hello wonderful humans welcome back to the bliss bean in last week's video I mentioned that I am a
minimalist in many ways but certainly not when it comes to my closet so today we're gonna fix that
I actually did have my closet down to a pretty good size at some point long long ago but I think
my main problem or there's two main problems the first is that I feel like I have yet to find my
personal style and I just can't commit to any one style and the second is that I really like to go
thrifting and everything there is so pretty cheap and it makes me feel so adventurous and I just end
up thinking really bad decisions so it's gone a little out of hand there's a lot in here that I
just do not wear and every time I see it I feel bad for not wearing it physical clutter really
translates into mental clutter and so for the sake of the cloudiness of my room but also for the sake
of my sanity today I'm going to be tackling this problem our mission today step 1 attempting the
impossible task of defining my personal style step 2 taking everything out of my closet and
quickly sorting it and to keep don't keep or maybe step three trying things on and reevaluating my
decisions and finally step four reorganizing everything I wish I could say that I have one
personal style but I just don't really feel loyal enough to any of the aesthetics that I like but I
do want to start this process by collecting some images that represent what I would want my style
to look like because I think the problem with thrifting is that I go into it knowing what I'm
looking for but then as soon as I get there I'm just completely overwhelmed by all of the boxes
full of stuff that my idea of what I actually like just goes right out the window so I took
some time to search out some fashion inspiration I looked through my saved posts on Instagram my
Pinterest board for fashion YouTube channels like to the nines and steal the spotlight then I took
all of that and I used Photoshop to make mood boards and I literally printed them out so that
I could tape them up to my closet and see them and reference them as I was going through this process
it's interesting to analyze this almost like a scientist cuz I was like what patterns do we see
here I definitely saved lots and lots of loose oversized clothes I love loose clothing so much
I just feel the most comfortable and confident and like elegant and loose clothing comfort is
really really important to me and if in any way throughout the day I just feel like constricted
or like I have to keep adjusting my clothing it just really ruins my day so yeah a lot of loose
clothing I also noticed a lot of plaid but also some other simple patterns like cheetah print
stripes and whatever you would call this pattern in terms of colors lots of neutral Browns blues
grays black and white with a few colors thrown in there but they're still all pretty muted nothing
too bright so with all that in mind it was time to begin sorting this mess so for the first step
I basically just took everything out of my closet and started throwing it into one of three piles
definitely keep definitely don't keep or maybe for example I wear these jeans like every other
day so there are definite yes but then these striped pants for example I thrifted these so
I couldn't try them on before buying to know that they would literally crush my organs when I put
them on I was really trying to tune into my inner Marie Kondo intuition here and ask myself anything
spark joy I just kind of wanted to take the logic out of this part of the process and simply focus
on how the clothing may be filled oh hello there I was just taking a little break amongst my piles
of clothing so as you can see I now have three big piles of clothing I think it got easier to
put stuff in the definite no pile over there as I went along because I just got excited about the
whole process and about the idea of reducing my closet it's still a difficult thing to do
though for example I have this shirt it is cute my mom got it for my birthday I like the doodle
I like the trendiness of the lekha camera I've never tried a lekha camera I don't have enough
money for that and I'm a huge fan of puns but I don't think I need to explain how this is kind of
problematic I think I'm just gonna keep it and not wear it out in public just wear it at home which
feels like a waste for phase 2 I knew if I let myself think for too long I would start getting
sentimental and making excuses so I literally set a timer for myself and I couldn't spend more than
20 seconds trying on and deliberating each item in the Navy pile after that I had to just pick a pile
and honestly if I was still unsure about it if I was trying to make up reasons to keep it then it
probably meant that it belonged and the don't keep pile from the front it's a very modest turtleneck
right yeah this is a no okay everything is now in two piles it's this pile don't keep this is pile
do keep there's kind of different shapes which makes it hard to tell which one is bigger but
I feel like they're kind of half and half which was my original goal I actually also remembered
I have a few clothes downstairs it never ends so I'm gonna go and get those we're gonna sort
them we're gonna look at my sock door and then we're gonna look at shoes and then we'll be done
okay now we're gonna take care of these last two little miscellaneous categories first up instead
of a sock drawer I have a sock box sack box I really only ever use the top layer of this I don't
even know what's on the bottom when I was packing for Europe I packed like all of my good socks all
of my good bras all my good underwear and there was so much still left so I was like what is the
rest of this these are compression socks for what I had plantar fasciitis that was that was
a fun time after I sorted it all I wanted to try and make like a divider to make things easier to
find but then I gave up on that because spatial reasoning is not my forte so right away I knew
2 absolute must keeps wearing my white sneakers and my black sneakers these are just shoes that
I wear pretty much everyday and then these I wear it whenever I have to walk longer distances or do
any sort of exercise because they're super rigid and so they really keep my ankle stable I own two
pairs of heels and both of them I bought for prom because I never wear heels otherwise prom is fun
but it is really annoying in a clothing sense so I'm gonna keep the black ones because they're so
simple but the glitter ones are gonna have to go these I bought on Poshmark you've probably
seen something similar to this like you know Gucci loafers but not Gucci because I have a
budget so that's kind of the look I was going for but obviously that was not in the price range and
these don't really fit that even when I bought them I felt like I was settling like I wasn't
too thrilled about them so I don't even know why I bought them these sandals have actually had for a
really long time they look all smushed now but when you put them on they're like they're like
this I literally don't know where the other shoe is these heels are very simple minimal
we like minimal around here yeah I'm gonna keep these I don't really see myself wearing flats
in any situation anymore so there's like a huge wad of gum on one yeah so all the flats are just
buy buy these start to hurt my feet so quickly these were really nice to wear it around school
in the winter but I can't really imagine actually walking around in the snow in these and they're
too warm to wear not in the winter so yeah sorry - this man these are the shoes that were all the
time before I got these shoes basically I dumped this shoe for this shoe I think I'll keep them
they're like high quality structurally sturdy shoes and I'm a big fan of white sneakers so 1
to 6 shoes not bad and then I'm getting rid of 7 nice please enjoy this montage of all
or almost all of the clothing that I decided to keep most of what I ended up keeping did follow
towards that end of the color spectrum with the blues and the Browns the grays and whites I did
keep a few colorful items just for fun like my rainbow sweater I loved wearing that and
then my signature drifted Christmas sweater or my magical sparkly prom dress some of these are
just for practicality like a bunch of t-shirts workout clothes a raincoat in terms of pants
and shorts it's definitely a lot of denim some plaid stuff a lot of this was stuff that I was
already wearing all the time so obviously it made sense for me to keep it but some of these
items I didn't really appreciate until I actually tried them on while doing the decluttering and I
realized how versatile they were and how well they fit me so I feel like this process just made me
appreciate my closet more and now let's have a moment for all the clothes that were lost today
okay this will take way too long but basically the stuff I got rid of was too colorful it
didn't fit quite right didn't match with much else in my closet or I just plain didn't feel
excited about them and I want to feel excited about putting together outfits from what's in
my closet anytime i do any sort of decluttering project it takes at least two days which means
I have to spend at least one night sleeping in this mess this is very difficult for me my room
is never messy more than a few hours and time so I have to like breathe and get through this and
know that it'll be back to normal soon luckily though today is the fun part when I get to put
everything back in my closet and get rid of that pile we're gonna say goodbye to all that
stuff and we'll be done so when I did my room decluttering I did clean out the top part of
the closet it was just the closet closet part of it that was a mess so while my closet was
pretty much empty I also took the opportunity to just clean up whatever was on the closet floor I
also found some old pen pal letters which I completely forgot I even had so I have like
this shelving unit inside there and I just keep old product packaging and gift wrap and random
junk like that I put all my shoes in my closet honestly they'll probably all end up downstairs at
some point and then I started putting everything back by figuring out how I wanted to organize my
shelves so I tried to do like little categories for each spot with the rest of my clothing I have
always organized my closet in rainbow order so I just did the same thing I keep my sheets on
that bottom shelf next to the shoes there's my sock drawer that I cleaned up I like to hang
out my little scarf things and sunglasses up top did some tidying up cuz obviously my
room was a disaster at this point and I had a bunch of clothes hangers I didn't need anymore
finally I organized all the clothes into bags pack them up in the car and took a little field
trip to go and donate them I am so excited about this I'm just more excited to wear my clothes now
that the clothes that I do actually really enjoy wearing aren't in the way this whole process took
me like six ish hours we also have to keep in mind that I was filming if I wasn't filming I
probably could have done this in like two hours so it's definitely much less intense than the
entire room decluttering that I did but still very satisfying if you haven't seen that video yet and
you want to see more satisfying timelapses of me cleaning then you might want to check out that
video I've also included some links to thrifting tips in the description and yeah I think that's
everything thank you so much for watching this and go clean your own closet now bye