Ready, set, Pack! Move! & Reset!

I'm packing in preparation for our house move this coming Monday.

In a perfect world I would have liked to declutter our possessions whilst packing.  Alas, the world is far from perfect, so I will make do with vowing to myself that nothing shall be put away into a shelf/cupboard/wardrobe in our new home without first being scrutinised as to its usefulness.

There are no walk-in robes or built-in wardrobes in any of the bedrooms in our new home (a deal breaker for most, but I maintain that the existence of such features makes rooms less versatile), so as of this coming Monday my boyfriend and I will be back to sharing a 3 door IKEA PAX wardrobe.  The last time we did this I had my boyfriend storing his knits in Net-a-Porter boxes (oh, the humanity!). Welcome to my new nightmare... or should I say challenge?

Although my wardrobe is far less over flowing than when I started in my culling adventures over a year ago, thanks to an overseas shopping spree and a number of momentary lapses of judgement during the Winter sales, again I feel a necessary cull brewing.

In the outset I had hoped to have my 'ideal wardrobe' sorted by the start of 2012, but in reality my wardrobe is far from ideal... So just as the Australian Bureau of Statistics has reset the index numbers for each index series as of the September quarter of this year (which by the way totally caught me off guard whilst doing a calculation at work - I knew something was not right when my calculation indicated that the cost of living had halved in the last year... if only), I'm resetting my cull tallies and hence my ideal wardrobe journey.

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  1. I can't believe you are sharing a wardrobe. The mere thought makes me shudder. The last time I moved house, all the packing was done for me as part of the house purchase deal. When everything arrived in the house, I went through the lengthy process of unpacking and sorting out items and putting them in my wardrobe. Everything was done just so, it looked like a Benetton store. However, after a number of boxes, I lost the will and some boxes didn't get opened for months erm years. There's a part of me which says I should have got rid before I moved but my logic was wait till the new house to see what happens. I didn't want to be in that position where I had something suitable but decided to throw it away and then have to rebuy again.

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    1. :) I think mine will look like a goodwill store given the lack of space.

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  2. Good luck with the culling and the moving. We moved to a house with 1 (ugly) built-in wardrobe in the spare room which I share with the other half - not ideal but you get used to it... One day (probably very far away) we will have a wardrobe each!

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    1. Yes new wardrobes aren't on our priority list either.

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  3. You're not alone. I am still prone to ending up with unwanted garments regardless how convinced I thought I had been when purchasing. I have three such items sat at the foot of my bed right now, waiting for me to decide whether they go to charity or wind up shoved away out of sight until something miraculously redeems them. I wouldn't call it a cull situation exactly, but a reminder that this process has no firm conclusions/solutions, unless I develop a much stricter attitude to shopping - a more extreme/obsessive regime may take away some of the sheer random joy and fun involved, so it's tricky.

    And good luck with the move - a new challenge, but an exciting one no doubt! x

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    1. Yes we are very excited about our new place... Christmas and time off needs to hurry up. I have so many projects to tackle!

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  4. Weird, it says my comment was left on Nov 5th yet it is only the 4th! Are you in Australia?

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  5. I have a tiny wardrobe from Ikea which I share with my daughter. Friends are shocked when they see how small it is. It keeps me in check though. I cringe when I thought about the amount of clothes that I stashed away when I had a much bigger closet in Auckland. It was a revelation when I finally dug out the clothes. I couldn't even remember 50% of the clothes I had in there.

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    1. We have a 3 door IKEA Pax and some chests of draws (plus my Billy bookcases for shoes). It will have to do... so I looking forward to editing it all.

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