Get Organized: My Closet

     I consider myself to be a creative person, and as we have learned in class, creative people can escape gender stereotypes.  The gender stereotype that I escape is clothes.  I love clothes.  I love fashion.  I like shopping for and buying clothes.  I'm not sure why, but my best guess would either be that I love looking good, or I love spending money.  Its probably both...
      So, I have a lot of clothes. A LOT of clothes.  Its almost ridiculous.  I also have almost 10 different pairs of shoes that I wear on a regular basis as well.  Now that you know this about me, you can probably guess how my closet looks.  Needless to say, its very messy.  I have 9 different shelves and drawers on which I put my jeans, shorts, shirts, sweaters, shoes, hats, and other clothing pieces.  Now this isn't counting the 2 other places I use to hang other clothes.  I've been avoiding organizing this part of my closet for a long time, but since I had this assignment, I found a perfect opportunity to organize and do homework at the same time!
     Beforehand, I still wasn't very excited that I had to organize all the piles of clothes that were jammed into the small space.  I was thinking that I would have much rather been playing video games, or going on Facebook   However, I decided to plug in my headphones, turn on some good music, and get down to organizing.  It took me about an hour to take everything out, stack them in neat piles, and put them back in.  It took me another 15 minutes to just organize all my shoes and re-hang all of my hanging shirts, pants, and jackets.  Afterwards, however, I stepped back from the closet, took a good hard look, and felt really good about what I had just done.
     I feel like if I wasn't simply motivated by the fact that I needed to do it for a class, it would have felt much better.  That being said, I was still extremely satisfied with the work I had done.  I didn't realize how many clothes I actually have.  I knew I had quite a lot, but I didn't realize how many I actually had.  I also saw how my fashion has changed over the years.
     I like that everything is organized now, but now it is just a matter of maintaining this level of neatness.  I guess we'll see how long that lasts!