Closet Cleaning Strategies:
No Regrets ~ Part 1

Fall is here sig­nal­ing time for change!

It is time to clean your clos­et and to re-assess all the clothes you love and that look good on you.

What needs to go? All the clothes that are just tak­ing up space and do not look good on you:

• Clothes that you put on and then take off ~they nev­er make it out of your house because you are not com­fort­able with them. Clothes that don’t fit prop­er­ly or, there is some­thing wrong or missing.

Now is the time to get clear:

• Are the mis­fits tru­ly wrong for you or is some­thing miss­ing & all you need is some­thing to go with them?

Get in the right frame of mind. Give your­self per­mis­sion to just toss the ones you hate into piles to donate or con­sign. If you donate to your favorite local char­i­ty the cast offs will allow them to raise mon­ey to do their mis­sion; your dona­tions will do good work, with no guilt & no regrets…how cool is that?

“No Regrets”  Clos­et Clean­ing Strategy….

1.  Approach your clos­et when rest­ed and in a good mood.
2. Wear make up and your best underwear.
3.  Have a full-length mir­ror in a room with good light.
4.  Remove all clothes and place on a rolling cloth­ing rack (you can rent one).
5.  Try on each out­fit and rate them in the fol­low­ing manner:

• I love it and it fits…. Keep it
• I love it and I am will­ing to put more mon­ey in to alter it…Keep it and alter it.
• I love it and it does not fit or is very tired…Keep it and get it copied at a good tai­lor shop…If you are not will­ing to copy it, toss it.
• I love it and it is nev­er com­ing back in style…Archive it in your own per­son­al col­lec­tion in anoth­er stor­age area, extra clos­et or trunk. Nev­er store them in your work­ing closet.
• I don’t like it… as men­tioned ear­li­er donate it to char­i­ty, con­sign it, or toss it. Just get it out of your clos­et. Maybe give it back to the per­son who gave it to you…(Just guess­ing) or take them to a swap…. Just be care­ful on what you bring back home.

6.     Now play dress-up with the clothes and out­fits you love. Try recom­bin­ing them in dif­fer­ent ways and see what is miss­ing…. Ask your­self “if I just had this…(fill in the blank) could I make more com­bi­na­tions?” If so, put it on your shop­ping list.

6) If you get stuck any­where in this process ask for help. It can be over­whelm­ing and it is so hard to see one­self. Get anoth­er pair of eyes you trust, a girl­friend that has good taste and looks like you or a col­or and wardrobe con­sul­tant who can step you through the sec­tions that stop you.

You don’t want to strug­gle and sec­ond-guess your­self; it
just takes too much time and energy.

And if you work with some­one you trust, then no regrets. You will keep the trea­sures and toss the trash.