I mentioned this on my Monday post but for those of you who haven’t read it, recently I have been on a mission to clean out my closet. This may not sound like a huge deal to many but it is to me. I’m a bit of a hoarder and I’ve had stuff in my closet for years. I’m talking from when I first moved in. So cleaning all that out in a huge deal and so much work. So far, I have sprained my toe and wrist in the process but I’m ignoring the pain and trying to keep going.
Now that I have all the stuff laid out in my room I can see just how much I’ve hoarded. And I get why. A lot of those old clothes are just clothes. They’re memories. And that’s why we hold on to old things. It’s not about the stuff it’s about what the stuff reminds us of. It’s not even that much stuff to be honest, it’s just that my closet is quite small. And I don’t have space to hold on to these things. It’s time to move on from them and let go of the stuff but keep the memories. In a way, I feel so free. Cleaning is definitely therapeutic.
Why am I telling you all this? You don’t care about my closet. Well, obviously, I didn’t have time to write much with all the cleaning and sprained wrist. So here I am writing about something and nothing like I always do. I actually did do some writing but saving that for later on in the week, lol.
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I hope your tootsie and wrist get better fast, Pooja! Is that your closet? 😳
Thanks, I’m much better today! Haha no, just a random image, if my closet looked like this I wouldn’t complain ever again 😅
Cleaning has lots of benefits for our mental health, it may be as good as mindful meditation. Spring cleaning is especially good marking a new page in life, making space for something new, positive and promising… It always makes my day when I can finally let go leaving my fears behind…
A good clean out is very therapeutic! Hope you heal soon from the sprains!
Thanks so much and yes it’s so therapeutic!
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I agree, it’s a lot like mindful meditation in some ways. And it’s so stress relieving. It’s always nice to leave the negative feelings behind.
Absolutely, I need to do the cleaning too
Get well soon Pooja. I can attest to being a bit of a hoarder myself lol perhaps its time to clean on my end as well.
Thanks so much, lol it’s hard not to be a hoarder.
Get well super soon, Pooja
Thanks so much.
Well yes you have shared that you are cleaning your closest/almirah.
Good thing that it’s completed.
Kindly take care of yourself.
Yes cleaning and rearranging is definitely healing, very good for mental health. Also a great exercise.
So yeah good job ☺️👏🏻
You can whine about sprained wrist in a seperate post 😝
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It’s not complete yet, I still have about 1/4th of it to go. But almost done!
And then you’ll have another post about it? 🤭
You please take care, can’t you be more cautious?
What were you hiding there? Stones ? 😱
I don’t know about stones but I found half a cookie among clothes from like a decade ago today lol 😅
That’s an ancient relics……
Preserve it, don’t eat 🍪
I threw it away 😆
It was a part of history and interestingly, you have history, so you should understand that this is important.
Past PG was trying to give you some message.
You should have eaten it and thanked her for kindness….
Past PG was just a mess and left cookies everywhere 😅
Yeah I’ve heard stories 😂
Cleaning can be very dangerous. I regret throwing out some books. Sometimes I can research more quickly and cogently by flipping through pages in different books piled together. Searching through google is not always better especially if I remember something that can pop into mind from a book that I remember and I can flip to it. There was a psychology book that I bought on a whim in a college bookstore that was a required book in a course that I was not taking because I didn’t have room for it in my schedule. It cost $7.25 USD. It now sells on Amazon for about $200. Some books are just gone forever. I threw out a lot just because of some fanatical moral imperatives that a lot of people were propagandizing about including un-named relatives and authority figures. A few objects that are memory triggers or talismans are worth keeping too. If you want to be officially cleaning for prestige you can do what museums do and catalog everything so you can get to it without disrupting everything. More organization means not throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Good job in cleaning! I think you are not unlike many of us who keep things for the memories attached. I still have my “drooper dog” stuffed grey and black puppy toy that my dad brought me after he was in the hospital with his first heart attack. He bought my sister and me one in the hospital gift shop. I was four and it was a scary time for a little girl. We were not well-off, so this was an unexpected treat!
Thanks! Yeah, some of these things have so much sentimental value to us.
I never throw out books no matter what. I’m okay with hoarding books. It’s just clothes I’m getting rid of because I just know I’ll never wear them. Everything is now colour coded to help find them more easily.
there’s a hoarder in all of us, I suspect 🥴
Happy cleaning and healing, Pooja🤍
Haha true, it’s juts so hard to get rid of certain 😅
I had a difficult time organising my closet because I didn’t wanted to throw away clothes that I used to wear in my first dance class. So many memories, so much attachment to things. But once I decided to finally move on from the past to create many more happy memories for the future, cleaning my closet became easier.
I totally understand, it’s hard to get rid of these things when we have so many memories attached to them.
We are looking to move house at the end of the year; to downsize to something half the size. That means going through, sorting and dumping a lifetime of memories. Every item imbued with a scent of times gone by.
Wow, that’s going to be a lot but I feel like it’s actually therapeutic in the end getting rid of some of that stuff.
Is that your closet Pooja? It looks perfect. Omg nooooo, sorry about your wrist?💞
Lol, I wish! That’s just a random image I found 😅 Wrist is okay now but toe is still hurting a little 😫
No one needs to know.. It’s the perfect closet. Mine is new but a disaster at the moment. Yikes.. glad you’re on the mend! 💞
Haha in that case it’s totally mine 😜 DW yours will be fabulous once you get it all set up and organised!
hahahahaha 😂 Now we’re talking. I’d pay you to organize.. there must be a virtual job for that.. lol ❣️
Lol, my sister just told me to organise her closet for her too 😅
I feel the same way when I clean my storage space.
It’s definitely nice to get rid of the unnecessary stuff we have.
One feels so much lighter.
Exactly 😊
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I’m a hoarder …. er, COLLECTOR too!
Just yesterday I came across an old newspaper that had nothing relevant to me in it and I’m like, “Why the hell did I save this?!” Then I found an old magazine and got lost in reading almost the whole thing!!
So, I can relate!
And very cool you’re listening to David Bowie. I love that young people enjoy the music of my generation. I saw him perform twice, and once walked right past him in a nightclub. He was a legend.
It’s hard to get rid of stuff! I still have some of my school books from when I was a kid and random stuff that I don’t really remember much about 😅
Omg so cool, David Bowie is such an icon. I absolutely love his music.
I can definitely relate to this. Letting stuff go can be tricky at first, yet once you do it makes everything better. plus gives you room for more new and exciting stuff. No pain no gain 🙂
Absolutely, it’s hard at first but you come out feeling so much better.
letting go is helpful! in clearing the stuff you never will use if you haven’t used for months now,
Absolutely, I know I’ll never wear these again so it’s time to let them go.
Will you donate the clothes? Sometimes we need a good purge.
Many will be donated while some are being repurposed by my mum.
True, this felt really good.
I think that despite what you think, you have a perfect jumping point about memories. This has the potential to be a 1st class story related to some of those memories. 🙂
You have stories beyond a sprained wrist. Keep writing!
Thanks so much, really appreciate that!
Totally relatable post
Thanks, glad it was relatable.
I’m slowly working my way through cleaning out my place of all the extra stuff. Memories are the strongest reason to keep useless stuff around so now my rule is if I haven’t used it in years then I take a picture of it and then away it goes.
It’s the same for me now, I’ve removed everything I know I will no longer use and the stuff that I have memories with I’ll take a picture of it.
I feel sad when I decide to get rid of something with memories but after it’s gone I feel better about having more free space.
I have a rule that if I don’t wear something for a year, out it goes. However, I have a few favorites that I can’t part with. I always feel a lot better when I declutter.
That makes sense, I feel like I need to adapt a similar rule from now on.
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Amazing…I hope you are okay now. I am cleanliness freak like Monica from Friends hahaha…. so I always enjoy cleaning and arranging stuff in the house.
Haha I’m more messy but I do enjoy cleaning once in a while 😅
“Cleaning out my closet” by the white boy rapper. Alright. … Every time we move we discard a quarter of our stuff. So it’s said. Move more?
There was a time when I moved 11 times in 7 years.
Yeah, cleaning/grooming is good for the soul. 😉
Wow, that’s a lot of moving but it’s also fun to move around. Hopefully you got rid of all the unnecessary stuff. It really is good for the soul, I feel a million times lighter 😅
Yay for being productive! I have halfway cleaned out a closet which, of course, means I have made a bigger mess. Ha.
Lol, it gets worse before it gets better when it comes to cleaning!
You should take a rest,Pooja!! Don’t be so hard on yourself.
I hope that sprain isn’t that serious and get well soon!
Yeah, no cleaning for today but will probably start back up tomorrow!
That’s great!!
I’m so glad you decided to clean your closet. I absolutely know the feeling of keeping things in the closet, but also the other one, the relief when I empty it and keep only what I really need.
It’s a good step to take.
Thanks and yeah it’s really a relief to let it go after so long.
It always feels good to organize, but it takes a while to get into the mindset. 🙂 Glad you did it, Pooja, and I hope you heal soon. ❤️
Thanks so much 😊 Yes, I don’t organise often because of that but when I do I really enjoy it.
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Happy cleaning Pooja! Just donated about 3 bags of clothes from everyone’s closet
Thanks and that’s awesome! I have about 2 bags ready to donate too!
That’s awesomoe, Good work.
Clothes, like other material possessions, remind us of who we were, what we were doing, and with whom, at particular times in our lives. It can be hard sometimes to acknowledge that those times are over. It is so much more than clearing out a wardrobe. If we can acknowledge that emotional dimension, we should not be so hard on ourselves about what some describe as ‘hoarding’.
True, a lot of our material items are kept due to the memories they hold for us.
I’m too like this. It’s feel so bad to change things, but changes are like this.
Yeah, change is not always easy but sometimes very necessary.
True that.
I usually try to clean out my closet once or twice a year. I usually find articles of clothing that I have not seen in months and then decide to donate to the Salvation Army.
That’s a great way to keep things in order. I may have to start doing it more often too. Maybe once every three months.
A clean closet is next a god closet.
Although I don’t think that’s how the saying goes.
Lol, close enough.
Interesting post and so true a clear out can remind us of all those happy times we have had over the years 🙂
Thank you and yeah this really brought back many memories.
Very welcome and am sure 🙂
Oh, I have been doing closet tidying up for a month–just a little bit by a little bit. Right now it is so much better than before, although I don’t dare to share a picture of it. LOL. I am not a hoarder, but I do have an unwillingness to throw stuff away. I made a rule that whenever I buy a piece of item or a piece of clothe, I will need to throw away one or two items. This actually slows down the pace of adding new stuff to my pile.
That’s a good idea, that way you never end up with too much stuff. I dislike throwing stuff away too because I always feel like what if I need it someday and don’t have it.
Me too. I feel the same way about all kinds of stuff. We have this “rainy day” mentality. LOL.
Lol, will we ever learn. Although to be fair some stuff does come in handy during rainy days.
I agree with you Pooja that cleaning can be therapeutic. Putting the minds fous on something different is helpful. I think that also getting the body moving some can also get the endorphins sparking which is beneficial too.
Absolutely, it really feels nice to get your body moving and get some work done with you’re at it.
Closets can be dangerous places, it seems! 😱
Mine almost killed me 😅
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I hope your wrist and toe get better soon. I actually don’t recommend trying to push through it. Having cracked a rib, I know it’s best not to do heavy lifting if you’re injured. When the dr told me not to lift anything more than 10 lbs I thought, “No problem!” I couldn’t even manage 1 or 5 lbs, and the worse the injury, the longer it takes to get back to heavy lifting. I’m still not there yet. Just fyi
Thanks and I’m okay now. I ended up waiting a day till I was okay and finished the cleaning then. I just did some small stuff so as not to hurt my hand any further. I still have some left but will do that later since the big stuff is mostly done.
I totally get that, I think resting while recovering is best.
That’s good you’re pacing yourself at least