Cleaning Out the Closet
I have seen this method on a couple of blogs, and I decided to finally implement it today. I’ve been feeling that I need to cut a few items out of my wardrobe (mainly shirts), but find it hard to pick, since I already have quite a bit less clothing that most people I know.
This technique is a very sensible one that will get around a person’s tendency to recall that they’ve used an item, or in this case worn a shirt, more recently than they actually have. I’m taking a two-fold approach to this:
- I’m going to flip around all my hangers, and only flip them back when I wear the shirt.
- I will keep the clothes I wear to the right side of my closet. As I wear them, the shirts will be pulled out of the unworn side and move over (this will show me the shirts that I wear most often).
I am taking note of this date in iCal, and setting a reminder to tell me to check my closet in, let’s say, three months. All of the stuff that isn’t flipped will be removed (unless it is a seasonal item). How often do you clean our your closet?
