Angela: What kind of a sytem would I have to put in place to get you to put your clothes away? Because when pretty much all of them are on the floor, it's a sign the current system's not working.
Haki: Well, I hate drawers. I hate not being able to close them, and hate stuff sticking out...the pulling them open...it's all so much effort.
Angela: (I wiped away my instinctive smirk - but his passion about drawers was hilarious!) Would you prefer shelves?
Haki: Yeah, shelves would be a lot easier - then I could actually see what I'm getting at too.
I got shelves.
2 years ago...
Haki's clothes continued to pile up on the floor.
In the mornings, he rummaged through the floor-pile.
Haki: These shelves suck. (Imagine him spitting these words out.)
Angela: But you hated the drawers.
Haki: Shelves would be better if they weren't these shelves. The shelves come loose when I stuff it too full...and they're not deep enough...and the bottom ones...you have to bend to get stuff out, it's just annoying.
Angela: Gotcha.
This year...
Haki's clothes = still form a trip-over-me-mound at the base of the bed.
Morning routine = rummage; ask after the location of needed item/s.
I got deeper, fixed shelves.
I put the shelves inside the wardrobe to conceal them...should they be less than orderly. I used two short shelves, so that Haki's dress clothes could still hang above them. But apparently bending was too much to ask...as the all-too-familiar mound reappeared.
Angela: I see you have a new system.
Haki: Yeah, you like it?
Angela: No.
Haki: It's pretty much exactly like the old system.
Angela: (I stifled laughter, as his homage to Black Books was truly poetic, and almost had his desired effect; "distract her from her pursuit of bedroom-floor happiness", instead, I mustered a brow-wrinkle and shook it off), Seriously, how can we keep your clothes so that when I crawl out of bed in the early hours to change Esky, for example, I don't have to conquer a hazard to make it safely? I'm carrying her honey, it's dodgey.
Haki: I want to keep all of my clothes...on the floor.
This week...
I called the man's bluff.
Yes, the pile was huge. Haki has a lot of clothes. He says I have more than him...but I'm not so sure.
After 24 hours of experimenting with the purist version of Haki's long-loved system, he gratefully accepted my offer to stack the short (and therefore incredibly inconvenient) shelves on top of each other (already done in the picture, above), and put all of his clothes back, with those used less frequently on the bottom shelf.
Which, I'll be honest, I was dying to do from the beginning.
Every now and then, it just has to be done.
And that, my friends, is what we call "An Afternoon with CNP". Also, more room for my shoes on the wardrobe floor.
NB: Esky looked on from the middle of our bed, as I commentated - justifying my choices as I placed each garment, as well as noting my favour (or lack of) for each item.
5 comments:
You must have been in your absolute organizing glory!
I really want you to come to my house... NOW!!
I recently forced a similar sort on my husband. He hadn't gotten rid of anything in about 7 years and the pile on the floor of his closet reached the bottom of the clothes and there was no room to hang another hanger. I carried everything but the top shelf to the living room couch so he couldn't ignore it. He sorted into: keep, toss, and save for when he loses weight. (ha). MUCH better.
My clothes, as you can see, take up a quarter of the wardrobe. Ange's clothes take up the rest. I mean the other 3 quarters of the wardrobe is choca-block with her clothes. If this was a Google Maps satellite shot of our room and you could swivel the view to the right a bit you would see another shelf of clothes dedicated to Ange's singlets, under garments, t-shirts and cardigans. My clothes are a lot bigger than hers so the volume of my clothes may take up half of the volume of her clothes, but I would have a tenth of the amount she has. Just saying...
I believe you Haki!
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