Want to make your life easier? Clean out, clean up and get your clothes closet organized. With an organized closet you can see what you have, what fits and the clothes you love to wear. Even better — everything is easier to find!
Here are simple steps to find calm in all that chaos. By the way, these same principles for organizing a clothes closet apply to linen closets, utility closets and your food pantry. And the best part? You can do this without spending a dime, using items and tools you have already. The tools you need are boxes, a full-length mirror and a trash can.
STEP NO. 1: EVERYTHING OUT
That’s right. Remove everything from the closet. All of it — every last hanger, belt, shoe — everything. This lets you see exactly the space you have to work with. Prepare to be shocked by the pile of stuff that comes out of that closet.
STEP NO. 2: DEEP CLEAN
Once you’ve cleared things out, clean the closet thoroughly from top to bottom. If the space still looks a bit dirty even after a deep clean, consider a fresh coat of white paint.
STEP NO. 3: SEGREGATE
Most people — me included — hate this step because it means getting rid of everything you do not use or wear. But what choice do you have now that you’ve hauled it out? There’s no way you could get all of this back into the closet, so buck up, and let’s get this job done.
Label five boxes (bins, containers) that will allow you to separate everything you took out of the closet. As you determine each item’s value, put it into that specific container.
Box No. 1: Keep
Here comes the most important step in this whole process. The goal is to keep only those items you truly love, fit well and you wear (or will wear now that you have found them!). Keep what you love and wear often. That means try it on! Stand in front of the mirror. Does it fit well, giving you that “spark of joy”? Be honest with yourself. If it doesn’t make the mark, out it goes.
Put only items into this Keep Box that you have worn or used…
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