What's a "thing"?

Some people have asked what the definition of a thing is. Today, I will answer this pressing question, since I know it's been keeping you up at night. Unlike what's keeping me up at night, which is 15 pounds of smiles.

A thing is anything that I have made a choice to keep in the past but now am choosing to get rid of. Garbage, or anything I would have thrown out had I known about it, does not count - like junk mail, even if it ends up falling behind something and I find it later. I did not choose to keep it so it isn't tallied. In addition, an item that has been replaced does not count - for example, getting rid of your old toaster when you have purchased a new one.

On the other hand, clipped coupons from junk mail that I have kept but now want to get rid of - those count. Plastic bags that I was saving - they count too. Or, if I saved the toaster to "fix later" but now have decided that that was a stupid thing to do and I'll never fix it so I might as well get rid of it now because what's the point of keeping it - THEN getting rid of the toaster counts.

I guess in my mind it comes down to intent.

Of course, you can make up your own rules. The nice thing about making up your own crazy challenge is that you can make up your own rules, however odd they seem to others.