give away all the clothes I never wear

i’ve started this, but i’m really now realizing that i don’t have a ton of clothes.
hahaha, i guess that’s a good thing.

but the closet is being cleaned out and it makes me feel good.

I’ve been doing good at this all summer… gave a ton of clothes to Marjorie and Mikaela before I moved, just took a ton home to Lisa and Heather, and have a box going to give to the Genesis Women’s Shelter here in Dallas. When I get that dropped off, I’m done!

i have sorted out my clothes (the ones in cardiff anyway: i have some more at my parents’ house). some went in the bin and some are waiting in a pile to go to the charity shop.

Except I may have gone too far the other way and left myself with not very much at all to wear. Hey-ho, there’s always black bin-liner chic should I need a new frock anytime soon.

Here’s to a simpler, less cluttered lifestyle…

Two big black bags full of clothes made their way to charity shops today. I hesitated over a few of my old favourite things (“but it’s so nice”, “it really suits me” – yeah, and it’s also too small for you now!) but I’m proud that I got rid of them in the end.

I can’t believe there’s still more to get rid of; my clothes addiction is worse than I thought!

I have soooooo many clothes. More clothes than I have room for. More clothes than a small department store has room for. And to make it worse, I always wear the same small selection of things. I’ve made the classic mistake of hanging onto clothes from when I was ridiculously thin “just in case” (which is daft because I never want to be that underweight again), although I also have a somewhat larger wardrobe should I feel the need to supersize me. So, yeah, I pretty much could open my own shop.

I’m getting sick of having no room for anything because there’s clothes everywhere, and I don’t have the patience to diligently sell each item on ebay and hope for a buyer, so I will be making at least umpteen visits to the local charity shops and recycling centres in the next couple of weeks!

There is one of those clothing dumping bins right by the supermarket where I get groceries. So it is easy for me to dump the cleaned clothes that might have a hole or tear that someone who is handy can easily stitch up. I think that the Planet Aid bin is raided by people who sell clothes on the sidewalk across the street because it looks like that Planet Aid bin has taken quite a beating. (Yes, they actually pile the clothes right on the uncovered pavement and sell them. And lots of people toss them around and buy them.) But I don’t care; they are getting better use of the clothes than I am.

to the local Boy Scouts troop for their annual fundraiser. Also donated household stuff that I no longer had any use for.

I finally got rid of the clothes that I don’t want, that don’t fit me, or that I don’t wear – I should be moving to my new house in about a month, so I really needed to pare down my wardrobe!
It’s annoying because I virtually have two sets of clothes – work clothes and leisure clothes, and most of the time they don’t mix, and it was mostly leisure clothes that got the boot this time. I’ll have to start going through my clothes more often.

When something new goes into the closet, something old must come out. I think this is a workable plan until such time as I get motivated enough to clean out the whole closet.