Intuitive Closet Cull Part 2: the aftermath
Introducing The Nothingburger Test
I am not going to assume we all know the term “nothingburger.” (I did some work with a partner recently and they reviewed what I wrote and corrected “there’s no ‘there’ there” thinking it was a typo. I kept it.)
Anyway, I believe Merriam Webster, but I was shocked to find that the term originated in the 50s! I also like their crisp definition: “A nothingburger is a thing that is less consequential or important than originally suspected.” The term seems to have heated up circa 2018-1019 in the context of political scandals we thought would have a huge impact — but didn’t.
But let me back up just a moment.
Reunited and it feels … not good
You might recall that I did this huge intuitive closet culling when I came back from the summer.
I did a radical, emotion-based closet cull
Sometime ago, my friend Tiia, who is probably taking a much-needed break from this space (I imagine her often in the real, touch-and-feel world in her Finland home and shop), wrote about a “chaotic culling” brought on by her desire “to see (and wear) just the good stuff in my closet
I put all those “I don’t want to wear you” things away for a little over a month. Last weekend, I started bringing the garment bags out of their storage place and going through them. Since I’d gone so long without looking or even thinking about any of them, I intended just to get rid of them. To not even look inside the bags. But of course, dear reader I did not do that.