100 things continued, my list

How do you decide? What do you really need? How do you know how much space you'll need (in your Airstream) for the stuff you'll need. Here's my first stab at my '100 list'.

(33) Clothes:
Leave this aside for now...I just found a reference to the "333 Living Challenge" that suggests that you select 33 items that you wear for the next 3 months and pack everything else way. I could look into that. Later. So we'll count this as items 1 to 33, which include my 2 rings, 1 bracelet, two sets of earrings, two necklaces, hiking boots and several scarves. (Yikes, that's eight already!)

(about 20) Specific kitchen things that I really need to have...I'm getting an Airstream with a basic kitchen in it, so I can cook meals and snacks, even in the rain...

    My father had these in his briefcase and always said they were the most essential tools in the kitchen
  1. tea kettle
  2. coffee press
  3. 10" chef knife
  4. wooden spoon
  5. wire whisk
  6. Braun blending stick (just like my Bonmaman used to make her amazing soups)
  7. Ninja Blender (A's amazing hummus requires a blender)
  8. paring knife
  9. boning knife
  10. honing stone and oil
  11. spices (can I count these as one item?)
  12. a HUGE pile of cotton kitchen towels
  13. (2) 12 x 18 heavy weight aluminum cooking sheets
  14. parchment paper (does this count, since it is a supply?)
  15. Betty's roasting pan
  16. Betty's big aluminum pot, perfect for summer sweet corn for a crowd
  17. Papa's extra large wooden salad bowl and serving spoon & fork
  18. my rolling pin that has the singe mark on one side
  19. pottery and my favorite mug (it makes me happy to sip coffee from A's perfect size mug, and munch snacks from C's little bowls) and utensils
  20. table cloth and napkins
(10) Personal Items:
  1. toothbrush & toothpaste
  2. shampoo
  3. soap (I use up the lifetime supply of  little hotel size bars of soap that we have stashed away from all of T's work travel...We will NEVER have to purchase bar soap.)
  4. Clinique face cream
  5. coconut butter lip balm
  6. towel set (I am one of the only members of my family that uses a face cloth, hand towel, and bath towel...I guess if I had to, I could make do with just the hand towel...but is this about "making do"?)
  7. one set sheets
  8. bed pillows
  9. quilt
  10. blanket
(about 20) My things, these are the things that I choose to bring, that no one can give me a hard time about having with me...
  1. easel
  2. paint bag with tools and supplies
  3. a few canvases, more can be purchased along the way, or primed and painted over
  4. can of brushes
  5. Moleskine notebook
  6. pocket sketchbook/watercolor book
  7. Moleskine calendar
  8. pencil case/pens/pencils
  9. photos in my phone, a few printed and framed of family and friends
  10. radio (my brother gave me a hand cranked emergency radio that I think I'd bring along)
  11. phone and charger and earbuds
  12. iPad and charger and keyboard
  13. Kindle and charger (do library books count, since they are really not mine?)
  14. Baggalini backpack/purse
  15. wallet
  16. passport (I have a friend who says she never leaves home without her passport, in case someone asks her to go to Paris. With a passport and a credit card she says she can go anywhere anytime.)
  17. carry-on suitcase, in case someone asks me to go to Paris
(4 more) And I look in my sock drawer at the most important things I have tucked in between the stockings I never wear and bed socks that my nieces gave me many Christmases ago that I wear every night: Papa's 10" chef knife whisk and wooden spoon (already counted above), Mum's tin "batching" pot that we used to ladle water from the milk pail that we hauled from the well to our cabin in a red wagon. The set of gnomes Mmere knit for me. Ppere's combination square. Betty's needle-pointed pin cushion. That's 5 more very important things from very important people.

Doesn't everyone keep things like this in the bottom of their sock drawer?
(about 10) And a few special activity items:
  1. canoe
  2. paddle
  3. (2) life jackets
  4. pocket knife
  5. backpack
  6. ThermaRest
  7. sleeping bag
  8. (2) folding chairs
  9. deck of playing cards
  10. flashlight/headlamp
That's 97. (OK, so don't look too closely at my math on this one...it is a draft after all.)
I can totally fit all this into a wee little Airstream! What might be your 100 items?

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