Can I tell you how great my closet it? I cleaned it out a few weeks ago--one of my first decluttering efforts--and it's fantastic. I have cleaned my closet many times in the past, of course, but this time I threw away or donated so much more than in the past. I wasn't totally ruthless, but close to it. I am the kind of person who wears the same clothes all the time, and I alternate between just a few pairs of shoes, so I just don't need that much.
The most significant change is that I got a sweater hanger. For the past ten years, I've been
folding and stacking throwing and piling my sweaters on the shelf above the hanging rack. I am only 5' 2", and, therefore, I've spent the last 10 years with a mess of sweaters falling on my head and on the floor whenever I try to get a sweater down from the shelf. Now, the sweaters are in the sweater hanger, and the top shelf of the closet is reserved for storage of photos, mementos, and travel supplies.
The photo below is from the project in process, but it shows my awesome sweater hanger. Now that the project is complete, the floor of the closet has nothing but few pairs of shoes, and the top shelf has the items I mentioned above. The clothes on the right edge of the frame are my husbands. I also have a bureau for socks, skivvies, t-shirts, and tanks, but, otherwise, this is my wardrobe.
The closet is wonderful, and I know that it won't become a disaster again because I got rid of so much. I have finally learned a way I can organize: Have less stuff!
Now I've moved on to the desk in the study.
2 comments:
Nice! I definitely like a well-organized closet! (It's hard for me to maintain though. I have a lot of clothes, but like you, I only wear a few things. I really need to get rid of some stuff.)
I love those sweater hangers! It's an essential in my closet too. I love the post-closet-cleanout catharsis, too. I *really* cleared some old things from mine in January and suddenly it was like I got some of my brain back. Decluttering for the mind, too :)
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