Sunday, January 20, 2013

10 Things in My Closet

It's Listicles time again! Before we get under weigh with this week's list, I thought I'd declare the winner for last week's quiz on movie quotes. Looks like Rob got all the movies right. Just in case you wanted to check, here are the answers from last week:
  1. "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!" The Godfather, Part III
  2. "Say hello to my little friend!" Scarface
  3. "He's only mostly dead." The Princess Bride
  4. "You talkin' to me?" Taxi Driver
  5. "Help, help! I'm being repressed!" Monty Python's Holy Grail
  6.  "...get me the machine that goes PING!" Monty Python's Meaning of Life
  7. "They're heeere!" Poltergeist
  8. "Bueller? ... Bueller? ... Bueller?" Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  9. "Go ahead. Make my day." Dirty Harry
  10. "If you build it, he will come." Field of Dreams
Thanks for playing, everybody!

This week's topic from Stasha is Ten Things in Your Closet. I actually did a Listicle a while back about my house & one of the things that drives me nuts about it is that we only have two actual closets for hanging clothes plus a tiny linen closet. No entryway closet for coats, no closets in two of the bedrooms, no pantry, no storage closet... two. Just two. So as you can imagine, they are stuffed to the gunnels. Mine & Oli's is pretty boring, to be honest, just clothing, shoes & a bit of luggage. So I thought I'd write this Listicle about ten things that are in Sprout's closet. Some you'd expect, some, maybe not so much.
  1. My ice skates.
  2. The side of Sprout's crib.
  3. Quite a lot of baby toys & diapers that Sprout's grown out of.
  4. At least a half dozen pairs of shoes, half he's grown out of & the other half will fit in the next year.
  5. Three Hallowe'en costumes: a skeleton (ha ha, skeleton in the closet!), a bat & an elephant.
  6. A bag of now-too-small borrowed boy clothes to be returned to my sister.
  7. Playard parts that we never used. 
  8. My wedding dress & one of Oliver's suits.
  9. My breast pump.
  10. At least ten little clothes hangers that we rarely use, as all Sprout's clothes generally get tossed into drawers & never hung up.
There are a lot more than ten things in that closet, as you can see. Despite my best attempts at organization, thanks to Ikea (we use their giant shopping bags for so many things, like clothes he's grown out of, laundry, tidying up, even luggage on car trips) this closet is a bit nuts. One of two air returns for the furnace is in the bottom of his closet & it's only accessible because we've propped the laundry basket of too-small prefold diapers up on a baby bath rest thingie.

Are all your closets this packed or are you one of those people whose closets look like something out of an Architectural Digest? (Wait, do they even show closets in that magazine?) What are the weirdest things you've got behind closed closet doors? Confess your closet sins below...





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20 comments:

  1. Love that he has a skeleton in his closet! Yep, my boy's closet has odd items in too. Great list girl.

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    1. Yeah, the skelly costume was his first one when he was just a couple of months old. :) Thanks!

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  2. Now that is one serioulsy stuffed closet. I feel your pain on lack of storage.

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    1. The funny thing is, I realized after photographing it that there's actually a big space on the top shelf. I could probably stash at least a couple more cubic feet of junk in there!

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  3. I felt a flood of relief when I saw your photo; I was worried everybody else would have one of those professionally organized closets- phew! And come to think of it, where the heck is *my* breastpump?

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    1. Glad to help with the relief... LOL. Funny about the breast pumps being so easy to misplace. For something that's really quite expensive, you'd think we'd be more careful, hey? Though, then again, when I was done with mine, I never wanted to see the damn thing again!

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  4. Wow! I don't know how I would survive with only two closets. I'd have to buy a whole bunch of wardrobes, at least wherever there was room for them.

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    1. What ended up happening is those other two bedrooms have become giant (okay, not actually giant by North American standards) closets. Neither is needed for a bedroom right now, thankfully, but if we were to have guests or another child we'd have a serious task ahead of us. Ulp.

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  5. 2 closets!?
    surely there's a crawl space somewhere? Like mine under the stairs which I have christened "the scary place'. Yeah...my Listicle does not show that space. I don't even let the children go in there for fear I'd lose one.

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    1. Crawl space? Noooo... we have a full size basement which is fully rented out so that we can ( barely) afford the insane real estate prices in Vancouver. I see the problem less as a lack of space & more as just having too much junk.

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  6. My closet in my bedroom is nearly as bad..except it is a walk-in. Let me see..odd things in there...there was a breastpump (given away now), two nursing pillows (one single, one double), Xmas advent calendar, my SFU degree, summer clothes for N&K to keep them from wearing shorts all winter, a Darth Vader cape, a laundry sorter, various things stashed on the highest shelf that I don't want my children playing with (ie. toys they use as weapons etc), one of Nannys afghans..a puzzle-picture of Grampy's. And way too many clothes and shoes that I don't wear. I can squeeze in and stand in the 1 foot square floor space to grab things, but most of it is crammed full of junk. A lot of junk that I can't put in N&K's closet because they use it for a playhouse.

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    1. Yes, I can imagine N & K insisting on shorts in January... LOL

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  7. My closets are STUFFED! You know what is the worst? I always saved my older girl's shoes for my younger daughter and I ALWAYS missed when they would fit. Always. So naturally they are stilled just stuffed up on the shelf. Ellen

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    1. Ooh, argh! So far we haven't missed any of the shoes I've bought ahead of time. Won't make any guarantees of the sort once I have two children though!

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  8. I love that my closet isn't the only one that has a ton of stuff in it!! Isn't it funny how much stuff we have for kids that is too small or too big :)

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    1. I know, right? I've got sizes from newborn to 6 in there. He currently wears a 3. Plus I have a steady stream of hand-me-downs from his cousin, so I really should stop shopping. Right now!

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  9. Yeah I didn't dare do our coat closet, because well it has some coats but more junk than anything else. I hear ya on the breast pump. I was blessed with huge boobs, heard all my life my children would never starve, never could establish enough milk to feed them. A breast pump was a torture device for me, the most I ever got was an ounce out of BOTH breasts after forever attached. Finally lactation specialist said nope just really nice pillows for baby and hood ornaments, no feeding from here.

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    1. Oh I feel ya on the low milk supply. So heartbreaking. I nevered pumped much more than that either. I always wondered if size DID have something to do with it, as I have the opposite issue--barely fill an A cup!

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  10. Only two? I should never complain about lack of closet space again! It kills me how much baby/kid stuff still hangs around even after its useful life is over. I’d say you’ve kept it pretty well organized for having such limited storage space.

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    1. Well, that closet is probably the best organized part of the whole house. You should see the rest... ulp.

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