Wednesday, April 28, 2010

I've Had My Moments

There have been times in my life where having a clean room was not so out of reach. What is has really come down to for me is the amount of stuff that's in that room. In college, when I only brought what I needed with me, I was able to designate a place for everyyyyyything. I had bins and shelfs, storage towers and pant hangers, even desk organizers! I had a system.
aaaand even the closet is clean...wow...
um yeah...AMAZING...i have a clean room!
And (if you can imagine!) I got by with only those things! That is the key here. Get.rid.of.some.stuff. That's easier said than done. For a normal person, donating the clothes that fit two sizes ago should be a no brainer. But for me, I feel the need to keep that skirt I got at J. Crew in 2004; the one that is a size 6 (keep dreaming), salmon colored, corduroy, and has embroidered geese on it. Why? I don't know, maybe because I wore it on Thanksgiving that year and actually thought is was classic ("a skirt with embroidered geese on it, yes, that's totally something I will wear often and for years to come!"). And to be honest, I have put that goose skirt in a "give-away" bin more than once...just never got around to take the clothes out of my house!

So for me, the first mess that I really need to get a handle on is the stuff. The stuff I will never use/wear/look at again. While I work on cleaning (room by room is the plan), I will need to really cut back on my stuff. Lord help me, because this will be a challenge.

2 comments:

  1. "a skirt with embroidered geese on it, yes, that's totally something I will wear often and for years to come!"

    *snort*
    hahahahahaha

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  2. Hey Marj! I saw you following me and then realized that you actually had a blog, yay! LOL about the skirt with the geese on it.

    I'm a really bad packrat. I too have clothes that no longer fit and probably never will again. Recently I've been getting better about donating them to Goodwill, but it really is about time that I go through my closet. Again.

    Of course, Steve is an even worse packrat than I am...which does make me feel a *little* bit better! haha

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