What's a girl to do when she moves in with a boy who only has one pint-sized closet?
a. Each get rid of some clothes and share the closet
b. Buy plastic shelves at Home Depot and put them in the front hallway
c. Refinish some gym lockers and roll your clothes into little balls like you're in middle school P.E.
We agreed immediately A wasn't going to happen. We agreed not-so-immediately B wasn't going to happen (Boy needed a lot of convincing about why this wasn't an acceptable solution). And after several weeks of tripping over each other and our clothing carpet, we agreed C was the way to go.
I found some decent lockers on Craigslist and drove 40 miles to pick them up before work one day.
Once we got them up to our fourth floor apartment, I set to scrubbing, sanding and painting them on our fire escape.
I worked well into the night, many nights, spray painting by flashlight.
Our neighbors might now have slightly diminished lung capacity, but we have a bounty of new cubbies in which to store our stuff.
