For the last few years I've gone to tremendous effort to get healthy and lose weight. Well, it turns out, according to my doctor - and the other doctor, and the other one, too, you can be healthy and heavy. I am both. I am thankful for the healthy and ever so tired of the heavy. BUT I am no longer going to defeat myself with my closet filled half with clothes that fit and the other half with clothes that make me sad.
I've been holding onto clothes I love because I will fit in them again. I've been holding onto that idea for years. I purchase pretty simple, classic and timeless cuts, so style is not an issue. The issue is how defeated I feel every time I go in my closet or open a drawer. So one day last week I decided to go from this:
(Not a true representation as there were so many clothes on the bench on the end of my bed - so imagine this stuffed even more.) See those tags? Brand NEW clothes I've never worn. Clothes I won't ever wear.
Along with most of the clothes in my dresser, they ended up:
in these three super sized garbage bags which were promptly delivered to the clothing bin behind the local grocery store.
Now, I have this:
My plan? Because I always have to have a plan, is to not purchase anything - unless it is a direct replacement - for the next year. I'm done with purchasing things "in case" or "for the day when". I have everything I am possibly going to need to get me through. I am never throwing out items with a tag on them EVER again. The disappointment I felt in myself was crushing while going through the process, but results were completely liberating.
This was a wonderful project.
Now to organize the linen closet!
