*Update* So I did this last year and cleaned out so many clothes that I didn’t even realize I didn’t wear! I’m doing it again this year but hopefully won’t purge too much more because I only have things in the closet that I actually wear now.
I just did this in my closet last night. Yep, that picture above is MY closet. I hadn’t moved my winter stuff from the spare closet to my closet yet because, well, winter just made it’s appearance in Alabama – I didn’t need any winter clothes until yesterday.
So all my winter stuff is in my closet along with the fall/spring clothes I will need on our warmer winter days. I turned all the hangers around backwards. By spring any winter stuff that is still backwards gets tossed – donated or put in the yard sale. And I’ll do the same thing with my summer clothes when I move them back into my closet. And at the end of summer, any hangers that are still backwards get tossed too.
When I originally saw this idea it said to turn them all around and purge whatever is backwards after one year, but I have very limited closet space so I can only keep one season’s worth of clothes in my closet at a time so I’m going to have to do it per season.
While I was moving clothes from closet to closet and turning hangers around I already found 14 things to go ahead and send to goodwill – yay!
I plan to do this in Hub’s side of the closet too! I swear, he wears the same things over and over again and everything else in his closet just sits there.
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