Those who know me will read this post's title and probably laugh out loud. Cleaning is not a thing I do regularly or willingly. However, with the rollercoaster of year I've had, the idea of cleaning out my closet and getting rid of some old things to make way for the new and fresh was a bit more appealing.
I know they say you're supposed to sort through your closet and evaluate based on if you've worn the item in the last year whether or not to keep it. Who are they kidding?? I have some staples that haven't steered me wrong and have been in my closet for years but come up to bat when they're needed. I'm also the person who has a shirt (or something) in the bottom of the drawer with sentimental value that may never go in the donate pile. Don't worry I don't let this get to a hoarding place but some "things" have more sentimental worth than I'm willing to part with and I'm okay with that.
Sidenote: I feel the need to apologize to my sister for this statement as she is striving at all times to be a true minimalist and probably just cringed involuntarily at the sentiment that I will keep a thing that serves no immediate function and be happy about it. Hope you love me anyway!
Back to the purge. This was a good one. I got through things that definitely made it through the last two times I went through - even a couple of the sentimental ones. At 31, nearly 32, and after the year of changes and trauma I am truly grateful to be in a place of ready for change rather than a place where I want to just hold on to anything familiar and comfortable - a place I was not too long ago.
Looking forward and planning a trip to donate this piles!
I know they say you're supposed to sort through your closet and evaluate based on if you've worn the item in the last year whether or not to keep it. Who are they kidding?? I have some staples that haven't steered me wrong and have been in my closet for years but come up to bat when they're needed. I'm also the person who has a shirt (or something) in the bottom of the drawer with sentimental value that may never go in the donate pile. Don't worry I don't let this get to a hoarding place but some "things" have more sentimental worth than I'm willing to part with and I'm okay with that. Sidenote: I feel the need to apologize to my sister for this statement as she is striving at all times to be a true minimalist and probably just cringed involuntarily at the sentiment that I will keep a thing that serves no immediate function and be happy about it. Hope you love me anyway!
Back to the purge. This was a good one. I got through things that definitely made it through the last two times I went through - even a couple of the sentimental ones. At 31, nearly 32, and after the year of changes and trauma I am truly grateful to be in a place of ready for change rather than a place where I want to just hold on to anything familiar and comfortable - a place I was not too long ago.
Looking forward and planning a trip to donate this piles!
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