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I really struggled with letting go of my clothes, project I tried to pare things down a bit so I wouldn’t have to store as much. I felt that I liked lots of what I owned and I didn’t want to send any of it out the door, like my reader. All of these feelings led to a complicated sort of emotional soup that paralyzed me from taking action. On p of quite a bit of you who are still struggling to downsize your packed closets, Hopefully, some amount of what I’ve learned can help the reader who posed the question. This is the case. In the ensuing year, I’ve beenI was able to reduce my size wardrobe by one half.
I need to mention the proverbial elephant in the room, before I move into my tips for paring things down.
I’ve decided to limit my 2014 closet additions to 38, which will help me in my wardrobe reduction efforts. Fact, you’ll find it much easier to reduce your overall wardrobe size, if you bring less in. Make sure you scratch a comment about it. They won’t do much good if you bring an overabundance of new pieces into your closet, while there are the majority of downsizing tips which can help. Fact, I would be in a whole lot better place day had I curtailed my shopping to a larger degree than I did, while I made lots of progress in paring my wardrobe down last year. The best tip I can provide is to dramatically reduce your shopping.
Set a monthly or yearly target that’s a stretch for you but that still feels doable. Win, win! People and situations change and our wardrobes need to adjust accordingly, in some instances, we may have really liked certain wardrobe pieces in the past. The next point I’d like to mention relates to the difference between liking things in theory versus liking them in practice. Having an one in, oneout policy is also extremely helpful looking at the stopping the bleeding. I’m sure it sounds familiar.|Doesn’t it sound familiar?|Sounds familiar?|doesn’t it? These limits will assist you in being more mindful about your shopping and will push you to carefully consider both what you buy and what you keep. Seriously. We don’t feel as warmly ward them once we have them on our bodies, we often like garments or shoes when we see them on a hanger or shelf.
Flashback and Flash Forward…
My first recommendation is to try it on, if you haven’t worn a particularly garment in a while.
Now let me ask you something. Did you forgot about it because it was buried in your deep recesses packed closet? Make a commitment to get this garment into your regular wardrobe rotation if it’s something you truly love. Quickly rate the garment on a scale of one to ten in regards to fit, comfort, and style. Consequently, look in the mirror and do the first impression test, once it’s on your body. Just consider whether or not you like the garment day in the here and now. Don’t take plenty of time to ruminate on how much something cost or who gave it to you. Ask yourself why you aren’t wearing it, if you rate an item at a level 8” or higher. Place it front and center and challenge yourself to wear it within the next week, if so.
One reason why you should wear items you think you love as soon as possible is that you might not really love them once you wear them for an entire day. There’s really little reason to hang on to it, if not. Then again, some garments look great while we’re standing still but bunch, slip, and bind when we more around. It’s going to collect dust in your closet instead of making it out on the town, if something is so fussy that it annoys you while you’re wearing it. Basically, no need to hang them back up in my closet, as I know I’m not going to wear them! Anyways, it will just muddy the waters in your closet and obscure the pieces you actually have the occasion to wear for your current lifestyle. Of course can you foresee wearing it at any time within the next year, if that’s the case. I’m sure it sounds familiar.|Doesn’t it sound familiar?|Sounds familiar?|does it not? are you not wearing it because it doesn’t fit your current lifestyle, if a garment in question isn’twas notwas not fussy.
Step One -Stop the Bleeding
The objection that generally arises right around this time relates to money. Hanging on to such pieces only serves to perpetuate guilt, which does you little good. Well, I have news for you. Consequently, you hold on to it because it cost plenty of money, perhaps an item doesn’t suit your current lifestyle or even your present style aesthetic. Keeping an unworn item in your closet won’t bring back your lost dollars.
Now a certain amount you are probably thinking you should keep a lot of things you’re not wearing just in case you might need them one day.
Is that the message you want to be sending to your subconscious mind? Quite a bit of the items you keep end up gathering dust for years until you finally feel it’s safe to let them go. This is a regular thought pattern that occurs when we consider getting rid of things. Are you telling yourself that you don’t trust yourself to keep the weight off? Think about what you’re doing to your psyche, if we’re talking about a wide range of sizes or the fat clothes you’re holding on to should you regain lost pounds. Chances are it’s very, very few. For instance, sometimes we hang on to garments that are either o small or o large because we think our weight might change such that we’ll end up wearing these pieces again. Just think for a moment. Keeping a box of garments in alternate sizes makes sense, if you regularly go up or down a size or two. You ought to be honest with yourself, it can make sense to keep some clothing in weight event fluctuations. Therefore, think about it… Just how lots of those just in case items do you ever end up needing? You see, one special circumstance relates to weight issues.
You have to consider if you even like the skinny clothes you’re keeping around. When we have o the majority of items same types and make an effort to wear all of them, it results in a phenomenon called splitting our wears. Be honest with yourself and only keep the clothes you’d want to wear if they fit you today. We tell ourselves we’re going to wear them, maybe we don’t really wear the other eight pairs. For example, you can fill in the gaps with some new pieces that you can’t wait to wear, if you do end up losing your excess pounds. In such instances, we only wear our favorites once in a while because we force ourselves to wear our less fab items out of guilt or obligation. Since we have ten pairs, we feel we must wear all of them, deep down. As an example. Perhaps they’re for ageser suit your personal style. It is remove everything else. On p of that, in either case, we don’t feel free and happy to wear those items in our wardrobes that we truly love.
You Like It, Do You Wear It?
Try this, if you don’t feel ready to remove your less than stellar wardrobe duplicates.
Chances are the answer is no. Certainly, see if you get the urge to pull any of these items out to wear them. Now let me tell you something. Letting go of their lesser cousins will help you to get more joy out of your closet favorites. For instance, move those pieces to another closet or into boxes and bags for the next three months. Would you miss them if they were out of your life completely, if you don’t miss the items in question over a period of months. Usually, get the less than pieces out of your main closet so you can focus your attention where it should be, on the clothes you actually love and wear. Go ahead, if you ought to hold the second best items in a sort of clothing purgatory for a period of time. Free yourself up to wear your favorite clothes as often as you want without guilt.
At this beginning post, I mentioned Project I’m coming back to that pic now because I believe taking on that challenge was instrumental in helping me to pare down my wardrobe. Create your own challenge, if you’re not ready or willing to take on something as drastic as Project 333. As the challenge three months went by, I found myself going through my stored clothing and letting go of items bit by bit. Sometimes just selecting the items you would pick for Project 333 is enough to get you thinking about which pieces you really love in your closet. Make sure you drop a few comments about it. It helped me to see that I really don’t need as many clothes as I thought I did and I can get by with far less. Perhaps you’d consider dressing with 50 or 75 items instead of a mere You can create whatever scenario feels right for you. Maybe you’ll be ready to let go of most of the things that don’t make the cut. Furthermore, you don’t even have to do the challenge.
Why Aren’t You Wearing It?
I want to offer one more suggestion, before I sign off for today. Pretend that you only have the time and space to gather up half of your clothing within that timeframe. Your answers can lead you ward identifying the wardrobe pieces that you really love. Normally, imagine that there’s a fire or other natural disaster and you’ve been ld to evacuate your home within 60 minutes. Which would you leave behind? Which items would you take? Eventually, what should it be like to release your other half wardrobe? It’s a well I believe it’s a helpful exercise, it can be a bit unseemly to consider.
Among the readers of Recovering Shopaholic, Terra Trevor, had been through evacuating process her home several times, as she lives in an area with a high fire risk.
She wrote about her experiences with evacuation and what it taught her in this powerful and insightful blog post. There’s no ideal wardrobe size, as I’ve mentioned in previous posts. We definitely should try a few of my suggestions to see if they help, if you think you like all or dozens of what you own but still want to pare things down. Who am I to judge, if you have a full closet and it’s working well for you. Perhaps the the majority of us can learn from Terra’s experiences and consciously decide to live with less moving forward. That said, we all have to determine clothes numbers, shoes, and accessories that work best for us. Remember, I hope you’ll decide to try at least one of my ideas, in case you’d like to unburden yourself of a certain amount your closet clutter.
Please share them with me and your fellow readers, if you have ideas that were not mentioned in this post. Would this shirt ever be my first choice or will I always choose something else instead, if I’m attempting to decide if I should keep an item or not in my opinion. To leave a comment, if you’re reading this post in email or via feed reader. Basically, we can learn a great deal from each other! Fact, if the item is never a first choice it gets donated or consigned. Please do share, there is a wealth of knowledge in this group! Thank you again for your honesty about your own experiences. Suggestions Because I received from a bit of you, I’m now much happier with the way my closet is organized. Then again, as always your posts are very helpful and very insightful.
It Was Expensive…
Great question to ask, Leah!
LOTS more useful tips to add to the ones I gave! Last year I challenged myself to wear all of my clothes. This made it really easy to eliminate stuff because I was usually so frustrated by whatever it was that I was wearing that I was glad to see it go! This was a helpful strategy for me because when I do the first impression test I often default to keep it, and it can be difficult for me to see what’s fussy/uncomfortable/unflattering about a garment just from wearing it for a few seconds. You should take it into account. Anything that I didn’t want to wear for a full day went straight to the donation bag.
Well, I Might Need for a while the what lines would you save in a fire thought experiment you could do a pretend you are moving abroad exercise and imagine that you can only take a certain volume/number of suitcases full of clothing what would you pack? An observation in my opinion the usual narrative about splitting your wears or having duplicate items says that we tend to have one favorite and ignore the other similar items. As a result, lately I suspect that when I have duplicates I am having trouble getting rid, it’s because none of the items in a category are quite right.
Sarah and Emmy, you both raised excellent points. That’s how I got 9 blackish skirts, as I kept searching for a blackish skirt that would truly meet my needs. Emmy, your point about only living once is really good. I usually aim for 8”s or higher, sometimes we can find them.
Love the Rings Lord reference… The multiples of imperfect things phenomenon affects lots of us.
Good to release myself, good to realise what I did want and need and good let go. It takes patience to wait for what will truly work for us -and ‘self trust’, o -but that will serve us incomparably better after all. Now pay attention please. Then I realised that I had had the Eureka moment, only one way to go was up. Now regarding the aforementioned fact. That’s how I felt the first time I did the BIG purge. Still working on that one… Don’t be depressed.
Stop Splitting Your Wears
Congrats to both of you for doing big purges. If that still feels o scary try for 2 things. Once they are gone look for 2 more. I get depressed, too, if I reckon o much about the money I’ve wasted. That’s where it starts getting interestingserious. I read your blog and I can see that you’ve come SO far. Besides, that’s what I’m doing best in order to do. Maybe your goal is to reduce your wardrobe by 50 percent. You didn’t bring them in all at once so why should you expect to let them go all at once. This is the case. Once you get started it does get easier. A well-known fact that is. Try to look ahead instead of backwards. I try to remember my progress and trust in the fact that I won’t repeat the many mistakes I made in the past. Furthermore, this can feel so overwhelming that you never get started. I get the depression piece also, several thousand items is very impressive.
Excellent suggestion.
I’ll have a powerful motivator to get back to my current size or rebuy, if I gain weight. Beginner for me was letting go of the ‘easy’ ‘stuffthings’ I didn’t like, never wore, and grossly didn’t fit. Nevertheless, a HUGE amount of progress had been made, before you know it. Big changes can happen a little bit at a time. Notice that every point here is something that has helped me do the same thing. Advanced was letting duplicate go items and only keeping the favorites, letting go of things that I really liked but were ‘fussy’, felt ‘off’, or didn’t work well for me for whatever reason. That’s where it starts getting interesting. It ok many, many steps to get it to a manageable size. Remember, it’s easier to set smaller targets and move forward from there, like you said. Intermediate was letting go of things I ‘liked’ but didn’t fit or look good on me. Notice that that’s how it’s worked for me and the changes are more lasting as a result. My newest next step is figuring out what my ideal SIZE wardrobe for me should be. You should take this seriously. Like ‘beginner, in my experience, I started out in steps, intermediate, advanced, expert’. Generally, I’ll rebuy, if I lose weight.
Or two years, progress is progress and should be celebrated, if you take two months.
Keeping for a while will just keep you feeling bad let someone else who needs it have it! My only ‘advice stop’ beating yourself up over wasted money. Charity is a wonderful ‘thing you”ll feel better, and while you can’t recoup your lost money, you CAN learn from it! Also, debbie and other readers with similar experiences as inspiration! That is interesting for-phrasepronounpronounmainverbmainverbpronounpronounverb80 on just one if I love it and it fits me perfectly.
What Tonya wrote about buying fewer but higher quality pieces has helped me, too, I still get bored of a certain amount my clothes quickly.
Just make one change at a time and you’ll eventually get to where you want to be! I end up liking and wearing it more, if I buy what I really want instead of several lesser facsimiles. Baby steps get us there. Perhaps you can inventory one section at a time. Now please pay attention. I had already been working on my recovery for over two years at that point, I did it at my beginning blog. It ok me quite a while to do an intentory. That might be less overwhelming. Nonetheless, you’ll do it when you’re ready, as for your closet inventory. Now let me tell you something. Case in point, the AGL flats I got in December.
Really feel like I’ve gotten it down to a point that I like all the items that are left, thanks for all of your great posts I am also making an attempt to reduce my wardrobe.
We’ll see! One is in my closet and one is boxed up. There are still o many and a bunch of them fall into the duplicates category. That said, so… this will probably sound a bit crazy… I divided my wardrobe into two. Then when I’m feeling like I really want to shop for something new, the idea is that I will switch out my wardrobe -pack up my whole closet and unpack the boxed up half of my clothes. So, two wardrobes that in theory I like equally. Far I’ve definitely done better with shopping less.
This is SUCH a great suggestion, TJ! In fact, I called another commenter’s attention to it in my response to her. Needless to say, half Project. Considering the above said. Even as I have stopped compulsively buying things, I still been doing best in order to reduce clothing number items I own. I may revisit the Half Project for ages as I still want to pare things down. Then I was challenged to do Project 333 and went that route instead. Congrats on being creative and shopping your closet stores instead!
My current lifestyle means I need to maintain business, evening, casual, and gym wardrobes, which complicates things.
My work clothes in the bedroom closet, my casual clothes in my dresser, my workout clothes in the bathroom closet, and my evening clothes in the hall closet. You’re basically doing capsule wardrobes for your various areas life. Just keep reading. That way I’m not looking at cocktail dresses when I’m striving to get out the door to work, and I’m able to limit each ‘mini wardrobe’ to the essentials. It seems you’ve come up with a really workable solution for yourself. Thanks for sharing your organizational method with all of us!
Thanks very much for sharing your very helpful tips, Sarah! You’re right that Rome wasn’t built in a day and that it takes time to pare down an oversized wardrobe. As a result, boots low heeled footwear would get more wear too. Known hi, Some good pointers on this site. Oftentimes whenever considering age, modesty may apply the older a person is, shrugs to cover the shoulders for warmth. We all need to proceed at our own pace. Nevertheless, there would be more knitwear than summer attire too, plus coats jackets. Having said that, maybe owning one party dress high heels with matching bag ………?
These are some very good points.
It’s true that there are lots of it depends situations wheneverit gets to what we need in our closets. While having selfawareness is an important key, not simply in regards to paring down, also whenever it boils down to shopping. Of course knowing ourselves and our lifestyles can save us a bunch of trouble wheneverit gets to our wardrobes. Of course hi Debbie! Actually, I believe this makes your blog even more valueable.
My closet is packed with clothes, that I do not wear. Would I spend money on it again? It’s easier for me to let go of it, if not. If I bought it at that moment, what came to my mind reading this post and the comments is, that I often ask myself when I look into the mirror making an attempt to evaluate if I should keep or ss the garment. However, life is o short and we should not waste our time maintaining things we don’t need. I’m also learning and purge from time to time. Considering the above said. Lately, I purged lots of ps which are o short and ride up while I’m sitting in the office.
We should turn our bedroom into a changing room and shop our wardrobe!
Very good point, Joanna! That said, your question can help increase clarity, for sure. It would make purging a lot easier. Then, we sometimes for awhile because it was either expensive or cheap. So, I also re think if I really need to replace it or if I can live without it, when I have something outworn.
Emmy posed and I ask myself similar things. For me wanting thought to own less clothing and to have only what I loved and needed came first. The answer I get is NO. Actually, I had no idea how to do it. While letting go of what I wasn’t wearing, this was years before Courtney published Project I have always edited my closet right after any season. It often becomes much easier to make decisions, when we’re honest with ourselves. If you have the desire to have less clothes it means you can and were meant to do it, otherwise you wouldn’t have the desire. As a result, it was a thought that kept returning over a period of years until one day I knew for certain that it was a goal I wanted to obtain. It’s a well I still had o many clothes, and getting dressed was stressful. It’s OK to take your time. To speak, the handwriting is on the wall. After I read about Project 333 I needed more time to think about doing it.
Any time we been evacuated I have brought an odd assortment of clothing that don’t go gether and are not wearable together, as an aside. Case in point is the funny outfit I had to wear to my grandfather’s funeral, which ok place while we were evacuated once. Besides, we have a family tradition of bringing laughter and good memories to our funerals. I’ve had to wear them anyway. Within the gloom and sadness my family and I also laughed a lot about my attire. If I’m packing for a vacation trip, very good things I’ve learned from your blog Debbie. And from doing many cycles of roject 333, is that now much of my wardrobe mixes and coordinates well together, or packing up to leave for a less good reason such as fire, chances are at least I will have pants or a skirt and p that go together.
As I loved it and knew others would, terra too. We need to be ready to make the next step. Even more so when you want to maintain a more minimalist closet, It’s always an important consideration. We’re all on our own path and there is no right interval it should take. Perhaps your attire brought some much needed levity to a somber occasion… In any event, I’m glad your wardrobe coordinates better these days. It is you’re right that it’s okay to do it in baby steps. I’m sure you heard about this. It ok me over a year to do Project 333 and I haven’t made it a way of life like some people.
I enjoy having a bunch of choice.
Now when I shop, I know that if I stick to my accent or neutral colors, I have what I need in place to make an outfit that goes with my new purchase. Anything that didn’t fall into one of these categories left. One thing that was so helpful was that as I purged I also added practical pieces to my wardrobe that allowed what was left to work together. Although, maybe that is my next step. Essentially, one issue that helped me was to decide what colors I wanted to have in my wardrobe. Adding blackish, light grey and coffee colored jeans, for awhile sleeve tees in my favorite accent colors and blackish, light grey and saddle colored short boots created a wardrobe that really started to work for me this past fall and winter.
In the past I did a bunch of impulsive shopping where I bought things that really appealed to me and hereupon I would peter out on finding follow through the workhorses to make my favorite new purchases usable. In my current wardrobe there is always an appropriate shoe and handbag choice. You see, current assignment I am going to apply what I learned to my summer wardrobe.
One thing that I am realizing is that this is always a process.
The purging is an ongoing thing. With that said, you’re right that the purging never really ends. It is constant and takes a vigilant eye and a ruthless attitude to regularly review the closet for ageser serving you well. Oftentimes I’ve actually enjoyed the process and find that it is such a pleasure to get dressed now or to pack for travel, It’s all taken loads of thought and effort. I’m sure you heard about this. There will always be a need to bring a few pieces in here and there and let some other items go, maybe we won’t need to do a lot of any overhaul. Notice that narrowing down one’s color palette is very helpful and I have done similar this year. On p of that, thanks for sharing your process with us, Happy Forgiver. Actually, as styles change you should do a little shopping to keep the overall wardrobe working.
One more ‘thingI’ found it helpful to have a portable clothes rack in my bedroom for the month or two I was working on my big purge.
Items I initially thought I wanted later moved to the rack. Then, somehow my husband lerated the rack even if our bedroom is small. Normally, if I was on the fence about something it hung on the portable rack for lots of weeks or more. Some items would go directly to the ‘give away’ pile. A well-known fact that is. This allowed me to do a big purge in a matter of months but I had a chance to really live with each decision before it became final. The entire rack got donated.
This is an excellent tip. It’s an ongoing process of purging for me and in my opinion this week might be time for another big purge. Wow, there are some great tips from everyone here! Anyways, south I really only like to wear casual dresses once the temperature reaches To that end I’ve recently purchased some good quality dresses and got rid of some lesser quality ones. Everyone sharing to help ourselves. Online info can be found by going on the web. Sometimes people aren’t ready to let things go right away and need more time to work through feelings or a decision process.
It’s very helpful to understand what we truly love to wear.
My bedroom floor would be littered with the caste offs while I tried on outfit after outfit. Narrowing for awhile way ward decreasing overshopping. Now please pay attention. Kudos to you and enjoy your dresses!
At last beginning winter I decided to only keep in my wardrobe a core wardrobe of grey, white, pale dark grey and denim and 3 accent colors. For me, this has worked brilliantly. Actually, my wardrobe is harmonious, smaller and everything goes together. It makes it easy to dress, pack and to shop. Furthermore, same colors but different ratio and more jewel tones.
Carolyn for any longer as I buy a lot less I reuse what wears out, it is infact cheaper. Usually, in my case it was a combination of a fabrics love and a desire to dress myself as ethically as I fed myself. Of course, thanks for sharing your success story here. Nonetheless, you mentioned that your wardrobe is now harmonious. It is easy for me because I love the Japanese deconstructed style so complex fitting isn’t an issue.
What great success you’ve had, Jan! Coming up with a target number to pare down can definitely be helpful. How amazing that you’ve cut your wardrobe down to about 1/3 of its previous level in just one year. How wonderful that you are now making a bit of your clothes! Gillie, I admire your efforts to dress more ethically. For example, what a great example for the most of us! I haven’t taken yet plunge as, That’s something I’ve considered.
Joanna, that’s a bunch of analysis and soul searching you did there!
Seems like you have some more wardrobe purging ahead of you. Usually, very enlightening! Tracking what I wear has helped me to see that I wasn’t wearing things nearly as often as I thought. Emmy that you’ve done a bunch of wonderful soulsearching. Essentially, we often hold on to things because we used to love them and assume that we still do. Oftentimes that’s why I always recommend that we try things on instead of just assuming they still fit well and we still like the way they look. Best of luck and enjoy wearing your other two sarongs! Aren’t Bridgette’s videos great?
Thanks for your comment. You were able to get some powerful distinctions through doing that -good for you! Essentially, thanks for your comment. You were able to get some powerful distinctions through doing that -good for you! It seems you came up with a very useful method for paring down your wardrobe. Best of luck with your continued journey! It seems you came up with a very useful method for paring down your wardrobe. Best of luck with your continued journey! Flashback and Flash Forward…. Step One -Stop the Bleeding. You Like It, Do You Wear It? Why Aren’t You Wearing It? It Was Expensive…. Well, I Might Need it One Day…. Stop Splitting Your Wears. Take on Project 333 or a Similar Challenge. Have These Suggestions Been Helpful?
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