Weeding

No, not the garden, although that needs it too (always).

For reasons best known to themselves, a previous owner of the Gloucester house installed, in the master bedroom closet, a hanger bar that was rectangular rather than round in cross-section, which makes placing and removing hangers rather more of a pain that has any right to be.

For reasons best known to ourselves (which is to say, not known at all), we put up with this for close to 39 years. jwg did, in fact, get around to buying an extensible round hanger bar about 5 years ago, and it's been sitting in a corner next to his clothes hamper ever since, waiting for someone to decide to figure out how to install it.

During all this time, we have some how managed to fill the closet with so many shirts that it's something of a struggle to get out the one one wants to wear (and we mostly wear T-shirts in the summer anyway).

So this afternoon, John decided it was time, and with my assistance and some non-insurmountable difficulty, removed the old closet bar and installed the new one. This, of course, meant taking everything off the old one, which of course led to deciding what to put back when we were done. There were a lot of shirts on my side that I hadn't really seen in ages, including ones I couldn't remember ever having seen before.

There are still many more shirts in the closet than there need to be, but at least they're not packed like sardines, and we have two trash bags of clothes (mostly shirts, but there are some pants as well) waiting to be taken to a drop-box somewhere.

We still need to lots more of this kind of thing.