This is Optimal Living Daily, Life Lessons from a Closet Door by Angelina Lee of ExploringplanB.com,

and I'm Justa Mollick, and we're going to get right to it and continue optimizing your life.

Life Lessons from a Closet Door by Angelina Lee of Exploring Plan B.com

An unexpected result of staying home for the last few months has been the growing list of minor repairs to be done around the house.

While each item on the list is negligible on its own, all of the items together demonstrate a comprehensive account

of reasonable wear and tear, none particularly noticeable, all glaringly obvious the longer we stay

indoors. The item at the top of our list was the replacement of the bifold closet doors

that separate our laundry facilities from the kitchen. While not a difficult venture in

theory, the opening of the closet in relation to a tall kitchen cupboard made the details a little

tricky. It's for this very reason that the original closet doors, which came with the house when we

first moved in, remain broken for so long and stayed wide open, making the space look and feel cluttered.

For years, we rationalize what we would do to affect the repairs.

The opening of the closet was a set width,

and so each pair of the bifold closet doors had to be a certain width in order to fit.

Easy enough.

But then we had to factor in the kitchen cupboard.

There was no way that a door of the

required width could happily coexist with a kitchen cupboard, which is why the original doors

fell into disrepair in the first place. And so our focus shifted to the kitchen cupboard itself.

We couldn't move it because there was nowhere else we could put it. We couldn't decrease its

width because that would render it impract it. We couldn't decrease its width because

that would render it impractical. We couldn't get rid of it altogether because it provided crucial

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