My friend T started a costume rental company. She also has been doing contract jobs for several theaters in the area doing their costumes. She is the one who got me the job of doing costumes for the theater summer camp that I mentioned before.
When a theater group that we had done volunteer work for before (forced volunteer work really as for our kids to be in the show the parents had to put in hours) closed down, my friend purchased their costume stash. To that end we had to move the costumes quickly because the lease on the storage space was ending. When we picked up the costumes we stuffed our vehicles with as much as we could carry and dumped them into T's house. (some went to B's & my houses as well)
Yesterday we went to T's house to attempt to organize the costumes and try to get her house looking more livable. We started on her son's old bedroom (he has moved out) where the majority (? okay, maybe only half) of the costumes went.
First we had to move a bunch of costumes out of the bedroom so that we could get in. We also needed to move garment racks into the room to put the costumes on. {there was also some dog negotiations going on as T's dog was sure that we had come to see her and was mad at T for hogging HER guests!} Once that was tackled we went to the task of looking at each item, determining what it was and then where it should go.
Determining where things should go became a work in progress as we would put things in a spot and then when more and more pieces of a show appeared have to move the group together.
Surprisingly we were able to work our way through the piles and get everything looking much more organized. There is even still room in the room for more...which is very good as to have garment racks for the room, T pulled costumes off the racks that were upstairs and brought the racks down. We determined that we could fit at least two more racks in the room. T is going to get her husband to install two garment bars in the room's closet for hanging short items. So we can put shirts on the top bar and pants on the bottom bar. That will free up more space on the 5 racks currently in the room. We may also decide to put certain shows into bins.
After we left T moved some of the piles of costumes she pulled off the racks upstairs downstairs.
So we are going to need at least 1 if not 2 more organizing trips there. I can probably organize the costumes that I have at my house by myself (although I can also enlist my daughter to help me.). I don't know if B is going to want our help to organize what she has. I do know that she insisted that we get everything organized so perhaps she has been working on her stash already.
Eventually we'll need to catalog the shows at least and/or the costumes so that they can all be rented. We noticed while organizing that many items were missing and know that those were rented or loaned out by the former owner and not returned to them...several things were sold or gotten rid of also. It will be frustrating recreating costumes that we have already made. sigh
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