(soft footsteps)
(opens door)
(sighs heavily)
- Ain't nobody got time for that.
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Good morning, good life.
Welcome back to Amy TV
where we come together to help you go after
the life you want.
Actually, we're really focused
on the life I want right now (chuckles)
because this is not good.
I've actually made a video like this a couple years ago
in the previous apartment that I was in.
It would look really similar to this
where I did a power hour of my closet.
And so I thought it'd be interesting to do that today
mostly because I wanted to share a photo
of the mess that my closet is right now on Instagram
and I was like, see everybody.
No one's perfect.
(laughs)
And I asked if you guys wanted to see a closet reorg
and so of course, that's why we're doing it,
'cause you said yes.
This closet lately, even when I pick up and tidy up
and hang things back up,
I mean it's just been the bane of my existence.
It's honestly been the skeleton in my literal closet
at the moment and I know for a fact
that when things are a mess around me,
I am not a productive person.
If things aren't tidy, if my desk is cluttered,
if my closet is cluttered,
I don't get excited about getting dressed.
I've been rotating the same three outfits
for about three weeks.
It's not a good thing, okay?
So I really need to get in there and organize,
but as you know, I never have unlimited amounts of time
to do stuff like this
and that is why I have a ruthless closet clean-out method
and that is under the Power Hour.
For the next hour, I'm going to be
sorting through all the things in my closet.
Lots of trash.
I like to keep boxes for some reason
'cause I think they're fun to look at
and now I'm like super over it.
Things to throw away.
I'm definitely sorting through all of my clothes.
I find that when I do this
under a very tight amount of time,
I'm much more ruthless,
but it's also much easier to get to my real emotions
about a particular piece of clothing.
We often have so much emotion tied up into our clothes.
Sometimes it's 'cause it's a gift from someone.
Sometimes it's because we really loved
the way we looked in something at one point
and it's just not our vibe any more.
And I think that it's really important
to break through that as quickly as possible.
As Marie Kondo would say,
"If it does not spark joy, you gotta let that ish go."
So we need to let some ish go today.
And that is what I intend to do,
so I thought I would share that experience with you here.
Let's break down the ruthless method.
Essentially, I'm going to take
everything out of that closet,
literally everything, hold it in my hand,
and try to figure out what to do with it.
There's only a few options.
The first one, throw it in the trash.
That's a pretty simple one.
I mean it's usually pretty evident.
If something is destroyed or it is just junk,
it goes in the trash.
The second is, does it need to get donated.
I love donating clothes.
I actually love donating clothes
more than I love selling clothes,
mostly because I know the faster I get rid of it
and donate it, the faster it's going to help somebody else.
So there's definitely gonna be a big donation pile
at the end of all of this.
Next, I will have some things that I want to sell.
I know there's stuff in there
that I've just been holding onto,
so when I see it, I know the emotion
that is attaching it to me,
and it's mostly gonna be the attachment of
this is a really nice piece of clothing.
What do I do with it?
Well, I'm gonna list it for sale
because if I'm not wearing it any more
or I didn't like the way it looked on me the last time,
it might be worth a couple bucks to somebody,
so I'm probably going to put it into my Poshmark store.
I will link to that below.
I'm not sure how much I'm going to display
of what I'm putting on Poshmark today.
If you're curious of how that shook out,
we'll have some updates for you there.
And of course, we gotta keep some stuff, right?
(chuckles) if we wanna remember what we have,
we have to put it right in front of ourselves.
The one thing that I'm gonna do differently
than I did last time about the things that I keep,
is that I have started organizing things much differently.
It used to be sort of like color coordinated tops,
color coordinated or style bottoms
and then a place for dresses.
I really only have one place to hang long items of clothing.
But in this situation, I actually
have found it useful lately
to try to pair things together
and keep them close to each other in the closet.
It can be a little bit challenging
because so many things can be paired together.
It's not a perfect system.
But it definitely made things a lot easier
in the last six months or so that I've been doing this
where it was like oh, where's my favorite pair of pants
to wear with this top?
There's not usually very many combinations
for me in that situation.
Fortunately I have a lot of like-colored things
so I can alternate stuff.
It's usually pretty easy to put the things together
that I usually like to see together.
The further apart that they are,
the more likely you're gonna forget what you have
in terms of total outfits, not just items of clothing.
It's really easy to remember
how many items of clothing you have
when they're staring you down, the mess that they are,
but if you don't remember the potential
as to why something is in your closet,
that's where you can get into trouble
and things just start piling up for no reason.
So today it's time to get super real
about what's in there, why is it in there,
where should it go next and is it gonna stay in my life?
All right, let's start the clock with one hour.
Ready, set, go.
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So I feel like the most important part
of taking everything off the hanger,
and just dumping it
and getting absolutely everything out of the closet,
is first of all, a feeling of clarity,
like that instant moment
that it's like getting better immediately.
And you also really feel every fabric and feel every shoe
and you just get it out and you notice
that you're like get out and don't come back
or you're like, ooo, I'm gonna put you right back.
You know what I mean?
You kind of feel it with everything that's happening.
And the whole time I was thinking,
I hate everything in my closet.
And so I don't know if that's like
an unhealthy thing to feel.
If you genuinely hate everything in your closet,
maybe everything in your closet has to go.
That's kind of at the stage of the game
that I'm at right now.
In some situations it's like, okay,
all of this stuff doesn't need to be on a hanger.
The fact that it took me that long
to pull everything off of a hanger is ridiculous.
I'm rotating three outfits all the time.
I mean like that's an exaggeration
but it's also not that much of an exaggeration.
When you think about all of the stuff
that's just sitting in there never coming off the hanger.
Dresses and stuff like that
that I tend to wear when I'm speaking
or I'm doing something professionally
or it's a special event,
it makes sense that that stuff's just gonna hang,
but it's all the other stuff
like I remember this green jacket
when I did this sort in 2017.
It's 2020.
I haven't worn that jacket.
I haven't worn it.
(laughs)
Like, that's crazy.
At the time, I was thinking I haven't worn this
in a really long time.
So that has to go.
Like realizing all of this is just the biggest part.
And it makes it so much easier to be ruthless.
When you don't do like sort in the closet
one piece at a time.
I think this is a Marie Kondo thing too.
Just like put everything in a pile
because the reality is every ounce of it
is what you have to go through.
The only things I have hanging up
are things I absolutely know for a fact I'm keeping
and are very hard to de-wrinkle.
That's why there's a couple things
that I was a little bit more particular about.
What's really important is start sorting
into all of those categories that I was talking about
and to only hang and only allow the things
back into that closet space
that are going to be allowed back into my life.
So now let's make sense of this mess.
I mean this just makes you want nothing ever again.
(laughs)
Doesn't it?
Oh, my gosh.
It's exhausting.
Okay, the first thing I did was organize my hangers.
I don't like to have more than one hanger,
but I did find, even though I love the velvet hangers
that I have, which just keep the clothes on so well,
there's just some clothes I don't want stuck on the hanger,
so some things that are more like fitness
have been going on these
so they can just slide off more quickly.
But I've also realized that fitness clothes
might be too easily accessed on hangers.
So I wiped down sort of some board here
I have for shoes and organized my hangers
and now I am going to start sorting.
What is allowed to come back in?
Okay, so I've made a lot of progress already
with what I wanna keep
and as you can tell, it's significantly less.
I still have a few things I need to add in there
and I haven't gone through my shoes yet,
but in the mean time, I have been keeping
a very big pile of things I now need to sort through
so that we can separate them out
into where they're going to go next.
Because they're not going back in my closet,
so they have to go someplace else.
(light music)
Here's one quick tip for those of you
who are trying to figure out what to do
with your sweaters to make sure
that they don't get all messed up on a hanger or folded.
So what I'll do is I'll fold mine in half.
This is actually a sweater dress,
so you can see it is laying as such
and then I will grab a hanger
and lay it right here.
And we're just gonna take this part,
which could be the end of your sweater
or this is is a sweater dress in this case,
and we're gonna slip it through here
and then the arms and slip it through here
and then we hang it just like that
so that it is less likely to get wrinkled, so.
(light music)
There's my sweater dress.
And because of how it's hanging,
it's very likely not going to be stretched or wrinkled
when I take it off.
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All right, we got pretty ruthless in here,
although if I have to tell the truth, um,
there's still a lot going on up here.
The separation technique I ended up going with
was things that are a little bit more suitable
versus like the sportier gear,
which is like a relaxed type of day.
This is literal sporty stuff, all of my leggings,
Fabletics and all of that,
like literally everything there is Fabletics (chuckles)
I really am a fan, people.
I'm a fan.
Bags always have to be very well taken care of, dusted.
I got my gym bag up there
and a little sentimental about my hat from my honeymoon,
so I just left that there for a little while.
I don't know.
It might get in the way, so I might have to get rid of it.
Huge pro tip, it is cold out.
If you have boots, you can see the little tab
sticking out of my boots.
I always buy these inserts.
I've talked about them on shine.squad.secrets
and on, in Shine Squad itself on patreon.
These things make your closet just look so much more tidy
when your boots can stand up straight.
And the material gets taken care of a lot better also,
so I'll link to those.
Got rid of a lot of dresses and coats
and things of that nature.
Just things I was holding onto
for absolutely no reason at all.
And shoes, very simply, on the floor
and the ones that are a little bit more showy,
I just tucked in the back just because
I'm not wearing open-toed shoes at the moment
(chuckles)
'cause it's cold outside.
So they're out, so I can see them,
but they're not up here where they used to be.
I actually decided to go
with folding sweatshirts and pants.
I usually don't do that, but lately I feel like
everything on a hanger has gotten so cluttered,
I need a little bit of a change-up
and I don't have a dresser,
so that is where we ended up.
Hopefully this was helpful for you
in your future organizing of your closet.
What do you think?
Is there anything you would have done differently?
How do you typically sort?
How do you usually pair things in your closet?
I would love to see your organizing tips
in the comments below.
That is all for today.
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