Alright, let me tell you about this thing I tried way back, must’ve been around 2007. I call it my “clothing 2007” project in my head. It wasn’t anything official, just me messing around.
The Big Idea
So, I got this idea, you know? I thought, wouldn’t it be cool if I knew exactly what clothes I had? Like, have a list, maybe pictures? This was 2007, remember, smartphones weren’t really the thing yet, not like now anyway. I figured maybe it would help me, I don’t know, stop buying the same black t-shirt over and over again. Or maybe put outfits together faster. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
Getting Started – The Mess
First thing I did was pull everything out. I mean everything. Threw it all on my bed, on the floor. My room was a disaster zone, seriously. Piles of shirts, pants, jackets, you name it. It was way more stuff than I thought I had.
Then came the ‘documentation’ part. Found my old digital camera, probably one of those early chunky ones. Started snapping pictures. The lighting in my room was terrible, so half the pictures looked kinda gloomy or washed out. And getting a good shot of a crumpled t-shirt? Harder than it looks.
Trying to Organize It
Okay, so I had a bunch of questionable photos on a memory card. Now what? I thought maybe a spreadsheet? Fired up the old computer. Made some columns:
- Item Type (shirt, pants, etc.)
- Color
- Brand (if I could remember)
- Notes (like ‘got a stain’, ‘button missing’)
Started typing things in. Took the memory card, transferred the photos. Renamed the photo files to something cryptic like ‘blue_shirt_*’. Tried to link the photo file name in the spreadsheet. It was slow. Really, really slow. Typing everything, matching photos… ugh.
Where It Fell Apart
After maybe, like, half a day? Maybe a full weekend? I just lost steam. It was way too much work. Taking photos was tedious. Typing descriptions was boring. And the whole system felt clumsy. There wasn’t some easy app back then. It was all manual grinding.
I looked at the huge pile of clothes still waiting, looked at my sad little spreadsheet with maybe 20 items in it, and just thought, “Nope. Not worth it.” The photos were bad, the descriptions were basic, and I wasn’t even sure what problem I was solving anymore.
The End Result?
So, what happened? I basically gave up. Shoved all the clothes back into the closet and drawers. Probably deleted the photos to save space on my tiny hard drive. That spreadsheet? Lost to time, definitely. Never finished it. The whole “clothing 2007” project ended up being just a weekend of making a mess and realizing some ideas are better left undone, especially with the tools I had back then. Funny how simple something like that seems now, but back in 2007, it felt like climbing a mountain.
