I brought the clothes back in I majorly sorted them. I had a whole garbage bag full of stained clothes. Why in the world was I keeping the boys stained clothes??? I also filled 2 bags to donate. They still have plenty of clothes left.


I'm glad we did it. I'm thankful for what we have. We have so much more compared to the rest of the world. It almost feels petty to do an experiment like this and then go back to our closet full of clothes. Makes me feel like a rich american. I wish I could say the boys learned something from this, but I'm not too sure they even noticed. We talked about it a bit, but they can only comprehend so much! :)