The sheer volume of it all! The drawers bursting in air. . . no, but bulging at least. We see ourselves holding up each dumb thing, each unidentified dreary object, week after week. Take a tip from an unexpected place--Pearl Diving!
Open one drawer, maybe a drawer full of clothes or fabrics, and dive for one thing you really like! Dust it off, shake it out, admire it. If it's gotten wrinkled in there with bad company, put it in the dryer with a slightly damp cloth on no heat (no, not if it's a shoe or album of baby pictures. Just above-the-floor clothes.) If it's reasonably fresh, try it on. Oops, it doesn't quite fit right now. Not even with the unbuttoned look.
Next step: Take a really pretty big bag. Go to the drug store if you have to, for a big "party" bag. (Those biggies are to shame you into buying more gifts) but we're doing tidy-organize here.
Take a nice envelope or a marker that writes pretty, and write Treasures on the bag. Wrap the blouse or whatever it is, and place it in the bag. Why?
When we treasure our really good stuff, even stuff we're a couple of cheescakes away from wearing, we can see more easily how non-wonderful the rest of our stuff is. How it begs to go into that clothing bin at the gas station. How someone somewhere is waiting for it. Maybe two-thirds of what's in that same clothes drawer is squashed in there because we never wear it and hope not to.
So, there's really no need to hold those items up and decide. You know what to do. If the giver asks where it went, you can honestly say you don't know any more. Better yet, change the subject to her favorite man, or go to the powder room before the giver decides you want more of what you just donated.
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