Liberating!!!

What can be more liberating than the truth, or freedom, or retirement, or getting all your debts paid off? Closet cleaning. lol. I know. As ridiculous as it may sound, it was liberating for me. Perhaps not as liberating as the above, but well, liberating enough to qualify as a topic for my blog. :)

Anyways, I spent the last weekend digging deep in my closets, shelving it a bit more, tossing the junk and re-organizing. And tossing the junk we so invariably collect over the year is what I am going to talk about today. As this American economy keeps flooding us with deals and we, naive that we are, keep buying and shopping, its finally left to the closet to bear the brunt of our hasty thoughtfulness, or rather, non-thoughtfulness. Though closets have proved to be very very accommodating so far, never complaining, just plain smiling their way through, there isn't much it can really do when your clothes start to spill over. No matter how much you kick them back in, they just overflow. And thats when it strikes us. Whoops, I have to fix this mess. And off we go hunting for closet solutions. I did the same. Dumped, dumped, dumped, till it literally yelled at me. Clean me guys, c'mon, how could you be so blind? And so I rolled up my sleeves and got to work. One thing I have to say is my kids had a ball. Pucho kyu? Coz when I got every piece of cloth out and made a big humongous pile, they had such a great time just jumping and falling on it. Anyways, in the process, I made up some tossing rules which I'd like to share with ya.

Rule #1: Some of the clothes are just plain old. No matter how dear it is to you or it has been given to you by some loved one, or you just totally love it, let it go. They are old. Your friends, your family, your neighbors are just sick of seeing in you in that uniform. SO LET IT GO.

Rule #2: Some clothes you'll find you bought for reasons you forgot. They stare at you annoyingly and ask you, if you didn't ever wanted to use me, why the heck did you bother picking me off the store. And what do you do? You keep 'em for a few years. Each year, putting them either at the bottomest of your pile, or so behind that you never have to look at it and feel guilty. LET IT GO. Even if its been just a year, let it go. Its not worth it.

Rule #3: C'mmon, face it. You have grown fat for watever reason there is. Either you have been indulging yourself into sinful desserts or you now have a pouch on account of child-bearing duties :). A little, more, doesn't matter and there is no way you are ever going to fit into those zero size jeans. LET IT GO. And if at all you do go back to your size, you could just go pick up a couple of new pairs.

Rule #4: Its out of fashion girl. Grow up. You can't wear those flared-up jeans or anarkali salwar suits. THROW IT AWAY.

Well, so you see, after some serious tossing away, I now have a few piles. A throw-away pile, a donation pile, some to pass over to friends and their kids, and some for the next season. And my closets now are a sight of beauty. Anushka just opens them and loves to look at it. I hope it stays that way. Touchwood!!!

P.S. Use, re-use the kids' clothes. Get from your friends, pass them on to others. Afterall, their usage is so limited with these toddlers just aching to grow and grow.