Hi, I’m Kristen and I want to warmly welcome you to the Closet Clearout challenge. I’d like to teach you my method to remove clutter and excess from your clothes closet, dressers, shoes, accessories and clothes in storage. The benefits of having a clean closet are huge and you are going to feel so good when you’re done. If you’re like me, you probably have a lot of clothes that you don’t wear. Either they don’t fit well or the color is wrong or they were a gift you didn’t like so much. Maybe you hang on to worn out things for sentimental reasons. Even if you clean your closet and dressers regularly, extra clothes accumulate as if by magic. So I came up with a quick method for clearing things out that makes it easy to make decisions. I do this clearout at least twice a year on my own closets (and whenever I can sneak into my husband’s closet, too). …show more content…
We’ll take it step-by step, doing one area of your clothes storage at a time. Each one of the seven steps should take a day or less, depending on the size of your wardrobe. Do you have to do it in a week? Of course not. Your busy life may not allow you to clear closets every day, but if you keep at it you’ll have a clean closet before you know it. Take each action at your own pace, but once you start, try to finish each step within a day to keep from tripping over the piles of clothes or making your room look like a hurricane blew through. If you can get a friend or a group to do it together, that makes it more fun. And that valuable second opinion about “Does this make me look fat?” keeps you from saving things that are better off given away. You can visit one anothers’ homes in person or chat via Skype as you all work. Or start a Facebook group, subreddit, or whatever online options you