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so i either packed or gave away most of my clothes in the process of getting the house ready to sell and i discovered some really cool consequences of that today. I noticed a couple of days ago that i was just about of underpants and socks. i ran completely out of white socks and not quite out of work socks.. and all my white under shirts are dirty.. anyway.. i am leaving for spokane tomorrow so i had to pack, which means i had to do laundry, and so i had to dig around in the dirty clothes pile (which is not big by our standards of a big urgent pile of laundry)...

so anyway.. i dug around and found my clothes and discovered that i had only about two medium loads of clothes to wash in order to have my underclothes refreshed completely plus two pairs of work pants and a couple of work shirts.. so what's so cool about it is now we won't have all the backed up laundry pile that we used to and i'll be able to tell it's time to do laundry because i'm out of clothes by the end of the week. if it were work i'd say i reduced my work in process or WIP, and i would mention that it reduces the lead time between when i run out of clothes (which is good because if i don't run out of clothes i don't do laundry).. anyway.. it's good. i can put two medium loads of laundry away.. way more laundry would be a pain to put away.. anyway.. less stuff is good. i'm goin gto remember this when we move.