I have so many projects I want to tackle around here. One of them is Pablo’s closet. It’s ridiculous. I hang onto every stitch of clothing my kids outgrow, intending to sell it all to the other twin mamas at our semi-annual Kids’ Stuff Sale, but it takes up SO MUCH ROOM. He has a good sized walk-in closet, and it is full, floor to ceiling, with boxes of clothes. I just don’t want it around here anymore. I never find the time to tag it all, and it just piles up. I’m ready to repurpose that closet and use it for something really novel and unique, like – storing the clothes he currently wears!! And maybe some of his toys and shoes!
Something else that’s bugging me is my OWN closet. It is gigantic, people – I could probably fit a twin bed in there and call it another bedroom – and it is FULL of clothes I don’t wear. A lot of it is old work clothes, and I may hang onto a few items, but much of it is stuff I haven’t worn in years. Have you noticed that since Mom Jeans went out of style (and, thank God for that) manufacturers make shirts longer than they used to? It’s definitely something I’ve noticed, every time I grab an old shirt out of my closet and try to put it on with a pair of normal jeans, and the shirt hem barely reaches the top of my jeans. I don’t have the kind of body that works with that style, thankyouverymuch, so I have about thirty shirts that just need to go. I also have shoes I’ll never wear again, stuff like…platform sneakers. Remember those? I don’t think I Love the 90s is going to be calling me up anytime soon, wanting to raid my closet, so I can probably get rid of those as well. Besides all of MY stuff that I need to get rid of, I have boxes of other people’s crap piled up in there, just because it was a convenient spot to stick stuff. No more!
Yesterday, I tackled an area that was a huge thorn in my side: the linen closet! This was the first time I’ve ever cleaned it out. Ever. Yes, as in, EVER. We moved into our house four years ago, when I was just days away from delivering Pablo and Mallory, and my mother-in-law and Paul’s aunt unpacked my linen closet, among other stuff. It was a huge help at that time, but I’ve spent years now trying to find the time to go through it all. Now that P and M are at preschool a few hours every day, I have that time! And let me tell ya a little something about my linen closet – half the stuff in there isn’t even ours!! You may remember that I bought a townhome from my parents a few years ago – which they had lived in previously. When my mom moved out, she just left a bunch of crap in the linen closet that she didn’t want anymore, mostly ugly sheets and towels, and they just got packed up with our own stuff when we moved here. So, I went through every bit of it yesterday and packed up two trash bags of stuff to go to Goodwill, and a whole bag full of fugly towels that can live on as shop rags in Paul’s garage. I never realized I owned TEN sets of queen sized sheets. Kayley’s bed is queen sized, but ours is a king. And we have, uh, THREE sets of sheets. Where’s the logic there? The person who only lives here half the time has enough bed linens to last from now until the end of time, and we barely have any! We also have three or four sets of sheets for a double bed, which we have up in the attic for guests. Yay! Plenty of sheets for people who don’t live here! I also discovered that we don’t have a whole lot of towels. Beach towels up the ass, but no bath towels. How do we get into these weird situations where we have an abundance of stuff we have little use for, and NONE of the stuff we truly need?? Anyway. My linen closet is looking mighty fine now, and I’m pretty happy about that!
And the biggest, scariest, and most daunting project of all is probably going to be the most noticeable when it’s complete. A massive toy purge. I can’t BELIEVE how many toys my kids have. It’s insane. My intention is to get every single toy they own and get it in one place – probably the basement – and then do a huge sort, and get all the baby dolls, Little People, plastic food, cars, blocks, puzzles, etc. separated so we can see what we’ve got. Then I’m going to pick out the stuff they truly love and get rid of everything else. It’s so overwhelming for the kids, Pablo in particular, to be surrounded by all this toy debris. They can’t even see what they have and they can’t figure out what to play with. I’m going to go through this house Clean Sweep style, and get a nice, fresh start!
Hear me roar!
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Laura, also known as LaLaGirl, is the mother of a teenager and two young sets of twins. She's happily married, loves living in Colorado, and writes almost daily about married life, raising multiples, and parenting a child with autism.
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