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I spent Saturday morning sifting through my closet, creating seasonal and Goodwill piles. After about three hours, I had the closet reorganized, with clothing for all seasons put away, which was quite the coup for me, I usually have to do a summer/winter split with the current season’s clothing in the closet and the inactive season’s clothing in a suitcase in my parents’ basement. I also managed two sizeable piles for Goodwill, all decent stuff, some of it barely worn. I used to have a fairly short attention span when it came to clothing and this coupled with very little purging meant that I had amassed a haphazard array of apparel sufficient to outit a family of four. But I have become a lot more discplined over the past few years, and tend to regard clothing as no more than a basic necessity, one that is required to be functional, much like breakfast. With the annual closet purge and reorg well into its fifth year, I now have a manageable core collection of gear that should last me a few years. So after three hours of work, it felt like I accomplished a task I began years ago.