How to Explore Inner Space by Cleaning Out Your Closet
Everyone and every country with a captive population’s tax money to spend is spending it on global communication or trying to communicate with another galaxy while looking for a human-friendly planet or two to colonize.
The most pressing problem for the average household, and certainly closer to home, is inner space. Or rather, the lack of space. Right here in our homes, to be exact.
The groundhog, Mardi Gras, and warmer days are all sounding the alarm to women that it’s time to check out our closets.
Of course, that’s not the most popular job in the world. But be brave. You can do it. Have confidence. Just take a deep breath, and open your closet doors. Get a good grip on a door facing and start thinking of a Plan of Action.
Get a couple of big trash bags. One for Throw Away and one for Give Away. Notice there is no bag provided for Keep in Case. In case being: (a) In case I lose weight. (b) In case I gain weight. (c) In case this God-awful color gets popular again. (d) Or, I like it! It may come back in style?
My big double closet that has most of my things in it has summer clothes in one side and winter clothes in the other.
When I opened it, the winter side looked like it had a leather floor because all my boots were in there. There were my new boots with heels; old boots which are warm and comfortable for shopping; and two rain boots. One of the rain boots was a pair of ugly galoshes – which were the first to go.
This is where you go get another trash bag for shoes.
My new boots got to stay; the old comfortable walking boots too. The galoshes went first. Then on thinking it over, the lighter rain boots went too. I no longer park and walk across parking lots in the rain. I’ve adopted the shopping-in-non-rush-hours-park-close-and-run like-heck option. So, moving right along, we’re through with shoes and boots.
If it’s no longer being used is the thing to keep in mind about discarding things on hangers. Other chiseled in stone rules for everything from the floors on both sides of the closet, on hangers, and on the shelves too are : (1) Everything which doesn’t fit. (2) Anything predating the last two wars. (3) Everything which looks better on the hanger than it does on me. (4) Everything I didn’t like all that well when I got it. (5) Things my husband doesn’t like. (6) Things my children laugh at. (7) Things that rate less than seven on a comfort scale of one-ten. (8) Things used on occasions so seldom they rate cleaners covers, like formal nights on Cruise ships. ()r I’m just tired of looking at them and two friends have the same thing in a different color! Or (10) I just don’t like them-the dresses, not the friends.
It will take a while to get through all the useless clutter if it’s been a while since you had the last weeding out session. Here are some encouraging thoughts to keep you going:
(1) I never liked this-that-or the other anyway. I’m glad it’s gone! Accompanied by a toss and maybe visions of some things to take their places.
(2) (Looking around inside the closet.) Wow! There’s a lot of space here!
(3) Next time I do this, I’ll be a lot better organized.
This last step is optional but it works well for me and it’s good for the economy.
Clean up the floor of the closets now that you can see it, while you run yourself a fragrant bubble bath to relax in. Think of all the junk you threw away and be glad it’s gone. Rejoice at all that nice clean room you’ve got now. Get out feeling refreshed.
Now you’re cleaned up your inner space and you’re ready for all those end of season and beginning of season sales – Charge!
