Summer of Seven-My Tentative Schedule...

Considering I've just downloaded the book on my Kindle this morning and have only read the introduction, I'm kind of jumping in blind coming up with my schedule for reduction. The book, by the way-in case you missed this morning's post, is Jen Hatmaker's 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess.  But, we're all a-Twitter over this summer challenge to reduce the excess in our lives so that we can serve others better, and things tend to stick a little better when you put it down on paper...

Granted, none of this is carved in stone, and should the good Lord be willing to finally uproot us from this home here in Butler and grant us permission to go forth with our lives at last in Massachusetts, then there may be a burp or two in the schedule. But I looked over Bug's summer schedule to date, and how that all might possibly affect The Seven Schedule, and this is what I've come up with (along with reading the rest of the book for starters...) Henceforth:

June 1-7: Food-I'm following suit with Amy Dane and only eating what we have on hand in the house for the week. I'm not sure we could stick to only seven foods, especially being committed to meal plans on Spark People--to which I can easily configure around the contents of my pantry for the next seven days. I believe it's a go.

June 8-14: Clothes-Clothes horse that I most certainly am not, I don't see this to be trouble at all. I tend to stick to the same boring Tshirts, shorts or sweats every day, so choosing seven items of clothes (not including unders...) should be fairly easy. I guess the point, then, is why are there so many clothes hanging all wrinkled and dusty in my closet?? Mm-hmm...

June 15-21: Media-To give up seven forms of media for the week. Seven forms? I didn't know there were seven forms...I chose this week because Bug will be at camp and so ignoring the TV and the computer will be all that much easier without him being plugged in all day long (am I taking the challenge out of this, finding the easiest weeks and ways through??) I suppose I will have to hide away my tablet and cell phone (no texting????!!!!) that week...I think my heart just stopped...And if we're not allowed on the computer, just how will we blog about our week?? Anybody??

June 22-28: Possessions-I've been a purge-a-holic since this move thing first loomed dark over us. I love to pitch stuff (but that would be waste??) I believe there is to be a more purposeful redirection of purged possessions? Further reading is needed on this subject, but it's a month away so I should be caught up by then...

June 29-5 (I've noticed some of our other bloggers have skipped the holiday week?) Stress-There are some prayers in the book, which I'll be needing by this time if we're still without a buyer over my birthday week...

July 6-12: Spending-I had to jiggle this one to fall in between pay weeks since you're not supposed to do any form of money related transactions this week, including paying bills.

July 13-19: Waste-I have to read the rest of the book to figure out what we're supposed to do this week...

July 20-26: Self-A reflective week, looking back over the previous seven weeks and finding ways to create 'less of ourselves' in order to serve more of others. Looking forward to this week and seeing the amazing things God is gonna work in our lives this summer...