The third week of March is National Clean Out Your Closet Week.
In the spirit of doing this I started to attack my wardrobe this week.
You might chuckle at what I found:
I had bought two pairs of faded cropped jeans that appear identical. There was only one difference: the inside label said skinny on one pair and girlfriend on the other. Otherwise you couldn’t tell them apart.
The trick is to keep on hand only two at the most spare pairs of jeans. You don’t need to have 5 or 6 pairs of jeans just in case you want to paint your apartment.
I’m an artist, yet even I drew the line. I kept only three “extra” pairs of jeans to use for my painting projects.
You can store off-season clothes in under-bed storage boxes. Not anything else under the bed please.
I have an advanced near-encyclopedic knowledge of Feng Shui principles:
Storing papers and documents under the bed can result in restless sleep.
Closet doors should be solid not a curtain you pull across to open. The closet door shouldn’t have a mirror on it.
The bed if you have a partner shouldn’t have a mirror facing it in front of the bed. This can signal adultery or a third party entering the relationship.
These 3 tips are all Feng Shui guidelines that I think make sense.
For off-season storage:
The Container Store is selling at a reduced cost their Cedar Stow storage bags.
They’re cedar-lined canvas storage bags that fit under the bed. They are a Green choice of storage.
I’ve bought 4 Cedar Stow storage bags at this reduced cost.
Plastic has health issues linked to it. It isn’t environmentally friendly.
While you’re not supposed to store other things under the bed I have gotten away with storing clothes in under-bed boxes.
More in the next blog entry about clearing out the clutter at mid-life.
Sometimes you have to say goodbye to the past and move forward.
A wardrobe clean-out can be the start of freeing up space to bring in new things and new people and new experiences.
Left of the Dial 