Hello Clothes, Goodbye Clothes

Yesterday and today have mostly been spent going through my closet, and a huge storage bin of clothes. My current clothes we getting quite loose. I am still wearing quite a lot of them - the ones that I was wearing VERY tight on me before and now they fit well. But some are too big and had to go. I also had some older stuff I just didn't want anymore, even if it is still smaller. Besides all this my closet was a bit of a mess, stuff on the floor, drawers all crammed with random stuff. I needed to go through everything.

This is where I started. Looks innocent enough.

There's my laundry basket with clean stuff to put away, a pile of a few new things from Wal-Mart and Old Nacy, and a box of clothes  I purchased from ebay. This was all in our room and got me thinking, it's time to tackle this stuff.

Somehow, a little while later, I was looking at this:

I first separated out all my warm stuff since it's summer and I don't need it. I put some in the get rid of pile, and some in the keep pile. It may not fit anymore when it gets cooler but for now I'll keep it. It's Colorado so I may sometimes need these at random times or if I go up in to the mountains.

When I finished I had a whole box of stuff for Goodwill:

A good pile of still-too-small stuff to put back in my storage bins (these were new items from my mom, from an ebay purchase, etc that are still sizes 20,18,16):

And I had this ENTIRE RACK of clothing that I am getting rid of!!!!

That's a bunch of stuff going bye-bye. I was looking into this plus size consignment shop today, but they have SO MANY rules and restrictions so it may not be the best option. I might just have a little garage sale in a couple weeks. For now this is just sitting in my living room. Our cat Big Orange was enjoying this clothing rack in the oddest way...

Ok dude, whatever makes you happy I guess!

Alright so back to clothes. Once I had all this stuff done, divided, etc, my closet was looking pretty bare:

That's my whole closet, yes. By the way I would like to take this opportunity to point out that my husband has a gazillion times more closet space than I do. This is HIS side of the closet:

The little part you see to the right begins my little portion of the closet! I am pretty good about clothes. It may seem like I had a ton but a lot of it had been stored in crazy places. I typically keep ONLY what fits hanging in my closet and only things I actually wear... so it stays small. But I may end up stealing some more closet space from hubby as time goes on.

Anyway my closet was pretty bare and then I thought... if all this stuff was too big, maybe some of my smaller items might fit now. So I pulled out a big tub of clothes marked:

These were stored away when they became too small. I got rid of things I didn't want but kept things I thought I'd really want to wear again. So I pulled out this bin today and tried on everything in the box. EVERY SINGLE THING FIT except for ONE tank top that although marked an 18, fits like a 14. Also there were more sweaters and sweatshirts so I left them in the bin.
 During the trying on, it was a bit messy again:

Luckily I had Supervisor Cat to keep the project on track. (That's Phoebe.)

I was particularly excited about these sets of tops I have with a plain tank top and a striped lightweight collared shirt over it. I have it in 3 colors. I used to wear them ALL the time 3 summers ago because they are so light and comfy. They fit again!!! Just a tad snug across the back but they work and in 10 more lbs they will be perfect. Here I am all happy with one of them on:

Disclaimer: Objects in mirror may be chubbier than they appear. LOL. Part of my body is cut off in the reflection so I am not as thin as I look there lol.

Once I tried it all on and knew it fit I added it all to my closet. Now we're talkin' :

A nice full closet again, with lots ready to be worn!!

I worked HARD, and I was tired, but by the time I wanted to take a nap, it appeared all the spots were already taken:

Ain't that a kick in the head.