I am getting rid of everything I own.  That fact has been paralyzing to me. Well, not everything, a girl can’t part with her gear…one has to have priorities.  But I am trying to take everything else I have an reduce it to 1 bag of clothes and a bike. This is made harder by training for a summit of Kilimanjaro, that in itself takes a bag a clothes.

While I was going through a closet tonight, I realized how many coats I have.  But the shocking part was how many of them that I haven’t worn in the past 2-3 years.  So why do I still have them?  There are people I see on the street in the winter who are in coats not nearly as warm as these are, yet I am hoarding them in my closet.  Why?  And I would bet that most of you have at least one coat like that too.  So why don’t we have a National Coat Night?  One night where we all take 30 minutes and go through our closets and get all the coats we haven’t worn in 2-3 years and donate them. Then they could either go to citizens of this country who are down or their luck or people from other countries who are not so well off as this one. Everyone deserves to be warm.

Just be sure to check the pockets. I found that I have an affinity for chapstick.  There was  some in at least half of the jackets I have.