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July 22, 2008

Well, That's Done

These are the result of about an hour's hard work. These are the socks/sweaters/shirts/shorts/pants that are going to Goodwill. I will take them out to the car as soon as it stops raining.

I'd been meaning to clean out my clothing stash for a while. Suddenly, I couldn't close my shirt drawer, couldn't find pants when I needed them. Or shorts. Couldn't find the exercise gear I wanted without digging through mounds of stuff I never wear. So I bit the bullet, and starting with my sock drawer, I got rid of everything I no longer wear and also everything "questionable."

You know what I mean by "questionable." That shirt that you think "Maaayyyybeee I'll wear that again sometime" about, even though deep in your heart, you know you'll never put it on again. Or the sweater that you always wonder about, whether it's really as unappealing on you as you suspect it is, but you haven't done laundry and you need something in a hurry and it's not that bad, surely. Only, you know it is. I got rid of those clothes. And the "What was I thinking when I bought this?" clothes. I got rid of those too. Or, at least, got them out of my wardrobe. They're still sitting in sacks in the living room.

Sadly, I only actually went through about half of my apparel. I winnowed out the pants shelf, the sweater shelf, the t-shirt drawer, the sock drawer, the henley and turtleneck drawer and the other shirt drawer. Oh yes, also the workout gear drawer. I didn't even touch the four underwear drawers (hey, they're small and I did them already, they're sorted by type), the leggings drawer or the pajama drawer (ditto for having gone through them fairly recently). Nor did I even consider approaching the two closets. Yes, I have two closets. One is my clothes, with a few of Dave's stuffed in where they can fit. Also all of my shoes except for those in the pile on the bedroom floor. The other is the dry cleaned stuff and Dave's nice clothes.

But I think I went through the closet fairly recently. Like maybe last summer. I seem to remember doing that, anyway. And I seem to remember getting rid of a good wad of stuff then, too. Not four large grocery bags' worth, but a pretty big chunk.

Anyway, it feels nice to have it done and out of the way. Here's hoping I can keep the clothing sorted and organized, for a little while at least.

Posted by sally at July 22, 2008 03:25 PM

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