I'm not quite back to bare legs yet, but if you are a college aged guy around here, it's evidently full out short weather here now.
So I figured it was probably time to stop making the winter time excuses and attack the back hall closet.
Ugh. While we were smart enough to spring for having a few of our closets done a couple years ago, you'd never know it looking at this one.
It had become the land of "dump and run." Otherwise known as "shove and ignore." It was bad.
I made myself pull everything out and really give it a hard look. Most of that process isn't interesting enough to talk about here, but I did come up with a few valuable lessons I'll share with all of you.
1. When you have a bug in your house that you don't want to be there, you are not likely to go digging for a cute fly swatter. Nope, if you are anything like us, what you do is scream (okay well you might not do that), tell your spouse they have to deal with it, and then finally one of you will just hit it with whatever you can find. A shoe, Time Magazine, a dish rag. But never the actual fly swatter. Which is why this one was brand new. And will now be leaving us.
2. If you removed something from a coat because it made you look like an animal was eating your head, that probably isn't going to change. That doesn't go away with age. You can throw it away and life will go on.
3. Let's say you have a bamboo plant that is potted in little pebbles. And let's say that pot gets broken and the pebbles spill all over the place. Just a thought, but it's probably not a great idea to scoop them all up and put them in a tupperware and tightly seal the lid. And then throw it in the closet for a year. Stuff just might grow in there. Maybe.
4. You don't need giant storage tubs for two hats.
5. If you still have winter boots from 15 years ago, not only are they ugly, but chances are they are starting to spontaneously decompose. You can get new ones. Really.
6. But you can get rid of a lot of stuff. Including 10 pairs of shoes that either don't fit the kids anymore. Adding up to a total of 22 pounds.
And in doing so, you can get a closet that looks more like this.
We're up to a grand running total of:
397 pounds of clutter!
