Fixing a closet to nowhere. I can do this!
3 days. It’s what I planned to take for completing a task that seems rather impossible. Especially for someone with mobility issues holding two crutches, is kind of tough when you have to open the door to a door. It wasn’t until I asked myself why is it so difficult for me? That I realized my main problem. The door to my closet is located next to my dresser, and behind a door that went opened blocks the door. The only way that I can open the door to the closet is by holding onto my dresser with one hand crutch on my arm, hanging in the other, close the door to my bedroom, which blocks the door, then reach with my right hand to open the closet door. At this point I hope that I make it in over the pile of clothes that I just threw in on the floor last time. The hanging rod that is where I put it, mind you, I changed the configuration of the closet to accommodate me, well, that hanging rod is now blocking my way when clothes are hanging on it. It seemed like a good idea at the time, just looking at the hangers up they’re not blocking my path, but when the clothes are hanging on it, they block my way. So, instead of hanging my clothes up on the hangers, I just throw my clothes in the closet.
On the floor.
If I’m lucky, I have room for just one more sweatshirt or shirt in my top dresser drawer, that I can stuffing. My clothes have become a pile in my drawer, and the other clothes are very difficult to manage in the dresser. A lot of this has to do with my mobility and the inability to hold on safely while doing something with another hand. And moving things from one place to another, that’s a riot. So I need to plan this safely without risk of falling, and to allow myself time enough to re-organize to get my life back.
When listing the steps that I needed to take, I realized I would need three days to do it. Day one was yesterday, and I completely cleaned out my dresser, and one side of an armoire that my husband is going to swap out with me from his side of the room. For the second day, he just needs to clear out his clothes, I need to remove my stuff from the top of the dresser, and he hast to do the same. This is going to involve dusting. For the third day, which is tomorrow, Sunday, November 4, we will take moving men and swap furniture, and vacuum and clean out whatever is left behind the dresser or on the floor. I guess it’s time to do that anyway.
So, instead of breaking down, I broke it down. Steps first, then, planning on how many days it will take. I used to just tackle one big project at a time. But now that I am older, a little bit wiser, and a little bit further along in my chronic illness we’re moving is not as easy when I was a young whippersnapper, I have found that it is very empowering to have a message to planning. It could be a method to madness, but it never is when I plan. That is why planning is so far up on my totem pole with my 13 virtues, self development project. I am now into week two starting yesterday, forgiving myself for three days after my Covid booster and being out of commission. I can’t wait to complete this and start on the path to having full access to my clothing again.
