{"id":3073,"date":"2014-03-09T10:01:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T14:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2014-07-17T15:53:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T19:53:59","slug":"36569b-lent-week-1-bedroom-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/36569b-lent-week-1-bedroom-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A Drawer A Day: Wk 1-Bedroom #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3079\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Days-365+69b-ADAD-my-dresser-contents.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3079\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3079\" alt=\"Click to enlarge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Days-365+69b-ADAD-my-dresser-contents-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I started my Drawer-A-Day pruning in the logical place \u2013 my dresser drawers and night stand.<br \/>\n<strong>Here are the stats:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 days<\/li>\n<li>8 drawers (2 of which I skipped \u2013 after \u00a0emptying these drawers I chose to remove nothing.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I used the process described on Ash Wednesday &#8211; Empty the drawer and divide the contents into 4 piles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep<\/li>\n<li>Give Away<\/li>\n<li>Throw Away<\/li>\n<li>Wait<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>RESULTS\/LEARNINGS:<\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n<li><strong>Easiest things to give away:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Stockings in good condition. (Thanks to the enlightened female fashion trend that favors bare legs in the summer I seldom wear stockings anymore. I saved a few for when I\u2019m invited to a wedding or the White House.)<\/li>\n<li>Fingernail and toenail clippers, tweezers. Yes these are helpful gadgets to have but do I really need 6 toenail clippers? I saved two \u2013 one for me and one for potential visitors.<\/li>\n<li>A battery powered tweezer that never worked that efficiently. After all, I did keep two human powered tweezers.<\/li>\n<li>Mini travel alarm. I love miniaturized things for travel but when I tried to replace the battery to see if it worked, I found that it didn\u2019t run on a battery. Where it got its power is a mystery. It certainly couldn\u2019t run on solar power while stashed in my drawer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hardest to give away:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>T-shirts with political or spiritual sayings. These are more like wearable bumper stickers, but is it really worth saving a campaign shirt from a 2012 or 2008 election \u2013 even for a novelty party?<\/li>\n<li>I did save one T-shirt showing the Last Supper with all women apostles. The best day to wear this is Holy Thursday and it was hard to justify a once a year wearing, but maybe I\u2019ll just have to wear it more often.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Throwaways<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Stockings that had seen better days and peds that I would never wear even though they\u2019re in good condition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Things I kept:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The two skipped drawers contained 16 winter tops and sweaters that I wear regularly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Distinguishing Give-Aways from Throw-Aways<\/span><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Jim said that probably some of my give-aways should really be throw-aways. This applied to my \u201cgood condition\u201d stockings and several slightly used lipsticks. As usual, he\u2019s probably right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_3080\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Days-365+69b-ADAD-my-dresser.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3080\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3080\" alt=\"Click to show whole dresser\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Days-365+69b-ADAD-my-dresser-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to show whole dresser<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">No Outward Difference.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My dresser and night stand don\u2019t look any different from the outside but I have a pleasant feeling when I look inside and see space that is no longer crammed.<\/li>\n<li>Even though I cleared out a fair amount of stuff, I was surprised that I couldn\u2019t actually consolidate items enough to gain an empty drawer. There are still too many items in the \u201cI don\u2019t use or wear this much, but I might want it someday\u201d category. I still have room to grow \u2013 or maybe I mean diminish.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Since we\u2019re talking about clothes, perhaps this would be a good time to acquaint you with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theproject333.com\/getting-started\">Project 333<\/a><\/strong>. This is the invention of Courtney Carver who challenges us to wear only 33 items of clothing for 3 months (one season). You don\u2019t have to count your wedding ring, underwear, sleep wear, in-home lounge wear, and workout clothing. I haven\u2019t officially tried it yet but am intrigued to see what I\u2019d be left with after my 16 winter tops.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A question to ponder:<\/strong> What would be your hardest or easiest dresser items to part with?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started my Drawer-A-Day pruning in the logical place \u2013 my dresser drawers and night stand. Here are the stats: 5 days 8 drawers (2 of which I skipped \u2013 after \u00a0emptying these drawers I chose to remove nothing.) 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