March Madness - a list of ideas!

[spiffikins]

I saw this on FB today and thought it might be helpful for this group!

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[vysila]

Oh, nice list! I like that these are smallish things to declutter, which makes it easier to do and feel successful. Thanks for posting this.

[spiffikins]

I liked the fact that a lot of these are super obvious, and yet, not something I think of when I am looking for stuff to get rid of - socks and underwear with holes, expired coupons, old makeup and nail polish - this stuff does expire!

some of them are questionable - seasonal clothing might not get worn within the last 6 months, LOL.
I haven't worn my hiking boots in ages - but I'm not going to toss them - the last time I needed them, was an unexpected trip to Boston in January - and boots were a necessity!

Excess tupperware though - that's a thing I should totally work on - I could easily cull a bunch of my containers.

[vysila]

Excess Tupperware and storage containers. Yep, even that sort of stuff wears out. I cleared out a big pile about two years ago, it was astonishing how much I had that needed to be tossed.

That idea that you should toss out anything you haven't worn in six months is flawed, I think, because of seasons. I'd put it at a year or even longer.

I gotta clear out my sock drawer, come to think of it. Most of my socks have giant holes in them!

[spiffikins]

Especially since most of my Tupperware is *not* the official type that last for ages, but rather the semi-disposable ziploc and gladware types. They definitely do wear out!

On clothing, I remember reading something that suggested that at the start of the season, when you swap out all your clothing (??? do people do this?) hang all your clothing in the closet with the coathangers "backwards" from how you normally hang them - so hook facing you, rather than hook facing the back of the closet.

At the end of the season, anything left with the hook facing you - you didn't wear, and presumably you can get rid of it without any issue.

The only issue for me is that I don't have "seasonal" clothing, really :D Course, we don't have "seasons" here either, so that's probably part of it!

But - unless it's a special occasion wear or formal interview type clothing - probably if I haven't worn it in a year, that's a good indication that I can chuck it.

[vysila]

I suppose people with very limited closet space and a lot of clothes do swap out seasonal wardrobes although I don't do that. But I DO use the hanger trick, or at least I used to. I found it to be pretty useful.

A mild year-round climate sounds like a fabulous thing to me!

[spiffikins]

My issue right now is that I have a big section of closet that has "work" clothing from...20 years ago when I moved here and bought a bunch of more "formal" tops for work (back when I put more effort into things, I guess)

I don't want to get rid of those tops, because if I have to go to a customer site, I drag them out and de-wrinkle them, and wear them :D And I don't really want to box them up because that makes them even *more* wrinkly :D But they are taking up a lot of closet space that I kind of want back :D

But I also might find myself in need of a Real Work Wardrobe at some point!

I am going to have to just go through them, and maybe I will roll them up and put them away. I can cull some stuff from that section of the closet too, I suspect.

EDIT: oh, and yes - this year round climate is great! It's all about the layers!

[vysila]

Hmmm. Would those 20 year old tops still fit? I mean, I've only lost 10 pounds and today's jeans are about falling off me!

Although it's true, you still have a fair whack of working years ahead of you still, and if things change and the office is an option again, you might need a 'work' wardrobe again. Everything is a dilemma, isn't it?