Life in the Twilight Zone - Let the Cleanup Commence

We've always known that Mum has a lot of clothes, she has her favourites (that you see her wearing a lot), her just in cases, and her lets waste some money on something I don't need nor will I ever wear clothes. Last weekend we emptied her chest of drawers, one garbage bag of crap, one of donatable stuff, and a drawer full for her to take to the nursing home. Now don't go thinking, a drawer? seriously? you are horrible people lol. These drawers are big, she had 2 drawers full of socks, who the hell needs 70 (might be an exaggeration) pairs of socks. Black, navy, brown, white, orange, red and pale blue. My sock drawer, is black and white socks, that's it, and not even close to the number she had. She also had 2 drawers full of undies, bras and singlets. She now has 20 pairs of undies (she doesn't need that much, but they will wear out) about 4 bras, and 10 singlets. The next 2 drawers were filled with summer and winter pjs. She had enough to wear a different set every night, now she doesn't lol. She also had ones in with holes in them, or she had the pants but not the top to match, or vice a versa, pants with no elastic, and nighties that she never wears cause she hates nighties. 

As I cull, I can't help but think what she could of done with the money she wasted. She could of renoed the kitchen like she wanted, or the bathroom which needed it. But nope, lets go shopping and buy shit I don't need. Had to go round to meet an agent this morning, so went early to start tackling her room again, yep still cleaning out one fucking room, and can't move onto the next until that is done. She has a small room off her bedroom, that was built as a study, but she turned into a walk in robe. That is now emptied, the 2 racks of clothes she had in there are now gone. I didn't get rid of it all lol, I have kept some, like the long sleeved tops and pants that she will need come winter. But no one needs 10 pairs of black track pants, and that isn't an exaggeration, unfortunately. I basically kept one pair of each colour for her. She can still mix and match, she likes to do that, but what she has is manageable and still more than me lol. I've got some piles that need to be labelled with the nifty new labels I got her, and stuff to pack away for winter. I was thinking today though, that with an 8 drawer chest of drawers and the wardrobe at the home, I might be able to fit all seasons in. Not that she could, but I damn well can, do it with my shit, so should be able to do it with hers lol.

I was up yesterday to take some stuff up and pay her a visit, was hanging a couple of things up and folding others, and she goes, 
"Oh you need to hang those." 
"They're track pants Mum, I'm not hanging track pants."
"They hold the iron crease better if hung."
"No one is ironing track pants Mum, they get folded, this is the space you have, nothing more, just this."
"Oh, can we get another wardrobe?"

I took a deep breath and said no, then continued with putting away her clothes lol.

So today I took 5 bags of clothes to donate, there are still 2 there, that I couldn't fit in the car, and I haven't started on her actual wardrobe yet. So yeh, you can see how much crap she has. I even found the covers for fold up umbrellas, she had 6 of them, no umbrellas to match just the covers lol. I also threw out most of the coat hangers she has, I'd say, out of the ones I threw away, 80% of them are the plastic ones they use in the store. And 20% of them were wire hangers that are just gross (yes Caryn, no wire hangers lol). She has 7 spare at the home, and about 30 on her bed, she won't need them, so I'll see if anyone in the family wants them, once I make sure she has enough. 

Next to tackle will be her wardrobe, no doubt I'll get 5 bags to donate out of that as well, sigh. Out of the stuff I've selected for her to have at the home, I will probably cull again, seemed to me like it was too much, but it is both summer and winter, so once I sort that I'll have a better idea. Then I can finally get to her bed, strip it down, store the quilt after washing, and the blanket, the electric blanket I'll sell at the garage sale, and then I can move onto the next room. I have to admit, her room and the backroom are the worse, not going near my brothers room, that's up to him, I'd just go in there with a blow torch lol. The lounge suite is going to be sold, the tv is going with Andrew, and Mums chair is going with her, that just leaves a lamp (sell) some coffee tables (sell) exercise bike (sell), her old foldable table (not sure yet) and an old desk that is falling apart (tip). My old bedroom still has my original bed (tip), bookshelves (sell), Andrews pc and desk (going with him) and in the wardrobe, patchwork materials, wadding etc (sell). All in all, it's the clean up and deciding what needs to be preserved, like photos etc, what needs to be sold and what needs to be turfed lol. 

With all of that, plus all the running around I'm doing, is it any wonder, I'm absolutely exhausted and have a constant headache. Well time to have some food, then back to it, sigh. 

Catch yas
Cathy