I’ve just about beaten the “I like/need/want/encourage-you to get rid of things” topic like some kind of Rodney King (too soon?), but since it’s a constant theme in my life, you are coming along for the beat down.  I hate messes, and have been struggling with finding a place/home/compartment for all of the little knickknacks that I possess.  I decided the best way to really find a place for all these things would be to scatter them across the floor of my office.  That way I see them everyday (sometimes stepping on them and hurting myself), and am reminded that I need to find a place for each and every one of them.

I know what some of you are thinking, ‘just throw them all in a drawer, everyone has a drawer with random stuff in it’.  Well I’m not you,  I don’t think like you, and I don’t want your drawer of indecision in my house. So my floor (after much organizing already) looks like this:

Hurricane Knickknackatrina

One thing that is not in that pile is a small game/toy called Fifteen Puzzle.  It is a sliding-tiles number puzzle (mosaic-like) that you will most likely recognize from your childhood.  It’s not in the pile because I have already decided where it’s going.

Fifteen Puzzle

Accompanying the puzzle is a red pleather case (pictured underneath the puzzle) and a booklet that has various solutions that you are challenged to accomplish.  What I have done is packaged this puzzle up and addressed the envelope to one of my lucky friends.  Included with the puzzle/case/booklet is a half-sheet of instructions that read something to the effect of:

1. Pick any solution in the booklet that isn’t checked/initialed
2. Take a picture of both the puzzle in the booklet and your solution side-by-side
3. Post the picture on Facebook and tag yourself and who sent this to you (and they will do the same, so that the trail can be followed by all involved)
4. Check/initial the puzzle you did in the booklet like those before you
5. Send this puzzle, booklet, and instructions on to someone who will do the same

No need to ask to be the recipient since I’ve already chosen the lucky one, and where it goes after that is up to them.  If it will fizzle out with the first recipient (sometimes we think too highly of our friends), or not even arrive at it’s destination, is yet to be seen.  But here’s to creative and fun ways of getting rid of your shit.

P.S. You can track the progress in the Fifteen Puzzle Facebook Album.