Turn Your Closet Around!
Turn Your Closet Around!
It’s Spring and time to pull out the short sleeves!
It’s also a great time of year to re-work your closet and turn it around!
What do I mean by that? One great tip for evaluating your clothing is to give yourself a visual clue. When the seasons change, turn the hangers in your closet around. All of them! Then as you pull out pieces to wear and then re-hang after you have worn/washed them, hang them back up in the usual method. Here, I’ll give you an example.
You know what they say – people use 20% of their items 80% of the time. If this is true for you and your clothing, you have a lot of stuff hanging in your closet that hasn’t seen the light of day in a long time. These pieces will identify themselves to you as time goes on by still sitting on a hanger that is turned around.
I do this exercise every Spring and Fall. It keeps me honest. I did it this morning, in about 5 minutes in my entire closet.
Sometimes it will make me wear something that is still “turned” so that I won’t get rid of it. It really does make you think and not mindlessly keep things that you do not use.
I arrange my clothing by type (short sleeves, long sleeves, pants, skirts, etc.) and then by color. So it’s easy to grab all the same types and just swing them around to re-hang.
This exercise took me only 5 minutes. Now I’ll work with it for the next few months. When the seasons change again, I’ll look for hangers that have not been “turned” and evaluate whether each item should continue to hang in my closet and take up space.
I see it this way, if I haven’t worn that floral print skirt all summer, what’s the chance that I’ll wear it next summer, all the while taking up my valuable closet real estate? What do you think?
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Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
Right now, I think we need to go back to a year before the pandemic for a realistic sense of what we are actually wearing. I haven’t worn any of my dresses since maybe 2018! Though based on that, I need to get rid of all of them, and I don’t think I’m ready for that. I did get finally rid of my floral skirt though!
Hi Janet. Since the pandemic, I am certainly dressing differently (and I put on some weight) so I’ve really been doing through my wardrobe with a critical eye. But we should do this every Spring in order to stay organized.