Matt's Blog

Bufe at church mentioned to me the other Sunday, Christmas I think, that the blog had been inactive recently. Very inactive. It's true. One of my New Year's resolutions is, as always, to keep up better with the blog. I'm looking to put up a post a day, on average. So some of them will obviously be lame. Take this one for example.

One thing I hope to do on this blog this year is to document one of my other resolutions, the great purge. Our life is cluttered. Too much stuff! I am made aware of this daily, but the Christmas season brings this into even clearer focus for me. So this year, room by room, closet by closet, drawer by drawer, things are going to go. What's the adage? If it's not useful (and used), beautiful (and looked at/listened to), or meaningful, it's going out. Well that's the plan.

I started with my game collection. I decided that I would get it under 100 games. I know that sounds like a ridiculously high number to most, but I'm a bit of a game geek, and it's all I really collect. And it turns out, this part of the purge was actually pretty easy. I took the kids games off my list--doesn't seem fair that those should count against me--and that was that. My collection is now at 98, even with the new games acquired this Christmas. And that includes games that are in Mare and my classrooms, which really shouldn't be on the list at all as far as I'm concerned.

Here's the list: Click here for Matt's big list o' games.

A number of these are on the trade pile, although I don't know too many people that want them. But even counting those and the classroom games, I've still got a little wiggle room to pick something up at the thrift store if I see it.