Welcome to the 30-Day Organize-athon!
In today’s 5 minutes we’re going to express-clear the hanging part of your closet.
Take a deep breath as you imagine inhaling a sense of clarity, freedom and order, and off we go!
Day 2: Clear Out Your Hanging Closet
Step 1: Grab a large garbage bag.
Step 2: Open up the hanging part of your closet and, quickly scanning your clothes from left to right, toss into the bag anything that:
- Doesn’t fit
- Feels scratchy or unpleasant against your skin
- Is in a shape that doesn’t suit you
- Is in a color that doesn’t suit you
- Has a neckline or hem length that doesn’t suit you
- Has negative memories or associations
- Is tatty
- Has been worn too many times
- Is tragically out of fashion
- Is not your style any more
- Makes you feel uncomfortable or unhappy
- Hasn’t been worn in the past 12 months.
Step 3: Do a second scan, left to right, for anything that needs repair, alteration or laundering. If you know you’ll never get around to the repair, alteration or dry cleaning, then pop these items straight into your first bag. Otherwise, put them aside for later attention.
Step 4: Put your bag by the door or take it straight out to the car. (Take it to the charity store or tip as soon as you can. Really good stuff should go to charity, but let junk go.)
And you’re done!
Got an Extra 5 Minutes?
- Notice what’s still in your closet – the styles, colors and shapes that suit you – and make a note to buy more if you need them.
- Notice what you’ve decided to ditch – the styles, colors and shapes that don’t work for you – and make a What Not To Wear list to avoid future fashion faux pas.
- Tidy your clothes and straighten your hangers.
Now aren’t you looking forward to getting dressed?
The 30-Day Organize-athon Mantra
Move fast. Don’t overthink. Let it go!
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See you back here tomorrow!
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Great way to go through my closet!
Two days down, twenty-eight to go!
Great way to eliminate winter things that I won”t wear next year as I switch from winter to spring and summer clothes.
I am most definitely NOT a clothes person, so I don’t have a whole lot to start with, but having been in maternity clothes for the past few months, this was a good excuse for me to sort through my non-maternity clothes. Despite not having a whole lot of clothes, it never fails that I manage to find a few things that I don’t wear anymore. Think I’ll turn the old stuff into cloth diapers.
Yeah! It felt good to get rid of two garbage bags full and drop them off at Goodwill:)
done
Did this not too long ago but faced the closet again and found more stuff that has lived there long enough. Bye-bye!
Thanks for the incentive to get started on my closet. Still more work to do, but at least I have started. Sometimes I wish I had a walk in closet…I have to store my Christmas tree in my closet.
Done! Off to do the kids and hubby’s as well 😀
Thanks for giving permission to only do the hanging part…didn’t seem quite so overwhelming. Lots of empty hangers…kinda scary and exhilerating at the same time! So many things that didn’t fit or were so not my style anymore…Maybe a little clothes shopping tomorrow?
Done! And hey, there’s another Audra on the challenge, neat!
Fun to do… but now I have to go shopping 😉 I had a lot of clothes that I did not wear since I do not remember when!!! 😉
I just did this a few weeks ago when I hung up my “regular” clothes (had a baby 3 months ago). So…DONE!
Second day accomplished! Big bags to take to the thrift store from yesterday and today ~ it is going to be a good donation year!
Done. My daughter went through her closet too!
Just finished my last closet. Six closets total. Eight bags loaded in car for delivery to goodwill Monday morning.
Took me a while, I was still tired from organizing and tossing yesterday.
It was a good tired though.
done!
Woo hoo – that looks really good.
Got rid of some I never wear…even though they are practically new. But if I don’t like them I must purge. Day 2 done…feeling better already. Bring on the next task.
Done!