Hey, what's up
You have reached day two of the thirty day simplify your life challenge
If you don't know what the thirty day simplify your life challenge is
I will leave a link down in the discription below
for you to get some more information on it
And I'm kicking off the decluttering by
decluttering your wardrobe
because decluttering your clothes is kind of easier and it's kind of fun
Hopefully it will put you on a little bit of a high
so that you're ready for the next two weeks of decluttering
So the first thing to do if you're going to declutter you wardrobe
is to create some guiding questions
to help you when you are decluttering
Some examples of guiding questions are things like:
Does this fit into my colour palette?
For me my color palette is black, grey, white...
nude?
I know I'm so basic
So write down some guiding questions that are sort of specific to you
Specific to your personal style to help you for when you're decluttering your wardrobe
My questions are pretty simple so I'm going with:
Does this fit my colour palette?
Does this piece go with anything else in my wardrobe?
Does this fit properly and is it comfortable?
And then, does this piece makes me feel good when I wear it?
This is an in-the-challenge email you guys would have recieved
but I also put sort of a goal for myself
so my goal is to have a wardrobe containing pieces that I love and wear regularly
so by the end of the challenge if I can look at that and be like
yeah, that's how I feel then I know that today has been a sucess
so the next step is to take all of your clothing out of it's normal space
so these are all of my clothes
I've got all of my jumpers my dresses and my tops basically in here
but I also have a second place where I store all of my clothes
which is in here, this holds all of my pants and my skirts and then my shorts
I'm going to chuck everything on my bed
Next up, sort your clothing into categories. So chunk your clothing down into the categories they fit into
I'm going to put a big list of categories above my face on the screen
doing it this way it's really it's really good because it sorts of breaks things down into chunkable steps
so you can take it one category at a time
when you're decluttering don't forget about the little things, like your socks, your underware,
like your jewelry, your shoes, everything
so, I'm just going to go through all my clothes, just chunk them up into sections
where I can just take it one section at a time
so these are all of of the shoes that I own
and I can confidently say that I wear every single pair of shoes
these ones only come out when I need to go in public showers,
like festivals or camping
so this is my bed covered in all of my clothes
these are all of my jumpers, coats, everything like that
I've got all of my tops, singletes there
I've got my playsuits
So once you've chuncked your clothing down into those categories,
you can consider them against your guiding questions
so pick up your piece of clothing, ask your guiding questions,
and if you find that a piece of clothing doesn't fit into your guiding questions
be ruthless, and let that piece of clothing go
some super-quick a-halfway-progress-shirts, the lightning is going to get terrible soon
because it's getting dark
this is the pile of clothes that I'm keeping
and this is the pile I'm getting rid of
so far my get-rid-of pile is acually bigger than my keep pile
okay, back to it
I forgot, I'm keeping these too, they weren't on the floor
okay
now...
So I'm basically done,
but I'm going to show you what it looks like now
looks kind of even, so
this is my to go pile and this is my to keep pile
as well as those on the bed there
I'm keeping all of my shoes
because I 110% now that I use all of them
After you've gone through all of your clothing and you've been ruthless with all your guiding questions,
return the clothes that you want to keep to their designated space
I preached it before, and I will preach it until the end of time,
folding your clothes vertically is the best way to store them
in particular with shorts and with pants and with skirts
I find that they're the best type of clothing to actually fold vertically
I put all the clothes that I'm keeping back into their radicated drawers
so we've got this drawer
there's not too much difference here
and then this is my wardrobe
I feel like this makes me so happy
so I'm donating by one and a half for two bags of clothing
I'm going to donate my coat hangers as well
I didn't realize how much I needed that
like final kick of minimizing my wardrobe
I thought I was like in a really good level
but looking at it I'm just like "yesss look at thaat"
it's beautiful
so beautiful
so anything that needs to be discarded it's clothing that's probably
too poor quality to go to a thrift shop or too damaged
get rid of it
and anything that you need to donate, bag it all up
take it to the boot of your car
and if you can, take it straight to the thrift store
for the very list set a reminder in your calendar
for when you're going to take the clothes to the thrift shop
And after you've done all those steps
you can sit down, celebrate how freaking fabulous you are
for even getting to this day in the challenge
It's going to be really hard for some people to stick it out in this challenge
but the fact that you even started it, like,
go you, you're fabulous,
I'm so proud of you
treat yourself to some tea, some coffee, perhaps some wine, whatever you're into
you deserve it, and I will see you tomorrow for day three
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