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May. 16th, 2018 08:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI got a lot of stuff out of my closet yesterday. We had just enough bins in the basement for me to sort the stuff that had been hanging there into four categories. Well, the stuff I want/need to keep anyway. I have two trash bags of stuff to donate, one of things I think other people can wear and one of things that have large pieces of good cloth but are too worn at the hems, cuffs, collar, etc. to look nice. I have a small bin of my t-shirts and a small bin of the dress clothes that still fit. Then there are two bins for storing. The smaller has short sleeved dresses, things with sentimental value, and all of the shirts I'm not likely to wear again soon. The larger is entirely long sleeved dresses.
I'm not currently comfortable wearing long sleeved shirts or dresses because of my body temperature weirdness. I stopped wearing them when I had to have the lumpectomy and radiation. Getting the dresses on and off would have been too potentially damaging. I expect I'll go back to them eventually, and 90% of these are bespoke. I can't possibly afford to replace them.
I've also got a rather large number of wire hangers. I put those in one of our laundry baskets. I'll want them when I have a rod in my closet again. The old wooden one actually had snapped rather than coming loose. I think I'll leave the dresses in the bins at that point, though, because the closet is pretty small. I just had it packed both horizontally and vertically.
I found some dresses that no longer fit me but that do fit Cordelia. All three are fancy things that she considers pretty. I told her to hang them in her closet, but they're in a pile on the floor of her room. One of them is a bridesmaid's dress that I wore about 26 years ago. I hadn't even realized that I still had it.
Scott is considering a home equity line of credit to pay off our car loan. He says that we can get something with a much lower monthly payment if we go through the UM Credit Union. Paying $100 a month on the loan instead of $500 a month would cover 2/3 of Cordelia's monthly medical expenses.
I'm not currently comfortable wearing long sleeved shirts or dresses because of my body temperature weirdness. I stopped wearing them when I had to have the lumpectomy and radiation. Getting the dresses on and off would have been too potentially damaging. I expect I'll go back to them eventually, and 90% of these are bespoke. I can't possibly afford to replace them.
I've also got a rather large number of wire hangers. I put those in one of our laundry baskets. I'll want them when I have a rod in my closet again. The old wooden one actually had snapped rather than coming loose. I think I'll leave the dresses in the bins at that point, though, because the closet is pretty small. I just had it packed both horizontally and vertically.
I found some dresses that no longer fit me but that do fit Cordelia. All three are fancy things that she considers pretty. I told her to hang them in her closet, but they're in a pile on the floor of her room. One of them is a bridesmaid's dress that I wore about 26 years ago. I hadn't even realized that I still had it.
Scott is considering a home equity line of credit to pay off our car loan. He says that we can get something with a much lower monthly payment if we go through the UM Credit Union. Paying $100 a month on the loan instead of $500 a month would cover 2/3 of Cordelia's monthly medical expenses.
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Date: 2018-05-18 02:11 am (UTC)You've reminded me that I should probably weed my own closets again. I pulled and donated a bunch of clothes last year, but I still have several shirts I almost never wear, and some pants I should probably admit that I am not going to fit back into any time in the near future. *wry*