Organizing your clothes closet
If you live anywhere other than the end of nowhere like I do you might actually be experiencing spring right now. I, however, am not. I envy you because we are so not anywhere near pulling out our spring and summer clothes any time soon. However if you are one of the lucky ones seeing the sun and the grass and the birds (sniff, sniff) then this weekend you might want to spend some time rotating out your seasonal clothes. Come on it’ll be fun! 🙂
Does that sound daunting? It doesn’t need to be. Check out these posts for a little kick in the behind motivation.
Let’s face it letting go of clothes can be hard. Lara, The Lazy Organizer, shares with you what she learned as she went through her own closet and how she was able to finally part with items that weren’t meeting her established criteria.
Mandi from Organizing Your Way recently discussed a step by step plan to walk you through rotating your seasonal wardrobe and included the pros and cons of each step.
Sometimes we get attached to certain outfits for sentimental reasons. Check out how Tanna from Complete Organizing Solutions solved this common problem. Love it!
I wrote a post of my own last fall showing you the process I take myself as I exchange my clothes out for the season. It is a big job but definitely so worth it.
Finally, and this is so important, remember that organizing rules are meant to be broken. Debbie from Virtually Organized explains why. Do what works for you even if it doesn’t make sense to anyone else. Don’t sweat it!
Let me know how you make out and if you remember to take “before” pictures you’ll be well on your way to participating in this month’s Organizing Round-Up.
Have fun!
I don’t bother with rotating summer clothes/winter clothes. It doesn’t get very warm here in the summer, so we want our sweaters sometimes. :
I don’t rotate seasonal clothes either. I don’t have enough clothes to rotate! Cleaning out my closet has been fun. It’s so nice having only clothes I love and wear in there.
Thanks for the link!
It’s time to:
a) switch things out
and
b) Get rid of some clothes
Thanks for the reminder! 😀
Oh, I edited my closet last week – it was such a great feeling to take out clothes I had not worn in forever! I made a big list of the clothes and then donated them to two organizations in town. It was a great spring feeling! And now I have so much space in my closet, I can almost dance 🙂
I actually cleaned out my closet and organized it 2 weeks ago. I did one side of it and still have to do other side. I dont have befores but I could post afters.
I totally am a seasonal clothing rotator 🙂 Just took care of that this weekend.
Thanks so much for including my post, Laura! I loved the other links as well.
I have a hard time getting rid of my daughter’s clothes, even though they have so many, because of the memories attached to them, but it really is a simpler process when I force myself to only save the ones that the next one will really wear or the extra special ones.
Rotating your clothes for spring can be a very daunting task if you are not up for it. Thanks for the nice tips.
I can’t reach my wardrobe yet, too much clutter in the way, but I am beginning to be able to set some of my clothing free.
I posted a bit about that here: http://dehoardingdiary.youblog.net/kittychaos-b1/How-I-Decide-What-To-Throw-4-b1-p81.htm
I won’t be able to organise the wardrobe this month, but I still plan to work on at least getting rid of some of my clothes in the meantime.
YAY! I finally did this – thanks for all the links. I don’t rotate seasonal stuff either as it gets chilly here too.