38 bandannas

School gave me hell this week.  No mercy.  I hit it hard and actually ended up getting everything done early. Go me!  Since I had a little extra time on my hands I decided to start cleaning.  I don’t mean the regular household chores… I mean the… I’m moving 2500 miles in 2.5 months type of cleaning.  I thought I got rid of everything I owned when I moved to California from New York.  Either I accumulated a lot more shit over the last year than I thought,  or I didn’t scale down as much as I thought I did in 2008.

For example,  I went through my bandannas.  They were not all in the same place, so I found them all, then I organized and folded them all.  When all was said and done, I counted 38 bandannas in total.  An assortment of varying colors, and patterns – some dupes, but only the very basic colors like black, white and blue.  It was a beautiful array, but I was hard pressed to figure out why anyone… let only myself, would need 38 bandannas.  I thought maybe I could sew them all together and make a poncho or or a blanket.  I think I wore bandannas a lot more when I lived in New York.   I figure they’ll come in handy one way or the other in Alaska… so I bagged them and made a mental note not to buy any more bandannas for as long as I live.  I’m covered.

I also got in depth with my wardrobe.   It serves a purpose.  It dresses me.  I’m not going to need a lot of frill where I’m headed next… and that freedom is kind of overwhelming.   I scaled back considerably.  I have a huge box of things to sell and a huge bag of things that I thought would be better donated.  I’m still not sure what I’m going to do with my 15 purses.  I feel like I need them all.  This, after selling at least ten at my last garage sale.   I’m really not that gluttonous.   It would seem that I am, but this is just accumulation over 11 years.  The only accumulation that I have left to part with.  That was just in the bedroom.   I didn’t have the energy to start sorting my books.  I still don’t know what I want to do with them.  I know it’s not practical to live the life of a perpetual traveler and have a huge book collection.  I would love to send my library back to New York along with some other things… but I know that will be costly.

I have a lot to think about.  Enjoy some photos from my walk with Stacy..