The Closet

I saved the worst till last and finally tackled the one thing standing in the way of a successful move to a smaller home.  My closet.  As a former News Anchor,  part of my job was to be a clothes horse, and I must have been pretty good at it, because I have a closet full of suits that I don’t plan on ever wearing again.  Ok, that’s a lie.  I’m keeping every one of my St. John suits because they always look good at a wedding or funeral, but the rest, I’m storing in case bad luck befalls me and I have to get a full-time job again.

That’s the good news, because that cut my need for hanging space in half.  Yep, I have that many clothes.  The rest of the clothes, which means all the clothes I wear now that I don’t have to look like a professional news reader, I also cut that pile in oh…..half.  I may have had 50 tank tops hanging in the closet but honestly I wear five of them.  I decided there is no reason to let clothes I hate take up closet space, so they’re off to goodwill.  Wear them in peace dear friends.

Then there are the shoes.  Same thing, I was so proud to have a closet full of shoes, even if I would rather be seen barefoot than wear some of those toebusters.  I finally decided even if that one pair of shoes looks good with that ONE outfit I have, and only wear once every three years…..it doesn’t deserve a 365 day parking space in my soon to be much smaller closet.  Bye Bye ugly, uncomfortable, worn out, or just plain hated SHOES.  They’re vacationing at Goodwill too.

I was almost done, when the last little dittie standing in the way of a clean closet was my jewelry drawer.  Yeah, I think the only thing news anchors buy more than blazers are necklaces.  I split them into two piles, one that I will bury in a storage room for when I need a necklace the size of Texas, the other the smaller pile, the ones that are actually made of real gold, have some dollar value or may actually be worn, those will be tucked into a box and be transferred to the soon to be completely edited Anita Cochran closest.  I can hardly wait to see how it looks, and better yet, how long it will take me to honestly believe, I have NOTHING to wear, even though the closet at the new house will be jammed pack. I give it two maybe three days, MAX.  I’m Anita Cochran, and that’s what I really wanted to say.

 

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