New Season Wardrobe Declutter and Organizing

The Turn of a Season is an Ideal Time to Evaluate last seasons clothes and prepare for the upcoming one

At the beginning of the new season, when the summer clothes are no longer needed and the warmer sweaters are needed to be put to the front of the closet, it's a great time to evaluate your wardrobe for the upcoming season. It's time to go through what is in your closet at this moment and see if there is anything you can get rid of now. Time to make note of things that you don't love anymore and see if there is anything you can get rid of that you already weren't in love with anymore last season.

Step 1: Clothes to "pass on"

Take a moment right now. Stop what you're doing. Think about your closet. Really visualize it. Most likely, you could tell me exactly where you top three favorite items are placed. What about the other ones? Can you identify right now, just by thinking about them, which items are not your favorite? Can you start a mental list of what pieces you know you don't wear often/at all that you need to let go of? Are there any you want to try to wear more, before getting that stage of giving them away?

Now, actually go to your closet.  Take out the pieces that you identified in the exercise above. My thinking, if you are doing this seasonally, is that a lot of these clothes will be from the past season that you didn't get around to wearing or didn't want to wear. Those are pieces that you can let go of NOW, and pass on to someone else who can make better use of it! If there is still a pile left of clothes you are not ready to let go of yet, move on to step two!

Step 2: Clothes to "mark" and remember

If you can't get rid of it but you are still unsure of it because you feel like you "might" use it or "might" need an extra sweater, then mark it. A lot of times you don't want to get rid of clothes before a new season starts in case you find a use for them during the cold weather. Still, there are always a few clothes you could pick out of the pile that you can remember not liking last season. For example, summer is ending, so you have let go of the summer pieces you did not wear. Fall is only just beginning so you might want to make a deal with yourself to keep the item for the next 3 months of the season to see if you wear it. Still, if you think back to last fall, you can probably remember whether or not you neglected it back then; if so, it's time to let it go.

 Mark the pieces of clothing that you are somewhat unsure of but are reluctant to get rid of because the new season is only just starting. Take a picture of the piece of clothing and hang the hanger up backward in your closet. If you don't hang the piece of clothing up since it's not an option in terms of space, don't worry, that is was the picture is for.

Use this as a test to see if you wear the pieces during the season. Give yourself a time frame and deadline for when you will go back to look at the pictures and the backward hangers and get rid of the things you did not wear during the season. At this point, you have given yourself time and proven to yourself that it is time to pass these items on.