24-The number of months that cannot go by since the last time you’ve worn any one article of clothing in your closet. If that many months have gone by without you touching anything (skirt, shoes, shirt, pants) throw it out! (I can already tell, I must have been in cleaning mode when I wrote this because only Cleaning-Mode Me would jump so quickly to throwing something out. I’d recognize that tone and urgency to get things to the trash can anywhere. So maybe throwing it out’s a little harsh. Maybe, trying it on the moment you see an article that you haven’t worn in that long, and seeing what you think about it.
On this last day of closet clean-out week, the spiff is here to remind you to throw pieces out that you haven’t touched in 24 months.
If you’ve forgotten about it, that’s one thing and even after that give yourself a time frame (how about 6 months!) and if you don’t wear it in that next six months then it’s time for it to MOVE ON.
If you can’t think of the last time you’ve worn an item (hmm another good reason to chuck it), then ask an observant friend. Believe it or not there are gifted, beautiful people out there that are hyper aware of what people wear and I’m sure they’d be more than happy to lend you their memory (make sure they’re not in cleaning mode, and make sure you haven’t pissed them off lately).
Keeping pieces around in your closet for that long just takes up much needed space. Chances are in the past 24 months you’ve had multiple events come up that you could have worn it to, AND by now it’s probably not something you want to bust out, with it being, “so 24 months ago.”
Yeah, I’m going to go back to the “try it on” thing. If you haven’t worn it in that long, then by trying it on it’s like finding it new all over again, which means you should know instantly if you like it still or not. If it’s something you stopped wearing because it didn’t fit right, then maybe it does now! Or maybe, just maybe 24 months ago you didn’t have the right pieces to compliment it and now you do!
Either way, don’t go sprinting to the garbage can.
We’re just here to give you some tough closet love.
Happy weekend!