I'll get to the guilty part in a minute... First off, we are putting our house on the real estate market here soon....yes again. Some of you are cheering (ohio) and some of you are jeering (virginia). We're gonna give it one last shot, so we'll see what happens.
So what does that have to do with this blog post, well I'm glad you asked. We're getting the house in order and that means that we've got a short list of things to accomplish around the house to get it ready for showings. One of the items on our list is to clean out closets and dormer spaces throughout the house. Everyone worth their weight in HGTV/TLC salt knows that clean/empty closets are always a positive when showing a house and being that this is the third time now that we've put the house on the market, we've done this a few times now. We always joke that our house kind of takes a breath of fresh air in relief when we put the house on the market because we purge pounds and pounds of weight from it's structure each time.
The first closet we tackled this morning was a shared closet in the office/sewing room. Both Melissa and I work out of this space so the closet is shared space as well, so we both had items to de-clutter and dispose of. We took care of that task in about 30 minutes and I decided to move to my closet next. I sorted and sifted and ended up with two piles. Pile one, a bunch of shirts that now fit after losing some weight since Christmas...woohoo, and pile two, stuff that is going to Goodwill. After finishing my closet I told Melissa that I kind of felt guilty about how many articles of clothing I had. It is an area of weakness for me, so while it felt good to give a lot away, I also felt guilty for just having way to much in this area.
Then Melissa decides we should do her closet next, but the difference is that Melissa keeps a lot of her clothes in boxes upstairs in closets and dormers, so we made our way upstairs and this is what we came downstairs with to sort through...
I count about 11 boxes/bins total. I never knew she had this cache of fashion tucked away. I was proud of her though. Just like me, she was able to reclaim some clothes that now fit due to slimming down and made a great pile to donate...
All together we filled up 3 contractor sized plastic bags and will take them to our local Goodwill. There's some good stuff in there too! Here is what Melissa widdled the 11 bins down to...
So after all of this I feel blessed that we have extra clothes and extra food in the pantry and extra money and extra I could go on and on forever. But I don't feel guilty anymore because Melissa had way more clothes than me just laying around :)
-jay