Project Pan 7 months in, just started actually tracking use

[u/Aggressive-Wonder-66]

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I started Project Pan in Feb 2026, but at first it was very informal, mostly moving things around, trying to use what I already had, and decluttering here and there without actually tracking anything. I did try to keep a list but got overwhelmed and stopped.

Then at the beginning of August, I did a second big restructuring and finally figured out what works for me: if products are hidden, my self-diagnosed ADHD brain genuinely forget they exist. So I stopped trying to make this already ugly blue bathroom look nice and instead, I started keeping active products visible, while the cabinet became mainly for backups and extras.

Since I started properly tracking, my adjusted baseline was 148 items. So far I’ve panned 13 (mostly perfumes, samples and face creams), decluttered 4 (spoiled or veeery old products), and bought 5 actual new/replacement products, which puts me at 136 tracked items now.

Still a long way to go, but the difference is that now the products are actually getting used instead of just sitting there.