Day 25

We are nearing the end of the month and I hope you have a sense of accomplishment for all your hard work. Staying in our love theme, I want to talk about the love/hate relationship we have with our clothes. You may hear the same organizing advice over and over again, but for some reason, your closet remains overstuffed and doesn’t quite function. It is because it is poorly designed, right? It’s just not big enough, right? It is an old closet so it is not accustom to modern day ways of life, right? All I can say is, “yeah right”!

My favorite client expression is that they aren’t into fashion, but for some reason can’t seem to get all their clothes to fit in the closet. Whether you are Paris Hilton loving and setting fashion trends or not, you can still have a hard time parting with clothes. We all know the clothes we keep because they used to fit – anyone who has gained and lost weight knows skinny jeans are not the tight fitting jeans everyone is wearing, but the jeans we wore when we were skinny!

Why do we have such a hard time getting rid of clothes? There are the comfort clothes (old and holed sweats), the ridiculous amount of money spent clothes, the I may have an occasion to wear this again clothes and the I will loose the weight and wear these clothes again. We all have clothes in our closet we bought with intent to wear, yet never put it on. Clothes may have a sentimental attachement to them but regardless of sentimentality, we seem strangely attached to clothes.

I want you to go into your closet and take an honest look at the clothes in there. What is your reason for holding onto clothes you don’t wear. The Pareto Principe states we wear 20% of our clothes 80% of the time. I have a few friends who break this rule as it seems they wear everything in their expansive closets, but this is not the norm. What are your go to clothes? If you have clothes you don’t wear, think about why.

One reason for clothes not worn is that the closet is so stuffed you can’t see what you have. An organized closet is more than visually appealing. It will save you time and money. I am not kidding! You will find what you want to wear faster and will be dressing more efficiently. And as far as savings go, you will know what you have and learn what you like to wear. Many times people purchase a repeat of what they already own because they forgot they had it (lost in the sea of hangers and clothes).

I wrote an article for Divine Caroline on organizing your closet.  Check it out:

Bored With Your Wardrobe

And I wrote a blog post earlier on organizing your closet:

Create Your Own Shopping Boutique

Now get to it…clear out those closet for good.  Donate those clothes and feel good doing it.  Let us know how many bags you cleared out.

Do you have any tips you use for organizing your closet?  Share them here!