Stuffed linen closet benefits shelter animals

Last time I opened the doors to my linen closet, on the occasion of needing flannel sheets, I was practically buried in an avalanche of bedding and towels and wash cloths and unwearable old T-shirts Greg has kept as "souvenirs." When my now-husband and I moved in together a year and a half ago, we didn't take the time to choose which towels would become Ours and which would be donated to Goodwill or turned into rags. Now, two households' worth of seasonal bedding, guest bedding, towels old and new have been thrown haphazardly into the shelves of a quite sizable closet. Left alone, the closet's only crime is that it's too full to find anything in. But when you finally do make a selection from the stacks, the whole thing becomes a disaster. 

So it's time to make some decisions. At least this won't be a difficult process because even I, who can develop emotional attachments to the oddest of inanimate objects, have few feelings about towels. (The sheets on the other hand....) The linens that don't make the cut are going to the Young-Williams Animal Shelter, which, according to their website, can use bath towels, sheets and blankets, among other things you can find listed at their site (http://www.knoxpets.org/wishlist.asp).

With our linen closet cleaned out, I expect to feel brilliantly organized, as if all these years of reading Real Simple magazine have finally sunk in.