Sunday, 1 May 2016

Closeted spaces

Closets are this places that you keep you clothes and so that you don't have to see them.  Sometimes closets come as wardrobes, most closets were wardrobes and closets were where you put your out of season clothing.  For some people reverse that entire statement.  For me this has always been difficult.  If I can't see my clothes, I won't wear them.  

I have had friends try to tell me that the reason why I can't find someone is because of the way that I have my clothes collected together.  I think that statement my friend made was funny because I knew how his wife grouped her clothes.  My friend was telling me that if I was going to live in his house I was going to have to buy a wardrobe to put my clothes in.  Every time I put my clothes away in some sort of wood paneled monstrosity, I know that I will wear a few of those clothes to death and when I move out I will find that favourite that I thought I had lost, properly put away.  I will think that I don't have that many socks or underwear and I will buy more.  But later open a drawer and find a stash of ten or more properly put away a year ago.  

The word is put away.  Out of sight.  About five years ago I found a different way, I moved into a spot with a tiny closet and I put my big heavy winter coat there.  Then I bought myself a bookshelf to put in the room and it was a big room, so I bought three bookshelves.  I put my book on the shelves and I put my clothes on the shelves too for the next sixteen months I had no trouble finding clothes and putting them away.  I wore clothes that I wanted to wear, not just the ones I could find, because I could see all my clothes, they were all accessible.  Nothing was hidden anywhere so everything was accessible at a glance I could know what I would wear.  I even added a pole between two shelves and could hang up more dress shirts.

My friend who said that 'I' had to hid my clothes away had a walk in closet.  She could open her door and walk in and look at what she wanted to wear, essentially the same as me, just mine where I have my bed as well.  

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