Goals 2019 -- February Recap

So, this was closet clean-out month.

I made a bit of progress, but I would not qualify it as a success.  I got through about half my closet.  I have a handful of things each to give away, throw away, and repair/polish.  Not nearly as many as I had hoped, so I might need another run-through.  I guess the positive takeaway of this is that I don't have a lot of superfluous clothing.  (Although, looking at how much I have, that hardly seems possible.)

The other half of my closet, though, never got touched.  In truth, I don't think there will be much there to get rid of, because that's where my suits and work clothes live, so I have a pretty good idea of what's there.

And I haven't done anything in the direction of getting clothes in for repairs, etc.  There just wasn't enough time this month.  S and I ended up being out of town for two of the weekends in Feb, plus a handful of weekdays, and that really cut down on my at-home recreational time, not that I'm complaining!

K says:

When M proposed that we try to clean out our closets for February, I thought, “I can certainly handle that.” And, to some extent, I could. On February 1, I found myself with nothing to do and a long, empty, quiet evening ahead of me. So, I put on the Hamilton soundtrack and got to it. I finished going through my closet by the time I went to bed that night, and I fancied myself something of a superhero. Here I was, on Day 1 of the month, done.

I decided to wind down by reading the latest post on M’s blog, where I found that I was not done! Now, I had to follow through the with get rid of, send for tailoring, send for damage repair part of this agreement. How hard could that be? I wouldn’t be a superhero, but I’d be something of a star.

And, here I am, 27 days later surrounded by a bag for donation that I’m hoping my mom will drop off before Thursday comes and another bag that it’s possible I mightcould get rid of by then and another stack that has to make it to the “big city” of West Palm in order to find the way into a good luggage repair shop and a quality dry cleaner, so that’s probably not going to happen by the end of the month, but maybe by March 2 if I’m lucky! And, to top it all off, I came home from dinner tonight to find that the heels on my sandals are peeling off, so I need to add a super gluing project to the “to do” list too. No longer am I the hero I once was. I was brought down by the vast 27 days of possibility that I left myself by finishing this project so early. And, now I remember why I don’t clean out my closet that often. It’s really just the process of moving one stack of things in one direction and then back in another until I can actually manage to get them out of the house!