Looking Forward to Better Days

[Dawn70]

I worked on our bedroom closet one day last week and it was a TON of work. I should probably say my closet, because while it is not a huge walk-in closet or anything, it is a decent size and Sparky has like 5 things hanging in it and one suitcase in the bottom of it. Everything else is mine. So I went through and really ruthlessly culled clothes and shoes. I am one of those people who has a crap ton of clothes but wears the same 5 or 6 things all the time. There really is no need for that much stuff. I have some nice blouses and dress pants that I never wear and since I'm a fat girl, I figured a local consignment shop might be my best bet because they are usually short on plus size clothes. Right now, the bags are still sitting in my dining room, because I didn't want to drive to town last week just for that, but I'm going to stop by a local shop this week while I'm in town for work and see if I can offload the stuff. That way I can earn a little money but not have to mess with it. Barring that, I don't know where I will donate them because I am not sure our local thrift store is currently taking clothing items.

It really is a huge task to fully clean out and organize a closet. I thought I could do it in an hour or so and I literally worked like 6 hours one day getting it done and still need to make another pass through and cull out some more stuff. I have decided, though, that January is my organization month. I get up at 4:15 am with Sparky and he leaves for work at 4:45. I don't leave for work until 5:45 so that gives me an hour to get ready and organize something. So, I'm making a point of organizing one thing every morning in my "down time" before I leave for work. This morning, I tackled the kitchen drawers. We have a small, galley style kitchen with only 4 small, narrow drawers so I had to be creative in how I organized them to hold all of our stuff, but still be usable. I also purged some of the extras of the several veggie peelers, extra pizza cutters and metric crap ton of paring knives of varying quality. I was pleased with how it all looked when I left, if I do say so myself.