I posted on Love Shak, Baby earlier this week about doing a massive bunch of laundry. I posted that Monday, and here it is Friday and I am still doing laundry. I wrote in that post that I thought we had too much clothing. I didn’t know the half of it.

Since Monday I have gotten rid of 6 kitchen sized trash bags full of clothing. While doing the laundry, I hung a bag on the laundry room door for getting rid of clothing that looked bad, didn’t fit, or otherwise needed to exit my house.

Today, I’m nearly finished with the laundry, so I went into all our closets and got rid of tons of stuff. I looked at the clothes and thought, "Do I feel good when I wear this?" If I didn’t, in the bag it went. Also, I got rid of a great deal of items that I have several of. for example, I had 7 white button up shirts. Why? Who really needs seven white button up shirts? Not me, so in the bag it went.

I also got rid of every single pair of overalls I own, except one pair. I got rid of many, many pairs of jeans. I don’t know why, but I have a problem with hoarding bluejeans. Out they went. Once I had all the clothing I no longer wanted out of the closet, I pulled all the unused hangers out. I was surprised- I have a ton of hangers. Hangers have always been a scarce commodity in our house, but they won’t be anymore. I have enough hangers to hang up half the clothing in the state of Rhode Island, I’m convinced.

Now that I have the clothing pared down to a minimum, I have new rules. If I get a new item of clothing, one item of old clothing must go. If I try something on and hate it, it goes in the "I don’t like this" box. I think if I keep to these rules, I will be able to keep the clothing clutter down. That’s one less thing to have to worry about!