Up until probably the end of college, I was the queen of t-shirts. It's been a few years since then, but I've still managed to hold on to enough t-shirts to merit two dresser drawers. Most of my t-shirts have some kind of history or sentimental value. The green shirt at the left was my elementary fieldtrip shirt in 6th grade, and the Landrieu shirt was given to me by a former student. The black and yellow shirt to the right was bought during my "I love batman" phase, and I got the "Wie Geht's Dir Heute?" shirt at a German language camp in high school. But my favorite shirt of all time is the one smack in the middle. My stand-in godmother, Becky, gave it to me when I was a kid, and I wore it so much that it's basically see-through now. I hate to let it go, but what good does it do me at the bottom of a dresser drawer? So, to Goodwill it goes.
When my friends and I had a recent discussion about our Lenten sacrifices, one friend told us about a woman who had given up one thing each day for all 40 days of Lent. The more I thought about it, the more I wanted to do what this woman had done. This blog will document my daily purging. Sometimes it will be just one thing, other times a group of similar things. But every day, there will be one less thing sitting in my house and one more thing in the hands of someone who needs or wants it.
-'Empty Room, No Regrets,' Sloane Crosley
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Day 7: T-Shirts
Up until probably the end of college, I was the queen of t-shirts. It's been a few years since then, but I've still managed to hold on to enough t-shirts to merit two dresser drawers. Most of my t-shirts have some kind of history or sentimental value. The green shirt at the left was my elementary fieldtrip shirt in 6th grade, and the Landrieu shirt was given to me by a former student. The black and yellow shirt to the right was bought during my "I love batman" phase, and I got the "Wie Geht's Dir Heute?" shirt at a German language camp in high school. But my favorite shirt of all time is the one smack in the middle. My stand-in godmother, Becky, gave it to me when I was a kid, and I wore it so much that it's basically see-through now. I hate to let it go, but what good does it do me at the bottom of a dresser drawer? So, to Goodwill it goes.
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