The Closet Cleanout Plan
To kickoff the New Year, I’ve created a simple strategy for assessing, organizing and elevating your closet.
1. Decide what stays and what goes.
Create 3 distinct piles of keep, donate/sell, and repair. If you’re not sure where to start - I suggest collecting all your amazon impulse buys first as those should be an easy donate.
Go through your closet section by section, looking at each item and ask yourself when you wore it last. If you haven’t worn it in the last 6 months, it goes.
Q. What about sentimental stuff?
A: If you're only keeping something out of obligation, allow yourself to preserve the memory with a photo. Create a 'Sentimental' album in your phone to store all these items rather than taking up valuable real estate in your home. For baby items, you can store items in pretty monochrome labeled boxes like these.
2. Detox your dresser.
Remove all contents of your dresser on the bed and implement the process learned in Step 1. Take notes of clothing that needs an upgrade. Still holding onto old sports and your college boyfriends gross football sweatshirt. TOSS it.
Q: Where can I donate used clothing?
A: There are a plethora of organizations collecting gently used clothes throughout the year. Some of my favorites in Hudson County are: The Hoboken Shelter, GoodWill, York Street Project, & Dress for Success.
3. Get organized.
Now that you know what you’re keeping, delegate the drawyers and start rolling leggings, fold t-shirts into cubes, and using shoe boxes or drawer dividers, separate athletic & dress socks, sports bras & regular bras, different types of underwear, etc.
Use pretty baskets to sort accessories in your closet, and shoe boxes for those beloved heels.
Pro Tip! Create uniformity in your closet by having all the hanger’s match. Get them here >
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