Cleaning out the Closets
Sep 16th, 2009 by Katie
I was on a hunt for my favorite red necklace. It’s the one I wore in my author photo and it has a lot of meaning to me. It also perfectly matches the shoes I want to wear tomorrow. When I saw that it wasn’t hanging on my jewelery rack and then realized it wasn’t in my overflow jewelry box, I became determined. Life would pause while I turned over ever last inch of the apartment until I found this necklace. (Of course, this only meant I could put off my accounting homework a while longer.) I mined through bags and boxes and piles and heaps in my tiny little closet and boy, oh, boy was there an amazing stash of treasure back there. I am grateful for all the things I owned, and forgot about, only to discover like it was the first time again.
- all of my jewelry from Senegal
- all of my dresses from Senegal
- 3 meters of sweet fabric from Ghana that I’ve been meaning to make something out of
- a vintage dress that I’ve never even worn
- three button down shorts in the exact same shade of pink
- shoes that i’ve never worn because they kill my feet that I am happy to bring to goodwill
- a BRAND NEW sweater from anthropologie…yes, anthropologie!!!…. that I bought a few weeks ago and then proceeded to completely forget about. this is better than finding a $100 bill in the back of your jeans!
An expression of gratitude for all that is good in my life.
Will you be bringing any of those treasures to the exchange?!
Ooh! I love those discoveries. The sweater I wore last night was one of those. =)
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