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Day 14
I peeked in my son's room yesterday, and it looked like a tornado had hit it. (Not an unusual occurence.) A tornado that mostly targeted clothes. So eventually, I sent him upstairs to deal with it.
He came back down.
Beachpsalms: Did you put away your clothes?
Boy: Yeee---esss.
Beachpsalms: *raised eyebrows* Really? Do they all fit in your dresser?
Boy: Weelllll.... they were mostly from my hamper, so I put them back in the hamper.
Beachpsalms: You put the clean clothes back in the hamper?? Because they won't fit in your dresser?
Boy: Uh.
So I sent him upstairs to find 5 shirts he could live without (We went through his clothes 3 days ago! That's how I know his dresser was too full.); and the pants that he thought fit, but don't.
He came back with his clothes, and said "Fine! But now YOU have to get rid of some clothes!"
"I," with a smug tone "Got rid of 3 pairs of pants, two shirts and 2 pairs of jeans yesterday".
"OH NO" he retorted "You have to get rid of SHAWLS."
Shawls? Shawls? But I knit, I wear them, I LOVE shawls.
"Oh, hell yes" the teenage girl piped in.
So.
Eventually I went upstairs, and looked at my shawls. Well. I looked at the crammed full shelves that have sweaters, scarves, shawls and assorted knitwear. And for the first time; I really started to hear that inner voice complaining: But this was expensive; it's hardly ever been worn, it's nice, I made it. Hmmm... I thought. I don't recall having this problem with pants.
Out: 1 capelet, 1 poncho, 1 knit scarf, 1 brocade wrap, 3 shrugs, 3 sweaters
In: a small sliver of sanity
Writing out that list, I can see that while I managed to convinced my kids that capelets, wide scarves, ponchos and wraps fall into the category of shawls, I didn't actually get rid of anything I consider to be a shawl.
*headdesk*
I peeked in my son's room yesterday, and it looked like a tornado had hit it. (Not an unusual occurence.) A tornado that mostly targeted clothes. So eventually, I sent him upstairs to deal with it.
He came back down.
Beachpsalms: Did you put away your clothes?
Boy: Yeee---esss.
Beachpsalms: *raised eyebrows* Really? Do they all fit in your dresser?
Boy: Weelllll.... they were mostly from my hamper, so I put them back in the hamper.
Beachpsalms: You put the clean clothes back in the hamper?? Because they won't fit in your dresser?
Boy: Uh.
So I sent him upstairs to find 5 shirts he could live without (We went through his clothes 3 days ago! That's how I know his dresser was too full.); and the pants that he thought fit, but don't.
He came back with his clothes, and said "Fine! But now YOU have to get rid of some clothes!"
"I," with a smug tone "Got rid of 3 pairs of pants, two shirts and 2 pairs of jeans yesterday".
"OH NO" he retorted "You have to get rid of SHAWLS."
Shawls? Shawls? But I knit, I wear them, I LOVE shawls.
"Oh, hell yes" the teenage girl piped in.
So.
Eventually I went upstairs, and looked at my shawls. Well. I looked at the crammed full shelves that have sweaters, scarves, shawls and assorted knitwear. And for the first time; I really started to hear that inner voice complaining: But this was expensive; it's hardly ever been worn, it's nice, I made it. Hmmm... I thought. I don't recall having this problem with pants.
Out: 1 capelet, 1 poncho, 1 knit scarf, 1 brocade wrap, 3 shrugs, 3 sweaters
In: a small sliver of sanity
Writing out that list, I can see that while I managed to convinced my kids that capelets, wide scarves, ponchos and wraps fall into the category of shawls, I didn't actually get rid of anything I consider to be a shawl.
*headdesk*