Foolishness about decluttering

[walkitout]

Let’s play a little game. I think we all know the one in one out rule.

The one in two out rule was rudely brought to our attention a few years ago, during 45’s tenure when he attempted — futilely — to apply it to government regulations.

How many of these can we fine?

https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/one-in-three-out-decluttering-rule-37017243

I’m not finding anything for one-in-four-out; mostly I got HDMI splitter boxes.

5 out appears to have something meaningful to do with basketball. Please do not explain it to me.

6 produced more splitter boxes.

7 produces some stuff about craps. Please do not explain it to me.

8 taught me about 8 out of 10 cats.

9 had a lot of stuff about percentages and arithmetic tricks.

The usual suspects have one for the number 10: https://www.theminimalists.com/in/. I found it via secondary coverage at apartment therapy, and that’s what kicked this off.

I was hoping for more people blogging about experiments along these lines, but apparently no.

Comments

Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

One of my relatives set a resolution to remove one thing from her house every day, all year. It's the most ambitious one I've seen recently. I sure couldn't do it.

Re: Well ...

[ethelmay]

I saw one for one thing on the first day of the month, two on the second, three on the third. Very relieved to find it was arithmetic and not geometric progression.