Closets are areas of infinite possibility. Closets can be rearranged, re-configured, or re-designated depending on what you need to use it for. You can organize your closets any way that suits your specific needs. The following five tips are to help you weed out the things you no longer want or need and to develop the habit of only keeping the things you use or love.
1. Sort Through One Bar of Your Hanging Clothes
Begin at one end of the hanging clothes bar and look at each item individually. Decide if it fits you and whether you love wearing it. If it doesn’t fit right now, I highly recommend giving it away. Once you are at that particular size again, you deserve new clothes. If you just can’t part with your old pair of jeans yet, consider putting them in a box. If you haven’t gone into the box in three months, give everything in the box away because now you realize that you never really missed those clothes anyway. If there are clothes that you don’t like the color, feel, or fit of, give those away too. You don’t have to keep the Christmas sweater your grandmother gave you just to wear next Christmas. Give that sweater away; put it in your donation bag immediately. Only keep the beautiful clothes you love to wear. Enjoy your clothes!
2. Select Five Articles of Clothing You Haven’t Worn Recently
Let’s face it: most of us have clothes that we haven’t worn in a long time. In ten minutes, you can try on at least five articles of clothing and decide whether you want to keep each one or give it away. I highly recommend that if you decide to keep something, even though you haven’t worn it in a long time, that you put it closer to the front of your closet where you can easily see it. Being reminded of some of our lesser-worn clothing can actually be a fun way to bring it back into wardrobe circulation.
3. Rotate Your Seasonal Clothes
Depending on the climate you live in, rotating your clothes in the spring and fall adds more storage space and more variety to your everyday wardrobe. It is pretty unlikely that you need to have access to both shorts and wool sweaters at the same time. Decide what can be put away for a few months to allow more space for the clothes you want to wear right now. Store your wool sweaters, turtlenecks, hats, and gloves together for use when you need them.
Plastic storage bins with lids that snap shut prevent moths, moisture, and rodents from getting in and eating your clothes. 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. You can actually use the same storage bins all year round and just rotate what is stored in them.
