Minimize Your Stuff and Gain Organized Space in Your Closet!

It's easy to get unorganized, especially when it comes to your wardrobe. When you step into your walk-in closet or open the doors to reach-in closets throughout your home, do you just sigh with defeat at the mess on the floor, shelves and rods? We have five solutions that will help you better organize your closets by minimizing your belongings!

Take everything out of the closet you're cleaning out and immediately get ride of what you haven't used in over a year. This is the best starting point to minimize your belongings. Check out this article on freeing yourself from stuff! Don't hold onto anything for "just in case" reasons. If an occasion arises, you can always find something similar to what you thought you wanted to wear.

To expedite the minimization process, take all your clothes out of the closet that you think you'd like to keep and try everything on. If it doesn't fit exactly right, get rid of it! We all tend to keep items just in case we lose ten pounds or because we love the shoes and can wear them for twenty minutes...if it isn't comfortable, why keep it?

Yes, you love that Senor Frog's t-shirt from your cruise, but how many oversized t-shirts or other items are you keeping and not using because of sentimental reasons? If something is extremely difficult to get rid of and it is made of cloth, you can upcycle many materials into cool handbags or pillowcases.

The point is, get it out of the closet if you aren't using it, especially if you're just holding onto it for memories sake. Your wedding dress can be donated, you have the pictures of a lifetime! Read about Letting Go of Sentimental Items and find out why it's so important to do so when minimizing. Biggest lesson to learn: an unused item that you are keeping just for sentimental reasons, may actually be useful to someone else that is less fortunate, donate what you can and sell the rest!

You probably find yourself getting ready and always having the same go-to outfit. Maybe jeans and a t-shirt or a pullover sweater with a nice skirt is your go to. Find out what your wardrobe "uniform" is and keep the items you love most. You probably don't need thirty cardigans, one for each day of the week should do. Trim down your wardrobe and check out these closet organization tips.