Pity Party/New Lease On Life

I hate to admit it. I mean I am an adult. I am 32 years old. I am a professional. I am a wife. I am a mother. I pay my bills and clean my house. BUT I miss my parents.
They just came to visit. It's always crazy while they are here. You know, try to fit everything in, feel like your running out of time even the day they get here. And then they leave.
EVERY time I go into a funk when they are gone. I honestly just realized it this time. I am lazy, not a very good wife, short with the kids. I couldn't figure out what was going on. Then it hit me, I am sad my parents live far away and I miss them. And I want my kids to grow up with them. I feel like it's getting too late.
I shouldn't take it out on anybody else. But I do.
They leave and I pick apart my life. Everything that isn't how I want it. The main thing not living near them. Then I go into crazy mode and start coming up with ways to get there.
Trust me they have ranged from starting an Alpaca Farm to making an Adventure Camp for Kids. (I don't have the means for either of those.)
I usually realize that moving to Tennessee is an actual possibility, just not yet, and I move on.
I move on to trying to fix what I can.

So this time that means closet organization and starting a budget to save money for our big move!

I'll start easy. Closet organization.
I loathe putting laundry away. Part of the reason is our master closet is not as big as I would like it so everything just gets squished in there wherever it can find a place. So I dread putting the laundry away and just squishing in more. But I am not all that good at parting ways with my old clothes, and honestly the hubs is even worse!
So I found a pin on pinterest, NOW I CAN'T FIND IT! Don't you hate that? So I am in no way taking credit for the idea, anonymous genius out there---THANKS!
You take all of the clothes in your closets and turn the hangers around backwards. Every single item you take off the bar, turn the hanger around, and hook it on from the back. Probably best to do this at the very beginning of a season. As you wear the clothes and wash them you hang them back up with the hanger facing the right way, so hooking from the front. At the end of the season anything that is left hooked backwards gets thrown out or donated. Or heck, save it for a garage sale! The only things that get free passes are special occasion outfits, suits, formal dresses, jerseys, etc.

Here is a pic of my newly still squishy but organized backwards closet!

It feels so much better! Since I did it middle of season I will probably not do a clean out until after winter and do summer next year. Just an excuse to keep hanging on maybe? :)