How to Organize Your Clothes
Schedule a time 4 times a year to go through your wardrobe.
Remove all of your clothing from your closets, dressers, and shelves and put them all in a pile somewhere in your house. Once you have all of your clothing out in the open you can see just how many articles of clothing you actually have and then you can start the organization process. Idealistically, after organizing you should have for each season 7 different outfits, one for each day of the week (choose outfits you can mix and match as mixing and matching outfits with different accessories can give you more variety). Work clothing, 5-7 pajamas (if you wear them), 1 or 2 bathrobes and of course, a couple outfits for church, a nice dinner outfit or two for going out on the town (if you go out a lot you could have 7 outfits). Selecting pieces of clothing you can mix and match can expand your wardrobe without adding more clothing.
Getting started: After piling all of your clothing in one place you can start organizing them by dividing your clothing by season into four piles. Then start sorting your clothing piles-one season at a time.
Look at each piece of clothing and decide whether you want to keep it. Keep several trash bags, and/or cardboard and plastic storage boxes nearby for sorting purposes.
Ask yourself these questions for each piece of clothing:
Do I really need this piece of clothing?
Do I actually wear this piece and if so, how often?
Can I live without this piece of clothing?
Damaged Clothing
If there are rips, tears, broken zippers, or missing buttons on some articles you may want to discard those clothing pieces. If you like to sew and will actually have time to repair the clothing put the pieces you want to keep and repair into a box. If you most likely will never end up repairing them, put them in the trash pile. If you make quilts, put them in a box to be cut into squares or give them to someone who does. If you already have been saving damaged clothing for crafts and have not done anything with them in the past six months to a year, it's time to get rid of them.
Throw away old torn or stained clothing.
Clothing you want
Put undamaged, clean clothing that you wear often and want to keep in one pile for each season.
Clothing that does not fit you
Discard or donate clothing which no longer fits you.
Donate Clothing
Many local charities accept used clothing. Put clean, undamaged clothing you want to donate (folded neatly) in boxes and put them in your vehicle so you won't forget to drop them off at your local charity.
Clothing you are attached to
Only keep clothing you actually wear. Don't keep clothing just because you feel attached to it but never wear. If it is something you just cannot part with like a sports jersey, cheer leader outfit from high school you never wear, for example. Consider framing it and hanging it on the wall or having it professionally boxed for display.
Choosing clothing by lifestyle
Your lifestyle determines what you should keep. For example, If you are a professional you should sort business clothing into outfits made from pieces that you will actually wear. If you are a farmer and often wear stained clothing, discard them and purchase a jumpsuit, long jackets or robes that you can wear over top of your work clothing that you can hang somewhere that you do your chores.
Uniforms
If you wear uniforms at work, put all your work outfits in one area of your closet.
Once you have successfully sorted your clothing by season, discarded damaged clothing, separated clothing you want to donate, and decided on pieces you actually want to keep you should notice a considerable reduction in your pile of clothes and start to feel like you are actually getting organized.
Put the current season clothes in your closet, dressers, and organizers.
Box and label clothing for the other seasons that you know for a fact that you will wear and store them until it is time to wear them. At the end of each season, remove and inspect all clothing from the current season. Decide what you want to keep and store the rest, then put the next seasons clothing in your closets, dressers, and organizers.
Look at your empty closet
Once you are down to what you actually need and wear and all of the off season clothing you want to keep is stored, take a good look at your empty closet. Would organizers help you to get more of your saved clothing items into the same space? If so, you should decide on what type of organizers you need. These days there are many kinds of organizers for shoes, drawer organizers, closet organizers, etc. Take a look at organizers that are available and affordable then decide which ones would suit your needs best.
Remove all of your clothing from your closets, dressers, and shelves and put them all in a pile somewhere in your house. Once you have all of your clothing out in the open you can see just how many articles of clothing you actually have and then you can start the organization process. Idealistically, after organizing you should have for each season 7 different outfits, one for each day of the week (choose outfits you can mix and match as mixing and matching outfits with different accessories can give you more variety). Work clothing, 5-7 pajamas (if you wear them), 1 or 2 bathrobes and of course, a couple outfits for church, a nice dinner outfit or two for going out on the town (if you go out a lot you could have 7 outfits). Selecting pieces of clothing you can mix and match can expand your wardrobe without adding more clothing.
Getting started: After piling all of your clothing in one place you can start organizing them by dividing your clothing by season into four piles. Then start sorting your clothing piles-one season at a time.
Look at each piece of clothing and decide whether you want to keep it. Keep several trash bags, and/or cardboard and plastic storage boxes nearby for sorting purposes.
Ask yourself these questions for each piece of clothing:
Do I really need this piece of clothing?
Do I actually wear this piece and if so, how often?
Can I live without this piece of clothing?
Damaged Clothing
If there are rips, tears, broken zippers, or missing buttons on some articles you may want to discard those clothing pieces. If you like to sew and will actually have time to repair the clothing put the pieces you want to keep and repair into a box. If you most likely will never end up repairing them, put them in the trash pile. If you make quilts, put them in a box to be cut into squares or give them to someone who does. If you already have been saving damaged clothing for crafts and have not done anything with them in the past six months to a year, it's time to get rid of them.
Throw away old torn or stained clothing.
Clothing you want
Put undamaged, clean clothing that you wear often and want to keep in one pile for each season.
Clothing that does not fit you
Discard or donate clothing which no longer fits you.
Donate Clothing
Many local charities accept used clothing. Put clean, undamaged clothing you want to donate (folded neatly) in boxes and put them in your vehicle so you won't forget to drop them off at your local charity.
Clothing you are attached to
Only keep clothing you actually wear. Don't keep clothing just because you feel attached to it but never wear. If it is something you just cannot part with like a sports jersey, cheer leader outfit from high school you never wear, for example. Consider framing it and hanging it on the wall or having it professionally boxed for display.
Choosing clothing by lifestyle
Your lifestyle determines what you should keep. For example, If you are a professional you should sort business clothing into outfits made from pieces that you will actually wear. If you are a farmer and often wear stained clothing, discard them and purchase a jumpsuit, long jackets or robes that you can wear over top of your work clothing that you can hang somewhere that you do your chores.
Uniforms
If you wear uniforms at work, put all your work outfits in one area of your closet.
Once you have successfully sorted your clothing by season, discarded damaged clothing, separated clothing you want to donate, and decided on pieces you actually want to keep you should notice a considerable reduction in your pile of clothes and start to feel like you are actually getting organized.
Put the current season clothes in your closet, dressers, and organizers.
Box and label clothing for the other seasons that you know for a fact that you will wear and store them until it is time to wear them. At the end of each season, remove and inspect all clothing from the current season. Decide what you want to keep and store the rest, then put the next seasons clothing in your closets, dressers, and organizers.
Look at your empty closet
Once you are down to what you actually need and wear and all of the off season clothing you want to keep is stored, take a good look at your empty closet. Would organizers help you to get more of your saved clothing items into the same space? If so, you should decide on what type of organizers you need. These days there are many kinds of organizers for shoes, drawer organizers, closet organizers, etc. Take a look at organizers that are available and affordable then decide which ones would suit your needs best.
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1. Header image. Men’s Closet Goals photo by Roberto Nickson (@rpnickson) on Unsplash. (2019). Unsplash.com. Retrieved 23 January 2019, from https://unsplash.com/photos/ZXbDeof0nlQ
1. Header image. Men’s Closet Goals photo by Roberto Nickson (@rpnickson) on Unsplash. (2019). Unsplash.com. Retrieved 23 January 2019, from https://unsplash.com/photos/ZXbDeof0nlQ