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Cleaning out My Closet- Part Two
Here is Part One of our story, in case you missed it.
First I’d like to apologize if The Man contacted you to ask you to harass me about finishing up the closet. I’m sure he hunted down a few of you.
Here’s what I did this week: The way that I do a lot of unwanted chores is by having other, even less appealing chores to do, and in order to postpone those, I do the first unwanted chore. Take for example today, I really should be cleaning a bathroom or two, but that’s way lower on the scale than cleaning the closet, so I’ll work on the closet instead.
I’m starting to see some progress. And the floor.
I have collected all of the unused and expired medicine that I found. After a little research, I discovered this from the FDA and that from the DEA to help you decide what to do with them.
You may have already seen that I happened upon 18 Oregon Ducks t-shirts and 8 sweaters. I also came across a pair of Oregon Ducks shorts and a sports bra. For any of you that don’t know me yet, NO! I did not give any of them away. I have a plan to make a T-shirt quilt out of them. Stay tuned for that. Some day.
Cleaning out My Closet- Part One
The whole family is gone for several days, and after an entire day of watching the Rugby World Cup Sevens and eating as much as I could, I decided it was time to clean out my closet, and allow it to live up to its name, “walk in” closet.
Day 1: This is really going to surprise The Man. He’ll probably ask me again if we’re moving. I am not a clean freak. There are better things to do than clean. But every few years I’ll get the energy to clean something. This year will be our closet. Luckily, we moved here just over three years ago, so there is just over three years of mess to work on.
When I do clean, I like to make sections to help me get organized. There is a spot for anything that can be recycled (I may be a slob at home, but I still want a clean planet), things that need to be thrown out (toiletry items that expired in 2001), things that need to be given away (the bright yellow banana clip for hair that I purchased at the Goodwill last year, hoping to relive my glory days) and for things that should be in another room (why is there a drawer from the spare fridge in here).