Memorial Day is a day to honor those who fight and fought to protect our country. Over the years, it has become the unofficial start of summer, marking the opening of pools and all sorts of summer spots. It has also come to be known as the biggest SALE day of the season.

Naturally, we flock to the stores and our favorite websites and buy, buy, buy. After all, you do need to switch your closet from winter to summer anyway; why not throw some new things in the mix to keep up with the fashion season? We come home, unload the car and try our very best to make it all fit. We are disillusioned by the amount of space we actually have to keep things.

So, we complain that we need more room, because that's the obvious fix. But, not everyone gets it. “I just cleaned out my closet, it was amazing!"

No. Just no.

If we had things we thought we didn't wear, don't you think we would have gotten rid of them? You know you will need that sweater on your shelf this summer miraculously one time after not wearing it for two years. You just know it.

This comes from our minor hoarding problem. We fear that as soon as we get rid of something that we don't ever use, we are going to need it. Chances are, we won't ever need it. And the truth is, if someone got rid of those pants and didn't tell me, I probably wouldn't even notice.

But, here we are, staring at our closet, new clothes in hand, nowhere to put them.

I suffer from the inability to let go, so, I enlist a nudger. Find someone who is going to push you to do that thing that you can't do on your own. If I tried to do something like this myself, it would look like three days of me sitting in front of my closet, thinking that if I sat there long enough I would magically have more room. When you lose steam, or can't even pick up any to begin with, your nudger is there to keep you on track and make sure that you achieve whatever it is you set out to do.

It's been a week and my closet still isn't done, but every day it gets closer and that's all we can hope for. Not everything happens in 10 minutes, an hour or a day, but when you push yourself, or find someone to push for you, it will happen eventually.