I have multiple running TODO lists. Some long-term items appear in digital form in a google doc. Some small things appear in a TODO reminder on my google calendar. Other quick items are written on a piece of paper on my desk. There's one TODO that has appeared on all of these lists, always with the intention of marking it off. It's the one thing that has evaded me for years. After saying it out loud to various people and thus putting it out in the universe...I finally cleaned out my closet!
After recent purges in other areas around the house and garage, my closet was the last big area to tackle. It was daunting, because any time I cleaned up another area, things from those clean-out sessions would end up in my closet! I would remove stuff from other drawers/closets but then panic and decide to hang on to it, tucked away in my closet.
Getting started was the hardest part. But once I overcame inertia (objects at rest stay at rest unless acted on by an outside force), it was not nearly as bad as I had dreaded! I do wish I had taken a few pictures along the way, but I was so focused on making it happen, I didn't even think about it, until it was over!
One thing I found: a piece of paper dated 2020 with a list of TODOs, and one was: clean out my closet! It must have been the paper version related to this purge.
In the end: out went 2 bags of trash and 5 bags of donations!
And now I'm left with a chaos-free, plenty of space, easy-to-find-the-things-I-use-most closet. Not quite an example of hyyge (hoo-gah), but sure feels pretty close!
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