If you feel like you can’t find what you want to wear every morning as you go into your walk-in wardrobe, it might be time to start streamlining your closet. By having fewer things in your closet, you might find that you have less stress around getting dressed, caring for your clothes, and keeping your space organized.
To help you learn how this can be done, here are three tips for streamlining your closet.
Only Keep What You Actually Wear
As you take a look at your current closet, your first task should be determining what you want to keep and what you want to donate. And while there might be some items in your closet that you feel compelled to keep, what you should really be thinking about is what items you actually wear.
There’s no point in keeping clothes in your closet if they’re clothes that you’re not likely to wear. So if you have a few favorite pieces that you love to wear, make sure you put those in a pile meant for clothes that you’ll keep. And if you have clothes that you have never worn or don’t like to wear for one reason or another, those are the clothes that you should start with when donating and cleaning out space in your closet.
Create A Rotating Capsule Wardrobe
To help you have a smaller number of clothes that you need to deal with and choose from, you should try to create a capsule wardrobe.
With a capsule wardrobe, you choose 30 to 40 pieces of clothing that you mix and match to create all of your outfits. Ideally, everything should go well with each other piece so that you can never go wrong putting outfits together. Then, after one season is over, you swap out your current capsule wardrobe for the capsule wardrobe you’ve put together for the next season. Then, when you’re in the middle of a season, you commit not to buying new clothes and just working with what you have.
Purchase Fewer, Higher-Quality Items
If you choose to go with the option of a capsule wardrobe, you’ll want to focus your attention more on higher-quality items that will last you for an entire season and even that same season for a few years. And because you won’t be buying new clothes all of the time and just adding clothes on top of clothes in your closet, you’ll likely be able to afford buying more expensive pieces that will be of a higher quality. So while you’ll have fewer pieces to choose from, you’ll have better pieces to wear on a regular basis.
If you want to streamline your closet, consider using the tips mentioned above to help you learn a few ways that this can be done.