For the past few nights, I've been pacing back and forth from my wardrobe into the living hall.
Should I? Should I not?
Took one out, and few minutes later, put it back into the wardrobe.
This one should go! But... but.. maybe I'll be able to find a matching pants to go with it later! Ok ok, keep first.
And the boy was observing me with this tremendous curiosity.
"Throwing clothes away again ah?"
I could only mustered up a weak smile.

The thing is, some of the clothes have been hiding in my wardrobe for months and some even years, untouched. Or maybe worn once or twice and then I never want to wear them again. Don't ask why, it's all about the 'Just because.' I'm sensing some female readers here go "Yes yes, me too me too!" ??? Please say yes so that I don't feel like this crazy biatch who buys clothes and just parks them in the wardrobe to collect dust.

And then, guiltyly gives them away.
Do you? Do you?!
I mean seriously, this is normal right! (in female speaking terms, ahem) 

Anyways, I have always been a fan of decluttering. Whenever I throw things out of the house, I feel happier.
So not only my unwanted clothes got packed up, Mr Tay's were not spared either.
But thank goodness he was participating as well. He gladly took out some of his shirts and pants that he hadn't worn in god knows how many donkey years and I folded them and packed them into the plastic bags.

Decluttering explained:

De-Cluttering and Organized Living Systems

Clutter creates dark corners, gathers dust and brings stagnation, blockages, and obstacles. People will shrink into smaller spaces to live and work. This limits free thinking, clarity of purpose and inability to see and capture opportunities.

It is as if you have lost one lung. You can still breath, but you must work harder at it. So much time is spent focussed on getting your breath. Precious time is lost to experiencing the vastness of life's wonders. De-cluttering is like getting both lungs back.....a sigh, a deep breath

The ultimate goal of de-cluttering is to create a functional living system and bring order. An organized home or office instills clarity, tranquility, productivity and vast opportunities.

- taken from White Lotus Feng Shui

So, decluttered again, I did.

2 months ago, I packed 2 big bags of clothes and passed them to mom. She gave me an earful for wasting money buying clothes and more clothes only to be worn once or twice and now, given away. I had initially wanted to just give them away to people / charity but when I did that once long time ago, my mom gave me an earful again. According to her, these unwanted clothes should be passed thru her FIRST, just so she could sieve through them and double-check to see whether I've gone mad enough to be giving away brand new clothes. I've actually done that. Bought some new clothes only to be kept in the wardrobe and when I 'accidentally discovered' them again, they don't seem very pretty anymore. So out into the plastic bags they went.

So today, I have another one big bag of clothes (mine and mr tay's) and one big bag of bags to be given away. This time, I decided they should NOT go thru mom first. She keeps them all anyway!!! Beats the purpose of decluttering, ain't it? So, I brought them into the office and gave them to the Indian auntie who cleans our office. She seemed very happy.

I wish I could show you how organized, spacious and airy my wardrobe looks like now.
*happy*