Day Two Hundred and Sixty

I admit I am the teensiest bit overwhelmed.

I've started in earnest on Item #36 (sort and give away kids' old clothes). To count this item as truly finished, these things would need to happen:

• The only things in their drawers and main closet areas will be clothes that are in good repair and fit them.
• The only clothes in their closets that aren't currently in use will be ones they haven't grown into yet.
• A few carefully selected items will be saved for sentimental value (e.g. the outfits they wore home from the hospital, the fancy baby dress given to Boo by my childhood piano teacher, etc.). These will be cleaned, folded, and stored in a permanent and safe place.
  
• All clothes that are worn beyond salvaging will be thrown away, and any T-shirts in this category with memories associated would have the fronts cut off first to make a T-shirt quilt some day.
• Some of the really cute stuff will be saved for a few younger kids we know, and given to them - the one exception will be their infant cousin, since I don't mind hanging onto some of Buddy's clothes for a while if we know they'll go to Monkey at some point.
• All clothes made by me or my mom will be sorted by gender and size, cleaned, and stored neatly.
  
• All remaining clothes which show some wear but are still usable will be given to Goodwill.
• All remaining clothes which are in like-new condition will be taken to the resale shop.
• A "clearing house" area will be established for clothes that are recently grown out of, but are the wrong season to donate to the resale shop. As clothes come into this area, they'll be cleaned, folded neatly, and labeled with the date that I can take them to the resale shop.

This would be a lot easier if I didn't still have bags, LARGE bags, of the clothes I always kind of meant to sort out but never exactly got around to.

The picture at the top is just part of two boxes of clothes (plus a bunch of stuff from Buddy's closet) that were partway through the sorting process but are now completely processed. The picture below is of two more boxes, which I sorted yesterday but haven't finished taking to the appropriate places.



There are still two huge bags of clothes in my closet, unknown numbers of outgrown dresses and skirts in Boo's closet, and I have no idea what lurks in the corners of the laundry room.

I need a Sorting Fairy.