Been stowing winter items.

It never ceases to amaze me how strongly old "overwhelmed" feelings can slow down present-time action. Yes, my brain KNOWS I set up that great closet, but the hamper-full of winter items has been sitting for a week-- looking so big, so completely overwhelming.

Today I finally made myself stand in the closet to start stowing as much as would fit. I did NOT need to drag a tray table into the tight workspace to hold the hamper-- I'd left myself a small stepstool in that closet, DUH! Instead of a tray table, I was crowded with joyous doggies.

I had resignedly figured I'd deal with whatever didn't fit by hiking it upstairs to the other closet, where I'd spied some open shelf space before I came down this AM. To my shock, the hamper is now empty (ready to catch dirty laundry piling up), and the DOWNstairs closet is not overstuffed at all. There was room for a whole pile of wear-only-to-hockey-games stuff. I had enough hangers, I had enough hanging and shelf space, and I still have enough space in there to handle the spring/summer hanging items I know are in the newly-organized UPstairs closet of offseason stuff.

I'm so tired of the winter colors and textures-- uggghhh!! And I know there are fresh and colorful things to re-discover upstairs. I do NOT need to buy a lot of new stuff! What a relief-- the catalogs are full of crap styles and crap colors this year.

Heck, I think I can even unpack the garment bag that still has unworn contents from a month ago! :~) Good thing, too, as now I need to restock it for a weekend retreat.

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Another handy little solution-- since I keep losing my carefully-crafted grocery lists, I looked online and found one I liked. Already made and ready to print, with check-boxes for everything I might ever want. I checked off some boxes, Hardi checked off some boxes-- who knew he wanted that stuff?-- and it's too big to lose so easily before I go USE it.

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We CAN do this.

~Susan