I’m in a de-cluttering frame of mind. It might be because I’m full of post-holiday resolutions or just because Summer is coming, and it feels like time to shed the old skin and simplify things.
I know that if I pull everything out of the wardrobe and try and do it all at once I’ll get bored and end up with clothes all over the bedroom for a month, so this week I’ve been trying a new experiment. It’s simple and so far working! I have at least 4 wardrobes full of clothes and shoes (and that’s without the stuff in the drawers). I’ve got things I don’t like anymore, things that don’t suit me and lots of things that don’t fit me. Yet they are still in my wardrobes. I generally cycle the same 8 or so (black) outfits around for work each day and then wear my sloppy clothes at the weekend – so my new experiment is that I have to wear something different everyday. The plan is that if I take something out of the wardrobe and reject it three times then it goes. I figure that if I ever get slim enough to fit half of it again I’d probably want some new stuff anyway.
Not sure how strict I’ll be able to be – but it would be nice to get rid of the things I don’t wear and make some space. Also, I have had some nice compliments this week on wearing colours I wouldn’t normally wear, so let’s see…
“Don’t own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.”
― Wendell Berry