When It’s Time for a Change, Downsize and Declutter Your Wardrobe

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.

Streamline Your Wardrobe

This week’s assignment is to evaluate your wardrobe with an view toward freeing up space and streamlining your day-to-day choices:

• 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.