Cleaning!

I went through my whole closet and my laundry basket today and weighed all my clothes. Clothes that definitely don't fit and there's no way I want to keep, I've taken out. I've thrown away old pairs of shoes that I retired to the closet as being too old to wear for day to day stuff. My current pair isn't so nice that I'd want to protect them from anything. All of my clothes, sweatshirts, socks, shoes, etc only weigh 25.5 kilos! That's nothing! I know I'll go shopping before I go to Sweden, but I figure that the things I throw out will probably be pretty close to equal in weight. There are a lot of 'iffy' clothes in my closet. Things I don't wear, but I'm still attached to. There are 117 entries in my clothes worksheet in excel. But I've done things like set socks into groups of 5 and combined all undies into one group as well as lumped a few sets of clothes together. (I'm not going to take only the sweater out of a matching tank top-sweater set). That includes every pair of shoes that is still in my closet as well as the pair of shoes I'd wear onto the plane.

Of my sixty kilos I have roughly 25 kilos of clothes, 20 kilos of kitchen stuff, and that leaves me 15 kilos of 'other'. I'm not sure what other will be yet. I've started going through all of the drawers and shelves in my room and deciding what things to take with me. Anything that I haven't used in a few years and feel no desire to keep is going into a box. I'm going to send it home with my mom tomorrow. My old electric razor from when I first started shaving... haven't used in years. No reason to keep, plus it won't work in Sweden most likely. My weight-lifting gloves.... When was the last time I went weightlifting? I have less than 5 kilos of 'other' so far. I'm sure I'll find more. I think I also have some clothes stored at my mom's house. I'll go through those the weekend after this. So far it looks like I'll be able to take everything that I really wanted to take and then a bit. I wonder if it's a good thing that everything I wish to take to another country on the other side of the world weighs less than 60 kilos. (that of course does not include books, which are always valuable and are being shipped separately).

Perhaps I'll post another update later tonight after I finish cleaning my apartment. It's a bit of a mess right now. I'm calling my inventory project 'cleaning' Although my room looks a bit messier after a few hours of that...