Cleaning out the closets and dressers during the pandemic
Today, my mood is content. My kids and I have been having the most wonderful week. They have been super helpful, which is always a surprise. Like everyone else, we have been home due to the virus that is circulating around. And now that it's summer, they have been getting really bored and antsy. So, I gave them an idea last week: go through their closets, dressers, and their entire rooms, getting rid of any clothes that don’t fit them anymore. Or rather I should say, getting ready to get rid of their old clothes. See, we realize that there is no reason to throw away your old clothes like garbage. What we do every few months to every year (depending on whether there is a growth spurt in progress, like two years ago when my youngest boy was growing half a foot in three months) is we take out all of their clothes and put them in a pile in the middle of the floor. Whatever they don’t like goes into the Staten Island clothes donations pile. Whatever they aren’t sure...