3/4/2019 0 Comments Day 1Day 1 of my travel through Lent... and boy was it a doozy. First of all, I think we're all on the verge of coming down with something. My mother-in-law said there was influenza A in her classroom this week... let's hope that's not it. Anyway, I'm so totally zonked, and so are my kids. They did behave pretty well on account of it, but still. But, I was bound and determined! So as soon as I got the kids set up and got my worship music going, I tackled the closet. Uffda. Check this out: Maybe it doesn't seem all that bad, but it was stressing me out nonetheless. And it needed to be dealt with. The first thing I did was gather all the dirty laundry, as well as combine it with the rest from around the house. Have fun, Husband. I'm out! Next, I took out all the bedding I had ambitiously pulled into the closet to sort.... like 4 months ago. For now, it just needed to get out of the way. That's better! On to the stuff hanging in the back that never ever gets worn; in this case: Brian's Eagle Scout uniform, his pirate costume from Junior High we're still hanging on to for some reason, a bridesmaid dress that I have actually reworn once already and keep for super fancy occasions, and a dress I am absolutely in LOVE with and HAVE to wear... but haven't gotten invited to anything that would merit it's glory... In case you didn't catch the hint, PLEASE SOMEONE INVITE ME TO SOMETHING SO I CAN WEAR THIS DRESS!!!!!! Moving on to the land of the sane (who am I kidding?), next I pulled out my husband's sports coats and his "super spiffy" (as my toddler calls it) three-piece navy pin-stripe suit saved for extra special occasions. It's barely March, and this is Minnesota. He'll be wearing much warmer clothing than these for quite some time yet. This is that time of year when I start getting really jealous of all my friends in warmer climates and their new spring decor... I pull mine out on April Fools'. It seems appropriate. Here's another beauty I hang on to for no reason. Turns out, with my new diagnosis, I have to wear compression on my legs all day every day, and even with the wonderful invention of compression yoga pants that expands my options beyond tall stockings, how the heck are you supposed to style this dress with compression-wear underneath it? I'm waiting on a stroke of genius... Next I pulled out all of my husband's dress shirts, pants, ties, and belts excepting the 2 sets he decided to keep out with his suit. Don't judge him for the height of his stack. He's a seminarian. It comes with the territory. We don't have much hanging up for the kids, but I did pull out these two dresses that have been there for months for Nae-nae. The Christmas one got a wear out of it before it was too small, but the other one is surprisingly impossible to style. It's too poofy to put a sweater over, and the only dress shoes she has are black. I'm not about to go out and buy more clothing in order to make this dress work. They're both going to Once Upon a Child to help raise money for a new car. Phew! This is the spot in the basement where I put all of the hanging clothes we are purposefully keeping out of circulation for the time being. We agreed before all of this on the amount of items we would each need to get through a week, and to store all the rest of it in order to cut down on laundry and really get the most of the clothes that we're wearing. I have no idea how long this will last, but I'm excited to stop spending hours of my week addressing laundry. So here's the progress report. Doesn't look like much of a change since last picture, but you saw how much came off the closet rod. On to Brian's shoes. All the one's on the left are headed for the basement, and the ones on the right for the shoe closet along with the brown shoes he was wearing at class during this whole escapade. No more shoes in the closet! Does anyone get keeping shoes in the closet? I don't. You wear slippers around the house, don't you? If you keep shoes upstairs, then they have to sit on the rug downstairs for awhile first before all the snow or mud dries up, and then you have to carry them all the way upstairs. So many extra inefficient steps. What a big old pile of nope! See that! That is the pile of my husband's clothes after I asked him to pare down. Apparently, we have different definitions. Thankfully, we talked about it more in detail on the way home from visiting family this weekend, and we came to a consensus: The goal was to cut down our clothes in everyday circulation to what we could wear in a week with the primary goal of being able to put away all the clothes without folding (except his sweaters). The kids and I were already at that point, simply because our sizes are changing so frequently we don't have a lot of time to accumulate. But he's been the same size for over 10 years now, so it was a bit of a chore. But, we did it! Woo-hoo!! Ugh, life is going to be easier already! And there you have it, folks! The finished product! Well... there's still these... ...but we'll save those for another day.
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