Clean out my closet.

Yesterday I went through all of my hanging clothes and decided what to keep, what to sell and what to donate. I still need to clean out my shoes and drawers.

In two months, I’ll be moving into a teeny tiny dorm room at UW-Madison. I’ll have 1/3 of the closet space I have now, so I need to do some serious re-evaluation. This will involve giving away clothes I never wear, purging through the supplies I never use, filling trash bags, and giving away belongings to the Salvation Army.

SO worth it. It was mostly clothes and junk I didn’t need.

For clothes, I keep the clothes that goes with whatever season it is (ie, summer time = summer clothes) and put them in the closet. (Spring clothes could work too) As for the fall and winter clothes, I put them away in my armoire. Then, I got rid of unnecessary junk and donated it. Don’t get picky, if you haven’t worn or used it in the last year, toss it out. Getting a friend to help you can make it easier.

I’ve been procrastinating on this….............so tonight…...30 minutes on the closet before I let myself wind down for the night.

but I have cleaned out the linen closet and the coat closet. I tried to clean out the guest bedroom closet, but just sort of succeeded in putting all our junk in there that we don’t need much. Like suitcases, extra blankets, sewing machine, etc. So, it’s full and I’m not sure that you would say it’s clean if you looked at it, but it functions so far, so I’m putting in on the ‘done’ list.

I finished putting away the very last things from the closet. It’s done! It looks great!

that I could check this one off my list, but I can’t.
Today I bought a 3 drawer container and two stackable drawers and all my lingerie is neatly organized in those inside my closet. The shelf I needed to clean out is tidy now, and things are in containers with lids so the dust won’t get to them. My closet looks great!!!!
However, I still have one sack of things that I’ve removed from the closet that I need to deal with. Once that is done, I can check this off, but not until.
This has been fun. I’m going to do the very same thing with another de-cluttering project.

the shoes in my closet. It made me realize how many pair of shoes I’ve bought looking for a cure for my feet.
Yesterday, I took the 5 sacks of clothing to goodwill. It was great to follow through and have them out of the house, never to return.
I’ve created a new stack of 12 more items which I hope to add to soon.
I have one shelf in my closet that I need to organize and then all that I have left is refolding items on the shelves.

I tackled the job and got it done and even attended a condo board meeting after … IN MY CONDO!! Of course clothes were piled high on my bed, but then no one knew until I had to get the table leaf from under my bed! After the meeting I put the clothes away and folded the clothes that I washed.The following day, after I came home from work, I finished what was left. I also bought some clear shoe boxes to store the excess shoes in. I have two shoe trees but it was not enuf.

What prompted the cleaning was that I only have a one bedroom condo and residing there besides myself, are my two cats. Now the cat box does not fit in the bathroom sooooo it is in my walk-in closet. I also have an air purifier in there too. Anyway the dust from the litter in just one years time has covered everything in its path. I have now switched to a crystal litter which has no dust so therefore eliminating further problems.

Jobs like this totally overwhelm me…..That’s why I procrastinate and don’t do them! So for my own sanity, I’ll break this down into steps. First, I’ll work on these two step.

STEP 1. Purge! get rid of everything that doesn’t fit, doesn’t flatter, is out-of-style or is just plain worn out.

STEP 2. Bag up all that stuff and give it to goodwill.