You remember me showing you this deadline week disaster. The rack and shelves in my wardrobe ended up spontaneously collapsing, taking all my clothes with it.
I have a philosophy about bad things happening, especially when I'm busy: it could always be worse. In that yes, my closet self-destructed, but we can fix it ourselves. Would have been much worse if the wall had come down with the clothes.
It took about an hour to clean up, and my clothes went to live in the spare bedroom while my guy repaired everything. The rack and shelves just needed to be remounted, this time correctly.
I tried to see this as an opportunity rather than the pain in the butt that it was. I'm not naturally a glass-half-full person, but it's the healthier attitude. So when my guy had finished the repair work I started putting my clothes back while removing things that were too big, too heavy or that I didn't like for some reason. I also weeded out most of my old cold-weather jackets, as I only need a few, and my old professional clothes as I'm not going to need them any more (I left a couple of dresses for future social events I probably won't attend, either, lol.)
That took a couple of hours, and here's my greatly reduced wardrobe. The hangers you see on the left are from all the clothes I purged. We now have two boxes and two big bags of nice clothes to donate to the church thrift store, and things are back to as normal as they get around here. :)
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