Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Organizing Blues - and Greens

‘Hey,’ said an old friend I’m meeting after 12 years. ‘Isn’t that the same blue whale t-shirt you had back then?’
‘It’s not, ‘ I reply, ‘then I had a dolphin, now it’s turned into a whale’.
In response to those who think I’m hopelessly fashion-challenged, or disorganized, or lazy :

TODAY is WARDROBE ORGANIZING DAY :

Here are my piles :

Pile 1 : To throw out - Those clothes I have worn for 10 years : Bye Bye blue whale T shirt. Bye Bye old blue jeans that I fell off a tree in, and then fell off a bike in. (blood stains to prove it). Bye Bye,– sorry, these go right back in.

Pile 2 : To throw out instead – Clothes I have NOT worn for 10 years (smarter !) There should go all my wedding trousseau sarees, but Ma will stage a hunger-strike, so sarees will go into Pile 3.

Pile 3 : Those clothes I have NOT worn for 10 years BUT will wear again : All those tiny tops and size 24 inch waist jeans. Some day I will lose the tummy and the thighs and the – oh forget it, will just give them to some stick-insect teen I meet.

Pile 4 : Shoooooooooes ! I have (opposed to the 3 pairs of footwear that S owns) - currently 27 pairs, out of which I wear my red keds almost every day. Yet, I keep going out and buying another pair of impossibly high heels. (All linked to childhood advice from my Dad – blame him – he said : “Aim High. Stand Tall.”)

Pile 5 : Slinky black dresses and night wear. Night wear now = pajamas. Stick-insect teen – your lucky day !

Pile 6 : Striped T Shirts in all colors. Love these. Buy them every time I sneeze. When I had my 11th, I read that horizontal stripes make you look fatter. Wottodo? Can’t wear my T Shirts at right angles, can I? Too late now. Keep all. Look at the positive - Would fit straight into a jail-break movie/ mental asylum flick (no reader comments accepted on this !)

Pile 7 : Lots of hairbands, caps, socks, (these are called Accessories by fashion mags). They work to color-co-ordinate your look, apparently. Hmmm – like when I’m formally dressed in a black silk sari, nothing like a pair of orange socks with ‘hiya captain’ on them to colorize the co-ordination.

Pile 8 : All other clothes – salwars, trousers, skirts – no more time left to waste, and no more shelves left, so just push them all into the one remaining shelf space, squeezed in between the books, which I have labelled as ‘Unstriped clothes’. (After all, books too qualify as unstriped clothes).

There ! Wardrobe Organized !

Learning (for you this time) : Now all of you who ask why I keep wearing the same red striped T Shirt in all my recent facebook pix, KNOW !

11 comments:

  1. Donate some of your old stuff to me. I like the way you dress. But not that red striped T- shirt now that everyone knows you're wearing it.
    And Jandy, I want to say that you write the same way as you organize. Hilariously !

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  2. Somewhere between pile 5 and pile 7 is a woman who knows herself so well.

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  3. somewhere between pile 5 and pile 7 is a woman who knows herself so well.

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  4. Was sent this link. Loved your blog. Spent too many hours of serious productive office time laughing instead.

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  5. Jane dear.............YOU ARE AMAZING!!!!Kya sense of humour hai yaar....Dil khush ho jaata hai tumhara blog padh kar.

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  6. Janey..........amazing sense of humour...love to read your blog..makes me happy....

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  7. I love that "Oh my favourite pair jeans - I WILL fit into you....... someday" pile. Good to know I'm not the only one living in lala land ;)

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  8. Count me in. Pile for pile with you, Janedy. And Hathi Patni.

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  9. this makes me wish i was the "stick-insect teen" you plan to donate your stuff.
    love the way you dress and carry yourself...
    well it makes me wish i had your sense of humor too :)
    I wish!

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  10. thanks all.
    puja and Guess Who - in Will, I am leaving you my stick insect clothes and my sense of humour.

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  11. Lol..u sound so much like me , or maybe I am so much like you when it comes to organizing stuff..or as u mentioned, a wardrobe(I simply dump everything, then dig everything when I need sumthng..and so the cycle goes)..And yeah I have lots of Pile 2 and 3 types of clothes.. and I wishfully think that someday I may reduce to my pre-delivery figure, maybe someday..who knows..sigh !

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