With H's permission, I am dragging everything out of his closet. It's stuffed to bursting with stuff he never wears, doesn't fit, is garishly ugly, etc. His mom is a thrift store shopper, so every so often piles of stuff will show up. It's perfectly good stuff, really, expect that it's wayyy too big or isn't his style. It's not the thrift store part I mind, either, it's the accumulation of stuff that just sits in a pile taking up room.
So now there are nice, neat piles on the big bed: collared golf shirts, t-shirts, turtlenecks and sweaters, outerwear jackets, button-up cloth shirts. I only counted 2 piles. 30 t-shirts. 17 golf shirts. And that's not counting anything that's folded in drawers or in the laundry. How many t-shirts does a person need, anyway?
He's agreed to whittle each pile down to about 5 items, and if he does it, it will eliminate more than half the bulk in that closet. Woo Hoo!
Then Dia can have closet space again. Yayyy!
A small house and this cussed recession have gone a long way toward helping us realize the 'less is more' philosophy.
(and having moved 4x in two years, I have already pared my own wardrobe down to similar standards.)
The trouble with having an open mind is that people put things in it.
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