<p>Did you install closet organizer? If not, I woudl do that. I do not move my clothes seasonally. I do not have to becaseu with organizer you have so much more space. I still think that I have way too much clothes. My biggest chore is to getting rid of clothes on a regular basis. I does not happen as often as it should, only about once / year. My closet has shelves and some are with their own doors. This way theshoes on the shoe shelves are not getting dusty and the same with purses on the “purse” shelf. Some spaces have double racks - upper and lower, while others a single racked for the longer dresses and coats.<br>
We organizers in every closet in out house, including the “coat” closet at the entrance. The once that ate not used as “bedroom” closet are still used efficiently for other items. For example, you can open one closet and discover a working TV on the shelf. </p>
<p>Love the skinny hangers–but if you can find the ones with a small hook on them so they can cascade it’s great.
Bought a bunch at Sam’s but now can’t find the ones with the hook on them. I hook similar dresses together,holiday items, similar tops–
Organizing by color is the way to go. So much easier to see what you have and find things.
I bought some closet-type storage bins from IKEA–I put out-of-season, rarely worn clothes in them and store them at the bottom of my closet. When clearing things out, I start there. They work as my “clothes limbo”. Sort of like that trash bag but delaying decisions.
The “grab a category” sorting is the way to go when culling–much faster and when you realize you have umpteen of the same thing it’s easier to let go. Especially since you’re probably only wearing one or two of one thing on a regular basis because you actually hate the rest or they don’t fit
If you have a small clothes rack (maybe one in your laundry room?) that you can use to pull and cull those categories out of your closet, you’ll do better. Laying them on your bed where they are actually harder to see (and all you want to do is clean off the bed and stuff things back in the closet) is </p>
<p>When I was really serious about downsizing due to “I’m not wearing half of all this stuff!!!” my OCD nature took over and I literally counted how many of each item there were and eliminated half. So…46 dresses/eliminate 23. 80 Tshirts/eliminate 40. Etc. You could do 10 percent… </p>
<p>^^That seems awfully arbitrary to me.</p>
<p>For me a big step to minimizing closet bulge is to limit new purchases. I think very carefully before buying a new clothing item. Then I purge enough to avoid buildup. </p>
<p>VeryHappy…it is sort of arbitrary EXCEPT I now have about 30% of the wardrobe I used to. And STILL wear exactly the same stuff. In other words, I had “collected” lots of “merely okay” stuff that day in and day out I would not choose over the 30% that I really liked. </p>
<p>Edited to add: AND what was amazing to me was that narrowing it down by the numbers was actually much easier. There was a bright line that only under those conditions became obvious: Put twenty things on the bed and choose back the ten you must keep. It was easier to sort flotsom from jetsom, wheat from chaff then a more “how long has it been, when might I use it again” emo version for me. </p>