The Clutter Fairy Weekly #94
Armor for Everyday Life: Trends in Decluttering Your Wardrobe
The rise of fast fashion, the ease of online shopping, and the popularity of retail therapy have left many of us with closets and dressers stuffed to overflowing—sometimes with clothes that we’ve never even gotten around to wearing. In episode #94 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses fresh ways to think about your personal style and offers alternative strategies to make your wardrobe manageable and fabulous.
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The Weekly Tittle is an exercise designed to focus your attention on a specific space, aspect, or challenge of decluttering and organizing your home. We assign a new tittle in each webcast/podcast, then check on your progress the following week.
Take a Fresh Look
This week’s assignment is to evaluate your wardrobe with an eye toward simplifying your day-to-day choices and freeing up space:
- Select as your focus a space where you store clothing for current use—a closet, shelf, or dresser—or a single clothing storage box or bin.
- Identify an item that no longer fits. Try it on to make sure! Unless you’re confident that it’s going to fit again very soon, toss it in the donation bag.
- Identify an item that no longer suits your style. Take a moment to appreciate how you once felt about it, then let it go.
- Identify an item that you don’t wear, but keep for sentimental reasons. Take a photograph to remember the item by. Give it to someone who will wear it, or add it to donations.
- Bonus task: Pick out three or four most-favorite items. Jot down a list of what these pieces have in common, or what you love about them. Keep the list to guide your future fashion shopping.
For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.
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I don’t toss all clothing but pass it to 2 friends to see if they can use the items first. I’m buying less. I buy at my April birthday then in Winter. Now only 1-4 pieces. It may be new underwear or tops. Jeans last firebreak, as do dress slacks. I wear a basic sheath dress that is a basic palette for dress-up events. Shoes, handbag, jewelry, scarves, accessories can be switched to make this one black dress look differently. I learned this in France.
Several friends and I are switching jewelry (like a cookie swap!) this year as holiday gifts. Fun to get new earrings and pass things along I no longer wear.
I’m downsizing. I’m 72. Fun to get rid of more clothing! Mrs Pat Schneider in Colorado