Closets

I did the unthinkable - I cleaned out my closet.
When things seem overwhelming to me, I tend to procrastinate.
But I finally sucked it up and dove into my closet.
It only took 2 days. Saturday and Sunday were closets all day each day.
(new flooring too, but that was the easy part)

At one point yesterday Rick came upstairs and checked on me.
He found me lying on the floor.
Rick told me that I would get done much sooner if I didn't take floor naps.
I wasn't napping, I was giving myself a break.
Figures he'd walk in at that moment in time so he could bust my chops. 

Everything came out of my closet and clothes went on the bed.
Shoes were all over the bedroom as well. 
I went through them all.

I do have a lot of shoes. I admit it.
Most need to go. I am no longer wearing 4-inch heels.
I no longer have a job that requires that type of shoe wear.
At this moment in time, I am barefoot at my desk.
For a woman with tons of shoes, you'd think I would wear them more.
Shh....don't point this out to my Big Guy.

Once Rick said to me, "how many black pairs of shoes do you need Margaret?"
I responded with, "how many fishing lures do you need Rick?"
His reply was a laughing "Touché"

I currently have 9 drawers. 5 in my dresser I share with Rick in the bedroom and 4 in my closet where I have another dresser. I still do not have enough drawers. So I move summer T-shirts to a Rubbermaid bin. Then move those to drawers in summer and move sweaters to my rubber maid bin. I need drawers and places for shoes, more than hanging space.

What I really need is to have a custom walk-in closet instead of just a walk in closet. But I can't afford one so I have to do what I can do. 
After hearing all this you'd think I would have a great wardrobe. 
But I do not. 
More like a retail store. Sizes 8 to 20. 

I finally got rid of the fat clothes from my days of being sick but for some reason kept a couple of things. Now, that was just silly. Yes, they are beautiful but I'm never going to wear them. They can't be altered I tried. They are just gorgeous and expensive and I don't even wear fancy shit like that anymore. 
But if I were being honest it all just reminds me of a time when I was so very sick which made me so heavy and miserable. I hid inside my home and surely wasn't living my life, working, traveling for work and being sick was my whole life. So there is that part of it too.

So no longer ill, no need for those big clothes. 
We just keep the chubby clothes. :-)
So they went into a pile for Dress for Success or other donation places.  
Then there was the pile of just toss 'em. 
Why keep that sweater with the stain you can't remove and you won't wear? Taking up space - toss it.
I must admit it felt so good to purge. 
I let go of everything I have not worn in 2 years. 

I have a lot of shoes. But only 2 pairs of shoes that I can't ever wear.
One is a cute sandal but too flat, they hurt my feet. Wore them once inside my house for the day and hated them. Never even wore them outside. 
The other is a bootie with a 4-inch heal that I can no longer wear because I no longer will wear painful shoes just because they are cute.
I have a friend coming to visit from Orange County California in 2 weeks.
She and I wear the same size shoe and her last visit she took some of my heels. 
She's younger than me and still wears big heels. I'd love to get them reheeled if there is such a thing. They are just so damn cute but it's just the heel. If it were high and a chunky heel - great, I wear those. 
But I don't think they can do that, can they?

I have a window in my closet which faces the front of my house. 
Isn't that a dumb thing to put in a big closet? 
I sprayed that stuff that makes your windows look frosted. 
It did exactly what I needed it to do. 
I kept the blinds on the window but this frost is helpful.
Because I had a dresser in front of the window the bottom half wasn't done. So yesterday I frosted the complete window.
I get dressed in my closet and honestly having a window is so weird to me. 
I used this stuff on my sidelights on my front door because I kept seeing people peek into our sidelights when they rang the bell. I guess that is human nature but it's creepy to me. So I frosted them. My neighbor liked the idea and did hers when she saw mine. It really is easy to do and comes off like a charm with some acetone.

Well, I digressed, see why it took me so long to do my closet.
I tried things on, I made piles, I found things I forgot about. 
But lo and behold I now have a neat, clean, somewhat organized closet. 

Now we have to tackle Rick's closet. I would love to do it myself because it will get done. But we'll have to do this together. He is another person with a lot of shoes. Yet he wears the same ones all the time. 
Back in the day of our corporate days, we had his walk-in closet done by a professional. He just needs to thin out the clothes that he never wears. 

My goal is to do this to Rick's closet, a 3rd-floor closet, and my pantry before spring. I think I can do this. I'm lucky to have 2 walk-in closets in the master is what I have learned. I don't want to share a closet when we move and that is going to be very difficult to find. I love our place I just wish it were 1 floor, a bigger laundry room, a bigger pantry and I could park in front of my house. 
Then I could live here until I die. 
Now if it were a self-cleaning house then I'd never leave even if I had to crawl up the stairs. Wouldn't that be the perfect house? 
A self cleaning home for sale. I think it would sell in a heart beat even if awful inside. 

Someone told me to watch the new Netflix special on organization.
I will not. I'll save that for the wealthy. The cost invested in all the things those folks make you buy to store your things is more than I wish to spend.
It cost my friend just shy of  $500 in containers and God knows how much she paid for the organizational person who came to her home to help her. I was afraid to ask. But I know this was not cheap. In her defense, her home is very organized and most in her family have done what they need to do to keep it that way.

I don't have that kind of money anymore so you'll see me doing this myself, I can afford my fee. I'm cheap, just a procrastinator. 😛