Sort Of Spring Cleaning

I know it's not quite Spring, but I have a bug up my butt to get to the cleaning part. I am also planning on having a garage sale for all the things I have accumulated in like the last seven years??? Something like that. I just know my closet's are overflowing, my shoe and purse bins wont close and many of it I haven't used in years. I have more coats than I can count on my fingers AND toes. I love clothes and I love fashion but the truth of the matter is I really don't have very many places to wear all these things anymore. I mean I suppose I COULD get all dressed up to go grocery shopping, no one would have to know I came from home and that I am going right back, but that just seems a little silly and more than a little crazy. Beautiful suits and dresses and heels, fill half my daughter's closet, I used to fill up all of it until she came along, thank goodness for nesting! Actually her whole room was my closet, and that is a little sad because we live in a 2 bedroom house. (In my defense, the basement is not finished.)

It's not that I am a pack rat, it's just that I love clothes and have many different aspects to my personality and used clothes to showcase it. Now as I am getting older I am finding that not only am I gravitating towards one main style I also don't want to look like I am trying to stay 21. All those things are in bags to be sold or donated. It really gives me a good sense of calm when I get a bunch of things cleaned out. Like I said I am not a pack rat and I hate things to be out of place. I hate a lot of clutter. I also know someday my daughter will need her entire closet when her clothes are more young adult size. All that being said, I just don't want to throw out everything now that I am not going to an office everyday. Plus I will have situations that will come along where I will need these clothes, so it would be silly to get rid of it all, just to buy new stuff later.

As it gets closer to the garage sale date, I am sure I will go through everything again and bag up some more things. I still need to go through Ella's clothes and toys. I have at least four garbage bags of clothes she has grown out of, that I need to find the few things I want to keep of hers and bag up the rest for my Spring garage sale. Maybe I'm just itching for Spring in general.