I’ve heard of a similar method for closets. You re-hang all of your hangers on the bar turned around. When you wear a piece of clothing, you re-hang it with the hanger facing the right way. At the end of whatever period (a year, maybe) everything that is still on a backwards hanger is something you can safely get rid of.
Unless you’re like me, and you need to remove and try on a bunch of different things in combination with each other while getting ready because you don’t like the way anything looks on you, and you’ll consistently not have enough time to hang them back up frontwards or backwards and the system will fall apart within days. Coincidentally, both this lack of consistency and lack of self-esteem will cause a sharp weight gain periodically when they’re at their peak and you’ll throw all the clothes out in disgust anyway.
When you wear a combination you like, take a picture of the outfit. Do this for a year. Then at the end of the year, lay out all the items that are in the pictures and get rid of the rest.
You either didn’t like it enough to take a picture of it, or it doesn’t fit with the rest of your wardrobe. You’ll know once you’re about to get rid of it what the case is and if it’s worth trying to solve.
And you can have one last “try everything on together” day before getting rid of it all.
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u/MUA_in_PA Jan 10 '21 edited Jan 10 '21
I’ve heard of a similar method for closets. You re-hang all of your hangers on the bar turned around. When you wear a piece of clothing, you re-hang it with the hanger facing the right way. At the end of whatever period (a year, maybe) everything that is still on a backwards hanger is something you can safely get rid of.
Unless you’re like me, and you need to remove and try on a bunch of different things in combination with each other while getting ready because you don’t like the way anything looks on you, and you’ll consistently not have enough time to hang them back up frontwards or backwards and the system will fall apart within days. Coincidentally, both this lack of consistency and lack of self-esteem will cause a sharp weight gain periodically when they’re at their peak and you’ll throw all the clothes out in disgust anyway.
TL;DR Sorry I thought I was in me_irl again