True confession time? How many of you, when you receive a gift (Christmas, birthday, whatever) in a lovely gift bag, instead of traditional wrapping paper, carefully fold that bag and put it away, so you can use it to wrap someone else's gift? I have had that habit for years, as I discovered when emptying the guestroom closet in my apartment today. Or maybe I'm just a closet hoarder. One of the things I loved about my apartment, when I moved in eight years ago, was the closet space - two large walk-in closets, four standard size closets and one good size linen closet, all of which I was able to fill quite thoroughly in eight years. Most of the closets were filled with clothes or household equipment (does anyone need an ironing board?). But the linen closet and the guest bedroom closet, the ones we emptied today, in our drive to be ready for the movers on Thursday, were the excitingly mysterious ones. The linen closet because it's so easy to push stuff to the back. How many bottles of partly used, dried up nail polish does one person need? And the guest bedroom closet because, well, because, even when I left hanging space for guest clothes, had ample room all around the sides and on the shelves for stuff. All my yarn and weaving equipment lived there, also all my Christmas decor, including the tree which we actually moved to the house before Christmas. And, as I alluded to above, lots and lots of wrapping paper and a fine collection of gift bags. Not only that, I discovered another bag full of bags of the non-gift type. You know, the kind with nice little handles that you get when you shop at some of the better shops. In case you're wondering, all of the bags were disposed of. But never fear, I have plenty of time to build up a new collection, and a big basement to store them in. Shush, don't tell my husband.
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