One of my early goals is to start being less dependent on the day to day things we have to have, or so we tell ourselves. That being said, I have acknowledged that I am a pack rat and too dependent on materialistic things. Time for a change.
So the first thing I did was go through my entire basement and pulled anything that I haven't used in over a year, basically previous hobbies, clothes, books, etc... I am in the process of organizing everything I have removed from the basement and putting price stickers on it to sell in my yard sale. My next step will be to craigslist and ebay anything I did not sell in the yard sale. Then I will basically repeat the same process all over again with things I haven't used in 6 months again for 3 months. At this point I'll be able to potentially begin living a reduced lifestyle.