The New Me!

I decided to kick off my new ways like any self respecting self-helper…by cleaning! Your closet is essentially a euphemism for the status of you current situation; Mess=Emotional Mess, Clean=Everything is gonna be OK. So, I made the 5 piles (picked this trick up from the DIY network) but I do my own variation: stuff I love but never wear, stuff I look really cute in, stuff I may give to by BFF one day if she’s good, crap from my purses (which act not unlike Manhattan Mini Storage for small random items) and Jeans which I own exactly 24 pairs. The jeans are sub divided into 3 categories: fat jeans, jeans I can wear when I lose that 3-6 lbs and just right. Over the 3 hours it took to get my life back to “Everything is going to be OK” status I found $34.25 (mostly in ones and change), an amazing hot pink sequin tube dress that is the essence of all that is holy, 10 hair ribbons, a hand full of hair clips and hair bands (always scavenging for those) and a book on my idol Martha Stewart that I started reading 2 months ago. I feel better already. Cleaning is the new Xanax…not!