After cleaning out your closet and getting rid of old styles, the excitement for new clothing begins to build. After the anger begins to fade, you try to strike up a deal with yourself by offering up other garments in exchange for keeping this one. If you already have 3 coral colored shirts, you probably don’t need another one. 5. Don’t ignore the floor. “I don’t need to throw it away…
3. Sort each piece of clothing into piles to keep, donate, sell, or throw away. On your flight, use a cube stuffed with clothing as a neck pillow. The dresser drawers that you use to store these items in are now empty and ready to be filled with shorts, bathing suits and tank tops. In the next stage, you begin to feel angry and frustrated about getting rid of clothing that you aren’t quite ready to part with.
Instead, when you look into your closet, you should feel inspired. Instead, consider acquiring smaller containers to keep some of the product in the bathroom. Just keep moving, sorting, and organizing. Unfortunately, this feeling of accomplishment that comes after clearing out and organizing your wardrobe will likely be gone within a few weeks. Your wardrobe should make heart emojis dance in your eyes and cause you to fall in love with your style over and over again.
Several years’ worth of old clothes causes your personal style to appear disorganized and in disarray. We had a whole room of things that we thought we may need someday: old clothes, way too many blankets, parts to appliances, books, unwanted toys, CD’s and DVD’s (even though we didn’t even own a DVD/CD player anymore). Often times, it doesn’t look the way you were envisioning it or how you remembered it looking.
That said, a closet purge is a perfect way to reshape your wardrobe to reflect your unique style. It’s time to tidy up Marie Kondo style! With the arrival of Spring, it is the perfect time to clean out the clothing that you once loved, but no longer leaves the hanger. I did the hanger trick starting last summer, and have found that I really do wear almost everything in my closet.
Below I listed most of the items you have in your closet to determine which items should be hung and which one should be folded. For work clothes, hang them on one end. As a rule of thumb, you should hang clothes that crease easily. Hang items in your closet with like-colors together. Cleaning out your closet is something that should be done once per year as a minimum and recommended after each season throughout the year.
There is always going to be a new sale going on or a new trend that you are dying to try each season. If you have a tiny feeling of doubt in the back of your mind, you’re most likely not going to wear it again. Once you realize that you’re likely getting rid of it, you begin to reflect back on when you bought it, what you wore it to, and how many years you have had it.
“Why doesn’t it fit anymore; I just bought it recently? 14 inches is the standard shelf depth, but custom shelves can be cut to any depth needed that will fit your space. If the closet is at least 24 inches deep, you can arrange the hanging areas against the back wall of the closet in front of the doors and use the return for shelving.
If you procrastinate, over time, you’ll end up buying more and more items that will continue to pile up until you’re drowning in last year’s fads and your closet looks like outdated issues of Vogue. It will be more about the unknown. Think about how it can help someone else and all the memories the next person will create when wearing it. It will help you avoid purchasing impulse items that are likely to sit in the closet, untouched, only to be thrown out next year.
It is a vicious circle that happens year after year because there is always room for more clothes, jewelry, shoes, and accessories. Start the year off fresh and fashionably by eliminating items in your closet that you haven’t worn in months… After the three month waiting period has passed, this technique will force you to consider what you truly need in your closet.
2. Only allow yourself to buy 1-2 new pieces per month. Here are some tips to keep your closet decluttered month after month and save yourself some agony the next time spring cleaning rolls around. This is known as the 5 stage of grief from cleaning out your closet. Here’s the thing: you can get overwhelmed by cleaning and decluttering because you need to make too many decisions. In the first stage, you’re cleaning out your closet when you come across a garment you haven’t worn in years.
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