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Cleaning Out Your Clothes Closets
by
Rachel Paxton
Keeping your wardrobe up to date is easy if you start by sorting
through all your unwanted clothing and donate it to charities.
| I'm always looking for people to give my daughter's outgrown
clothes to. Every two months or so my daughter and I sort through
her clothes and make one pile for charities, and another pile for
the consignment store.
I've found to keep your child's wardrobe up to date (and your own
for that matter), you have to regularly go through and weed out
the outgrown and unwanted clothes. If you don't you just end up
with closets and bags, and often even piles of unwanted clothing
that will never be worn again. |
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After a while it just gets to the point where you don't know where to start.
Making cleaning out your clothes closet a regular routine will save you a lot of time
and energy later down the road and even help you to keep your wardrobe up to date. It takes us an
hour at the most to go though our clothes and sort them out. When you do this
regularly you'll find you don't need as many pieces of clothing you maybe
thought you did, and you actually wear and enjoy the clothing you do have. My
winter and summer clothing both fit into half of our small closet, and I no longer
find my family's outgrown and unwanted clothing stored all around the house.
So what can you do with unwanted clothes? The easiest thing to
do is donate them to charities. Good Will, Salvation Army, women's shelters, and other
charities are always looking for donations, and they will often come right to your
front door to pick up your unwanted clothing for you.
If your clothing is still in really good condition and you want to take the time,
you can consign your in-season clothing and make a few extra dollars. Check
your local Yellow Pages for consignment store listings.
I saw a great idea on TV that I thought would be fun to try sometime. A group of
women got together in someone's home and brought their unwanted clothing to
share with each other. Someone took the time to organize the clothing and
display it attractively, and then the women got together and took home their
pick of clothing. They could take whatever they liked as long as they had
contributed some of their own clothing. It was neat how the event was
organized. The women had make-shift dressing rooms where they could try on
clothing and refreshments were served while the women visited with one
another. It looked like a lot of fun and a great way to update your wardrobe. This
can also be done with children's clothing and toys.
The next time you look into your family's closets and see even one article of
clothing that hasn't been worn in the past six months, maybe it's time to sort
through them and pass some of the clothing along. The more organized your
closets are, the more easily you and your family will be able to find the clothing
you truly love to wear.
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