Thursday 23 July 2015

Clothes, clothes and even more clothes!!! Part 1 - The Closet!

Yes, folks it is time to look at your clothes closet!!  If you cannot hang new clothes in the closet, if you cannot close your closet door, or even worse, if you are putting some of your clothes in the spare room closet...It is time to downsize and organize your clothes!!!

Now here is where I would like you to start. EMPTY ALL OF THE CLOTHES OUT OF YOUR CLOSET/ CLOSETS AND PUT THEM ON YOUR BED!  Now take a few minutes and enjoy them!!!..ah yes...look at all those clothes.  OK, are you ready.

deeclutter.caOrganize them into piles: dress pants, jeans, casual tops, dress tops, casual dresses, and formal dresses, etc.  OMG, can you believe how many of each type of clothes you have!

Now, pick one of those piles and start asking yourself some questions:  does it fit and when is the last time it fit?  If it doesn't fit and you have not been able to fit in it for a year - put it on the floor (this is a new pile we are starting). If it fits-when is the last time you wore it?  If you have not worn it in a year - put it in the pile on the floor.  Is it raggedy, faded, have holes,etc? - add to the pile on the floor. Is it from the 1970's through the 1990's?  Or is it just plain old ugly? You guessed it - add to the growing floor pile.  Do that for each of the piles on your bed.

Now hopefully you have smaller separated piles of clothes on your bed and a fairly large pile on the floor!  Now it is time to rehang the piles from your bed into your closet and keep them hanging together within their new categories.  You should have all dress pants together, jeans together and so on.  This makes it much easier to find what you are looking for.

I'm sure you are now looking at the pile of clothes on the floor...Well, I am going to allow you to pick 3 items from that pile that you absolutely believe you cannot live without.  As for the rest of those clothes here are the wonderful things you can do with them:

  • Donate to a shelter or transition home
  • Take to a consignment store and see if they can sell for you.
  • Donate to a charity such as Dress for Success (they give 1-2 outfits to women so they can look great for job interviews)
  • The clothes that are faded, tattered or just plain ugly...throw out!
Now take another deep breath...and look at your newly organized and downsized closet.  Yes, that's right...It's time to go shopping!!!  Lol just kidding.  If you take the time to do this about every 6 months to once a year, you should find it much easier to keep a handle on how your closet looks and how many clothes you actually need.

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