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Cleaning Out Your Closet – Version 2: The Functional Method

I'm SO happy that so many of you found Tuesday's Color Method to closet decluttering useful! When I head off into these new blog directions, I'm never quite sure how things will be received; my head is so full of ideas that every now and then I have to toss one out there and cross my fingers!

For many of us, we've been shopping in our favorite color palette for so long that the Color Method doesn't really generate a lot of obvious things to declutter. Thus, I thought that analyzing our wardrobes based on what role each garment plays in an outfit might be helpful.

First up, here's the perfectly a-okay, fine, nothing wrong with these clothes wardrobe with which we're starting. Please bear in mind that if you have a closet like this and it ... View the Post

03.09.17 55 Comments

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How to Clean Out Your Closet – the Color Method

How DO you clean out closets? Hold things in your hand and see if they spark joy? With all the respect in the world to Marie Kondo, I'm NEVER going to feel joy from a black tee shirt, but having a handful of them is really important to being well dressed, in my life. So I keep looking...

(in all fairness, when you're talking about decorative or sentimental objects, her method is perfect...)

I've got a couple of ideas - let's try these out.

First, let's start with a fairly normal wardrobe. I think this is 50 pieces; I just wandered about the Uniqlo site and chose pieces without any real pattern or plan:

Let's get 2 things clear right from the beginning: There's not one single thing wrong with any of these clothes, and they could all be ... View the Post

03.07.17 56 Comments

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