3 Quick Tips To Less Overwhelm In Your Closet
Do you ever open your closet to get dressed and immediately feel overwhelmed? If your clothes are all over the place and you have no idea where to find the pants you wanted to wear, this is for you.
Organizing your closet doesn’t have to take you all weekend. With the right steps, you can feel more calm in less time than you might think. Why is this important? An organized closet means getting dressed quickly. It means you can leave the house wearing something other than yoga pants because you actually know WHAT your options are, and WHERE your options are.
Here’s where to start:
1. Take out everything that isn’t clothing related. Suitcases, notebooks, that old box of baby clothes. The only thing that should be in your view when you’re getting dressed are your clothes. Take the rest out and find another place to keep it all.
This matters because if you open your closet to get dressed and the first thing that grabs your attention is that bag of stuff you keep forgetting to donate, you feel bad about it, and that negative feeling trickles into how you feel when you get dressed. Keep the items in your view specific to getting dressed, and the whole process will be off to a better start.
2. Put everything on matching hangers. The visual impact of mismatched hangers is immediate chaos. Our brains like order, and disorganization can reduce our ability to focus. Matching hangers will streamline the view, and make it easier to focus on what you’re doing.
3. Organize your clothes by color, and type. Here’s how: put your clothes into like categories (shirts, pants, dresses, jackets), then organize within those categories by color. I like to do white, black, gray, followed by the rainbow. The next time you’re looking for a green shirt, you’ll know exactly where it should be.
If you want to take this a step further, you can organize within your categories by sleeve length or skirt length. So your shirts would go from tank top to long sleeve, and your dresses & skirts would go from mini to maxi. Again, having a system in place makes it easier to find what you’re looking for. It also makes putting away your laundry easier because everything has a specific home.
Staying organized will help you have an easier time getting dressed, hands down. If the shirt you’re looking for isn’t in its designated spot, it’s probably in the laundry. Small steps are the best way to make real change within our habits.
Take a picture of your closet right now, try these 3 steps, and take a picture of it when you’re done. Notice the difference between the before and after. Pay attention to how you feel the next time you open your closet to get dressed. What differences do you notice?
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