. . . lives in a cleaner house. I can’t guarantee you’ll stay together but at least you’ll have one less thing to disagree on.
For the first time in the 2011 de-cluttering effort, dear husband has really engaged in it. He starts a new job in April after a very long period of unemployment. He has not updated his work clothes in years so he had to buy a bunch of new things so that he looked professional. In the process of putting his new clothes away, we decided to clear out some of the old stuff. He still had shirts from when we met – 8+ years ago. And it isn’t like those shirts were new when we met so they’re probably 10 or more years old. He wouldn’t wear them so they got shoved to the back of the closet – never to be seen again. I did the first run through the shirts and pulled out about eight shirts. I gave him the option to veto, and he only vetoed one. Then he went through the shirts again, and then his shoes and his t-shirts. We got rid of things that looked dated or worn out, stuff that didn’t fit right, and stuff that I deemed “high maintenance”. Since I do the ironing, I prefer as many wrinkle-free and easy care shirts as we can have. The result was 23 items to Goodwill and 16 items to the trash. We ran out of time and energy before we could finish with all of his clothes, but that will do for now. I love getting him involved in this sort of thing because it trips a switch and then he’s off a cleaning and purging binge. We love getting rid of things. I appreciate having a spouse who shares my enthusiasm for a clean streamlined house. Being a team makes clearing out and maintaining order a lot easier on everyone.
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