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Baltimore Parenting ExaminerParenting expert Mia Redrick is an author, lecturer, radio personality, personal coach and mother of three young children. She is a leader in the push for the self-care of mothers, and shares her wisdom on how to raise children without sacrificing personal needs.
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What's In Your Closet?
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by Mia Redrick, Baltimore Parenting Examiner
Do you have one of those closets that spills out clothing whenever you open it? Is it overflowing with clothes that you never wear? It’s really, really frustrating to either try to put away laundry or find things in a closet like that. It’s also a HUGE waste of time and energy.
Getting your closet in order isn’t as bad as it seems. Here’s a plan that will help you organize your closet and keep it that way!
1. Plan one uninterrupted day to tackle the closet and finish.
2. Begin by unloading the closet into three piles
--Clothes that you wear, like and are keeping
--Don’t keep
--Not sure
3. Put all the clothes that you are keeping in what should be your empty closet in an orderly fashion.
4. Go through the “not sure” pile again keeping in mind one and only one rule: Have I worn this in the past year?
5. Now, put the clothes you’ve worn back in the closet.
6. Separate the “don’t keep” pile into three categories:
--Clothes in mint condition that have a designer label: These can be sold at a resale shop for either credit or cash.
--Clothes in decent shape that do not have a designer label
These can be boxed/bagged and given to charity.
--Clothes that are in bad shape. Throw these out... nobody wants them! Charities have limited help and time to have to sort through unusable clothes that need to be discarded.
7. Now, keep two small bins in your closet and as you make new decisions or buy new clothes, toss the clothes you don’t want in the resale bin or charity bin.
8. As for Hubby’s one fourth of the closet (you do have the majority of the closet space, right?), ask him to do the same, but if he won’t... turn a blind eye to it and try
Live fully,
Mia
Check out my article today in The Baltimore Examiner at http://www.examiner.com/a-1365231~Mia_Redrick__Where_is_the_outrage_in_Baltimore_.html .
Topics: Organization , Closets
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