Well I just took an unplanned vacation from blogging didn't I?!! Not for any good reason other than I just got busy and time got away from me; also my wrists are still recovering from the carpal tunnel surgeries and I haven't really been able to craft. But I'm getting there and will start posting again!
One project that took up a lot of my time started after I read about paring down clothes. I love articles about minimizing my wardrobe (or anything) - some day I'm going to attempt a capsule wardrobe - but for now I saw something about paring down so there are less clothes to choose from, but instead of getting rid of them I could just store them out of sight and rotate them back in as needed. This was an a-ha moment for me, especially since I still like and want to wear most of my clothes, I just don't need to have them all in my face and space! You've heard of the 80/20 rule right, that we wear about 20% of our clothes regularly and the other 80% goes mostly unworn? So why do I store 80% of clothes jammed in my closet that I'm not wearing?
I love the idea of removing a lot of the clothes in my closet so I will focus more on wearing what's left. I picked out some items that I'll wear until I'm either tired of them or they wear out, and packed the rest into big clear totes that I'm storing in another closet. When I want to run out and buy something new I'll shop the totes in my house instead. Example - for real I have at least 15 pairs of jeans, but I like them all and don't want to get rid of them. So I picked one pair of skinnies, one pair of boyfriend, one pair of flairs, one pair of dark dressier ones. Now I will wear the 4 pairs in my drawer more often instead of wearing all 15 pairs once in a while and storing them all crammed in the drawer.
I haven't done my nicer hanging clothes but that's next - I don't need to get dressed up very often but I have a whole long rod full of dressier clothes. I'll pick a couple nice blouses and pants, a dress or 2, a couple skirts, a couple dressy sleeveless shirts and pack up the rest - ahhhhhh just the thought of not looking at all the clothes gives me such a contented feeling haha!! Can't wait.
Obviously this idea only works if you have a place to store a large chunk of your wardrobe - I have a guest room closet that is mostly unused so that's my solution. Also I had to make sure what I was removing from my closet to store for later were things I really wanted to wear in the future, be careful about not packing away things you don't actually like or want to keep just to get it out of the closet. Make the decision to only keep what makes you happy and you'll look forward to seeing again when it's time to rotate things back into your current wardrobe.
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Love this idea going to try it out
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