Lori Borgman: Bigger house and fewer kids don't mean more closet space
Published in Lifestyles
We began married life in a 1930s Craftsman bungalow with three small bedrooms. Each bedroom had a closet the size of a telephone booth. Everything fit.
We added a baby to the mix. Everything fit.
We added a second and third baby. Everything fit.
Today, we live in a four-bedroom house with double-wide closets in every bedroom and a small walk-in closet in the master bedroom.
The three babies grew up and left home years ago. It is just the two of us.
Nothing fits.
Something is wrong with the math. We decreased the number of people in the house, increased the amount of available closet space, but are out of room.
Critical thinking and analysis are required every time we switch out cold-weather clothes for warm-weather clothes and vice versa in the semi-annual Changing of the Closets.
No article of clothing escapes rigorous scrutiny.
Take the black velvet jacket with a tucked waist and shoulder pads. I last wore it when Bush was president -- 41 not 43. Does this fit me anymore? It might if I could stop breathing. Are NFL-size shoulder pads in style? They might be tomorrow. The jacket stays.
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