Purge Your Closet

Attention: Your clothes are stale and out of date! Get the old, moldy clothes out of your closet! Lighten your load and gain an uplifting feeling by doing a closet purge.

Please ladies love yourself enough to get up the courage and purge those old, ugly clothes that take up space and your energy just by being in the way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5 Reasons to Closet Purge:

1) Size Matters. Too big or too small a size (waiting until you are that size again) Dress for now, if it doesn’t fit it, needs to clear out!

2) Not Fitting In. Poor fit. Certain items of clothing you would wear if they didn’t pucker or if it was let out just a little. Either take them straight to a tailor, or closet purge them!

3) The Dating Game. Clothes Outdated? Purge them! If and when those particular styles come into fashion again, be assured new colors and textures will be used by current designers-guaranteed. (Did you really want to wear that style again?)

4) True Colors. It’s a bad color for you. Every time you put it on you get asked if you feel alright. Truth is you don’t and it just sits in your closet…you know what to do with it. Purge it!

5) Hated It! Just never liked it. Reason enough! Follow through and purge it from your closet. Allow someone else the chance to love it - give it to charity.

Wardrobe 101

Here are some basic organizational ideas to get your closet on the right rack… I mean track. Once you have closet purged, you need to TRY ON EVERYTHING you think you want to keep. While you try on, check to see if it really does fit you now. Is it a good wearable style for you? Is it a good color for you? (If the answer is NO, then these clothes also need to move to the give-away pile.) Now that you have tried on EVERTHING, write down items of clothing (or accessories) that you could really use to complete some of the outfits-if you only had them. Set this list aside for safe-keeping. We will use it later when we plan our shopping. It’s time to dive into the depths of your closet! Ready…set… PURGE!

• Seasoned to Taste. Pull everything out and put everything in piles by season. Decide, depending upon space, if you need plastic containers to hold out of season clothes. The object is to get clothes from winter out of your way when it is May…it makes no sense to have to scan through them daily when deciding what to wear.
  
  
• Rack ‘em Up. Organize by item. All blazers need to be on the rack together. All long sleeve blouses together, as well as short sleeves. Do the same with your pants, dress pants together, jeans…any items that are the same need to be together in the closet. Fold all short sleeve t-shirts in a pile (or in a drawer) long sleeves together. You get the picture. Use baskets (or drawers) for undies and pajamas…work a system just for you! Remember: like goes with like. See how easy this is?
  
  
• In Living Color. Now colorize, put all black together, brown, cream and so on. This will help you see what colors you have in your closet. Is it all black? Great if you are a funeral director. You might consider looking into other colors that work for you. Of course don’t overdo a good thing. Black being a minimizing color, is what every woman needs. Do you see a color pattern?

• All Together Now. Put together outfits that you have based on the existing clothes in your closet. Try some things together that you might not have thought of, now that all the purged clothes are out of your way! Get creative! Pull out some accessories, scarves, belts, earrings, a keepsake necklace that will make a unique look-your style!
  
  
• On the List. Make a list. Remember to check it twice, just like Santa. You may have some gaps in your wardrobe that need to be attended to. Maybe you could put together a really great outfit, but lack a great pair of cream pants to pull it off. Write it down.

 

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