#21 I Cleaned my cupboard !

Hi friends,
how does your cupboard/ closet look ? (let me know in the comments at the end)

Mine was cluttered for the past year. This is very hard for me to admit, as this comes off as a weakness that I would not want to admit. But here we are, I didn’t manage it well for over a year, since I came back to India last year.

By cluttered here I mean, it was not well managed as to formals , regular wear, exercise wear, etc. Since I came back I had just been dumping in the clothes after washing and folding them, but it was all mixed up.

In all this mess, there was a small area which had regular wear which I just kept rotating and neglecting the remaining closet in plain sight.

If any of the regular t-shirt went in the other part , it’s gone missing in plain sight. I would literally just wear clothes stacked in one column over and over again.

This was like a learned blindness to the remaining clothes, unless I was going out, when I would hunt in the closet for what to wear among the lot many other options I have.

I think this was also due to the fact that I have a lot of clothes and it’s like a wasted decision every morning to decided what to wear… so I started to focus on 1 column of clothes to select from…

So why did I clean my closet after a year ?

Well, my friend Luv sent me a surprise T-shirt with the following text, ‘STUDY WITH ME ON YOUTUBE’ to wear in my live streams.

This t-shirt went in the non-regular pile of clothes and I didn’t wear it for probably 2 months.

When Luv asked me last Thursday, where this was, I was pretty sure it’s there, but not being used.

So I thought that I should look it up and wear tomorrow.

While I was thinking of doing this, I realised a friend told me about doing some therapeutic deep cleaning of the room . So I thought why not do this for my cupboard…

But why hadn’t I cleaned/ organised my cupboard for over a year ?

I had been pushing this off for after the exam. My thought process had been, let me finish the exam so I can clean it well and organise it well. Also Mom has taken over some space in my cupboard so I wanted to shift and get thing is proper order, which would require reorganising not just my, but even moms cupboard.

But, it was now that I realised that I had to do it right away. I had been pushing this for quite a bit too long…

So it took me 2 morning and nights after my 12 hour live streams to completely clean the cupboard…

I am so glad I just finally did this. It looks so much better and makes me feel good every time I open it now.

So takeaway message-
JUST DO IT !

Hope you liked this weeks newsletter.
See you all next, with a year in review …

Thank you for reading !

-Naushad Khan