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Simplify
Your Wardrobe
Part 1 of 3
Okay - show of hands, even though I can't see them.... How many of you
have done any of the following in the past 90 days:
□ Put on an outfit only to realize you liked the top or bottom but did
not have a matching top or bottom that you liked to wear with it, and
thus changed out of it?
□ Tried on more than 2 outfits for a single event?
□ Tried on something in your closet only to discover you no longer like
the way it looks, but left it in your closet anyway?
□ Argued with a child (or had a long conversation) about what they were
going to wear?
□ Scrambled to find a matching outfit for your child?
□ Wanted to wear something only to discover it needed to be mended,
ironed or dry-cleaned so chose to wear something else?
□ Have a pile of clothes that need repairing, ironing or dry cleaning
that have not moved forward in any of the aforementioned processes in
the last 3 weeks?
This week's challenge is geared toward your personal wardrobe, but I
strongly encourage you to do this with any children's wardrobes if you
are responsible for getting them dressed in the morning. It is simply
amazing how much time we spend putting on and taking off, searching for
a missing item of clothing or a 'match,' running errands to dry clean
or mend, ironing, pre-soaking, taking something off in frustration and
then adding it to a pile we will later have to fold so we can repeat
the process later!
Since dressing is something we do daily, it is important to tackle on
the simple path. When we don't have good routines and practices in
place, what should be a simple task becomes a source of stress and
lost-time. Not to mention, it isn't a great feeling to put something on
and decide you don't like how it looks first thing in the morning!
We will approach this in three phases--
Phase I: this week we
will do the 'prep' work
Phase II: We will go through pile 1--
the most important!
Phase III: We will sort through the
remaining piles and create some guidelines for your personal wardrobe
management plan
Step One:
First, wash and repair everything you own so everything is clean and
ready for a clear decision. Remove all special occasion clothes that
you need to keep but don't wear on a regular basis. Store them at an
end rod of your closet, or better yet in a different closet.
Step Two:
Begin with three piles ...
1. Your favorite items: You wear them a lot, you feel good in them and
they are comfortable.
2. Things you don't wear for whatever reason.
3. Things that fall in between 1 and 2 - you don't love them, but you
wear them.
Come back next week, and we'll continue the
process of simplifying our wardrobes.
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