so my parents are moving... no definite date, but it WILL happen, likely sooner than I'd like... I imagine sometime this coming summer.So I'm cleaning my junk out of their house. Now that I have a car again, it's way easier (public transit does NOT go to their house). I have liberated about 3 garbage bags of clothing from their house, I've done a few loads of laundry, and picked out which items are going to Goodwill. I've had to wash anything that was not packed in Rubbermaid tubs... basements = EVIL! They WILL grow mould at some point, it's only a matter of time. If I ever have a house with a basement, nothing valuable is going into it. What is truly shocking is the size of the shirts I wore back in 1989. They look huge now, to my eyes. There were certainly no American Apparel girly Ts back then - I wore a men's medium, square garments with no concession to the female form. I had blouses like that too - big and square. I guess it was related to that whole Boy George androgyny thing in the 80s. Some stuff I'm keeping... printed Ts from jobs and from university, and a few staple items, such as Levis 531s and a Daniel Hechter sweatshirt, to maybe show my little cousin what on earth I wore back then, but it's a good feeling to get rid of the other items. When you have a house that you can leave junk in, it's astounding what gets left behind. I'm just glad it's been awhile since I've seen these items (8-9 years) so I can be fairly objective - ie giving away all those huge white T-shirts instead of keeping them to use as pyjamas, etc. Next on my list for cleaning out when I go back: a closet filled with ancient Macintosh peripherals.
Post je objavljen 24.11.2009. u 11:38 sati.