After months (maybe even years...) of staring at the messy
closet I share with my sister, I thought that this was the perfect opportunity
to get organized. Our closet is relatively small for two teenage girls to
share, but somehow we manage to fit a lot of clothing and other miscellaneous
objects in it. The top rack is mine and the bottom rack is my sister’s. I
started by taking everything out—so the closet was completely empty. I sorted
through the clothing and made a pile of clothes that we could donate (with my
sister’s approval of course) and clothes that we wanted to keep. After hanging
the “keep” pile back up, I refolded all of the clothing that sits in the mini
dresser that also somehow fits in the closet. I vacuumed the floor of the
closet and was surprised to find that it looked a LOT better—completely worth
the 50 minutes that it took!
Before I started the daunting task of organizing our closet,
I was pretty unmotivated. I expected it to take a long time and I also expected
to give up after approximately half an hour. I usually only clean when I’m
stressed out or frustrated (I still haven’t decided if this is a good habit or
a bad one...) but this time I was cleaning without the stress. I got pretty
caught up in it and time passed much faster than I thought it did. I didn’t
even look at the clock once, surprisingly. This project makes me wonder how
organized I could potentially be if I just forced myself to start. If my whole
life could be as organized as my closet now is...that would be pretty great.
And also hard to maintain. In hindsight, this project could have been done much
earlier, instead of ignoring it for all this time. It reminded me of how
important it is and how good it feels to be organized, whether it is my room or
all of the papers we get in school.
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