One closet at a time.


As I write this, Erik is tackling yet another new music that is quite difficult, I wont' lie, I would just look at it and close the book...
We don't know yet, if this piece is too difficult for him at this point but he would tell us.... When a new piece is in front of him, occasionally he is overwhelmed and it becomes a teary session. I think he is tired at the end of the day, too. But he had so much fun putting a lamp we purchased today and also a shelf to use in one of our closets. Now, he moved on to the hymn arrangement for Easter that he found last week. This one is out of an advance level hymn arrangement book but not nearly as complex as the classical piece he is facing giving him some much needed room to breathe.
Closets are actually a notoriously forgotten spaces in the homes. There is SO much space wasted in many closets, I admit, at least in my own experience in the 17 yrs that I owned a home at various places... The fact that I have never invested enough for wise use of closet is one reason but another is that i just don't have time to stop to think about how to organize the things in it,,, because once I close the door, I won't see it.

Boring topic, I know. but I also want to argue that some people definitely have made a ton of money insisting that the closet has to be organized. We see daily, in catalogs, magazines how perfectly organized and evenly spaced closet space should appear falsely accusing us of not doing our closets right! Well, my own closet would be the last to tackle since it would take more detailed planning and thorough thinking, but today, I organized one of the closet in our spare bedrooms which has about 50 boxes of games piled up and scattered also all over the room. I purchased a chrome shelf with three shelves from Lowe's,,,yes, they are making a few dollars off of me today... and built it with Erik taking advantage of the fact that Erik's school called off for snow/ice tomorrow. Erik and I had a good time putting it together and seeing how easy it is to access all the game boxes once they are placed on these shelves. Until today, half of them were on the floor and others were high on the shelf above the height of the clothes hanging rod beyond Erik's reach. Or at least not until he reaches 5 and a half feet.

Crate and Barrel, Ikea, and Container Company,,, and I am sure many other companies fooled us for years that we have to have everything organized, but do we? I guess I will have to think about an argument, one closet at a time.


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