I said a few blogs back that I can always tell when a part of my house needs attentions. How do I know because I avoid that area like it’s a germ infested public restroom. I’m mean really I try not to go to that part of the house unless I have to.
A few weeks ago I was so busy with the end of year art show, school ending, grades, teaching and so on and so on. I noticed one morning that I was living outside my closet. I would do laundry and stack it all nice and neat on the bench outside the door. Yep it had happened I wouldn’t go in my closet because it had become a OCD night mare. I knew that when everything was over and summer started it would be my first project. So First day of my summer was Monday and I jumped in with both feet.
I think what happened was when life got busy I had a “nothing fits” morning and I tossed closes all over the floor in piles looking for something that wasn’t to big. I cleaned out my closet 6 months ago but I’ve lost more weight and now nothing fits again. So the few things I can wear which isn’t much at all is what I was washing and stacking nice and neat on the bench. Never to go in my closet again or until life slowed down and I could clean this mess up.
I started the morning by grabbing 2 LARGE garbage bags. One for trash, I wouldn’t give this to my enemy things and the other bag for Goodwill donation. I slowly went through it all, what a mess so many things I wore once if at all. When you have this type of surgery your size can change very fast. Even though I’m at the end of my journey of loosing my size changes often because of the working out. The scale might not change but my size does.
I had no idea how little clothing I had until I cleaned it all out. Wow I need to go shopping I guess. I kinda like this simple clothing life I have come into. I mean I don’t go out dressed up much so why have tones of outfits I’ll only wear once or twice. I think I’m gonna lay out a plan to outfit my closet with items that can be interchangeable and things I will wear often.
I really enjoyed getting rid of things. Once I was done with my clothing I moved on to other things. I tossed out shoes that I don’t wear but every once in a while. If I really thought about it some of these shoes haven’t been up close and cozy with my feet in years. Yes that’s right I have shoes I haven’t worn in years. I hate the shoes I wore to my daughter’s wedding because they killed my feet so bad. I wouldn’t get rid of them because I wore them to her wedding. My daughter could care less if I keep them or not so out they went. I got rid of purses, scarves, jewelry and so much more.
At the end of the day after all was back in place and the Goodwill haul was in my truck to be dropped off in the morning I felt so accomplished. I was free from the torment of going into or not going into my own closet. I guess if you really think about it life can be compared to the mess in my closet. We let things get out of control until we just have to go in and toss out the unwanted, pare down the unneeded and settle our minds with what we really need and no more.
My closet is clean so I’m off to the next thing on my list. I’m on a mission to get my house completely in order before summer is under way. Tuesday is a Blue Happy day so go get your Blue Happy on!
