By Laurel Borrowman
Life & Style Editor

I have way too much stuff. You
probably do too. Stuck in Purge-atory
is a weekly chronicle of the quest by
my roommate Emily and I to get rid

of extraneous excess in our lives by
giving away or throwing out one thing
everyday until the end of time.

y my calculations—
B Borrowmath, as I like to

call it—I have been on this
purge bender, roommate Emily
in tow, since November 11, 2011.
That means that this issue marks
approximately four months of
getting rid of stuff, once per day,
every day. Needless to say, we’ve
ditched a lot in the past four
months.

If we're getting precise here,
that means that 120 days have
passed (note: the running tally
below indicates 100 days. Over the
three weeks of Christmas break, we
too took a break). And that means
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each getting rid of one thing per
day, then we should have purged
240 items from our lives. I’m proud
to say that we have gone above and
beyond what was expected and
exceeded our goal by leaps and
bounds (see running tally below).
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past when we've gotten rid of
something significant, something
hefty, or something in copious
amounts.

This week’s purge took
place over the course of a mere
15 minutes, began with a pile of
mismatched plastic containers,
and ended with a neatly sorted

“This week’s purge took place over the course of a mere 15 minutes,
began with a pile of mismatched plastic containers, and ended witha
neatly sorted cupboard of lid-laden Tupperware.”

slack off a bit. I’ve done it before
(recall the post-holiday slump of
2012, when there was useless crap
as far as the eye could see), and I’m
doing it again. Which brings me

to this week in Purge-atory: Purge
Lite.

Purge Lite is a bit of a cop out,
the name derived from the ill-fated
Facebook Lite that went down in
flames in April 2010. In a similar
(but less creepy) vein, Purge Lite is
a slimmed down version of weeks

cupboard of lid-laden Tupperware.
I’m not a fan of eating out of plastic
containers in the first place, which
is why we have a vast collection

of glass jars for that purpose, but

they do come in handy on occasion.

While I find Tupperware annoying,
it indeed has a time and place.
What I find really annoying are
said plastic containers with no lid.
Like a sock that comes out of the
dryer, suddenly without a match,
Tupperware lids seem to disappear,

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rendering the container useless.
Just like the socks, I put it away,
and hope that on the next washing
cycle its match will turn up. It never
does.

And so, I give you Purge Lite,
the Tupperware edition. Here’s
what we got rid of this week.

9 lids with no matching
container

2 tins (those round ones that
hold Christmas treats, useless the
other 364 days per year)

6 warped containers with no
matching lids

Technically, we still exceeded the
goal of two things per day, or 14
items per week. It just felt like a bit
of a copout. Unlike Facebook Lite
though (and like the column states),
we ll be here, purging away, until
the end of time.

Days in Purge-atory: 100
Items purged this week: 17
Weekly target: 14

Total items purged to date: 326

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