Spring Cleaning Before Fall

Okay okay.. I know it isn’t Spring anymore, but who says its has to be just to do some Spring cleaning?

The decision

My beautiful friends Amber and Mary were cleaning out their closets and doing capsules! I have been telling my husband for a while that I wanted to do that so I decided to do it too!

I would get rid of clothes here and there, but I have never gotten rid of so many clothes at one time. In the end I had two giant trash bags full, stretching at the seams.

When I made the decision to do it, I gave myself a few days to prepare. I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t going to back out of it.

The Attachment

The reason it took me so long to commit to something like this was because I was emotionally attached. A lot of my clothes carried memories. They also carried hopes or comforts. Hopes that I might be able to fit into it one day. Comfort from hiding the parts of my body I didn’t like.

“Maybe I will wear it one day when I have lost some weight.”

“This has a few holes in it, but this goes with everything.”

And so on, and so on.

Some shirts I wore a lot when my husband I were dating – yeah, that long ago.

It was hard to let the emotional attachment go. Luckily, I prepped myself emotionally and then did it quickly when the time came. That let me do it without talking myself back into something I knew I was never going to wear again.

The Process of Spring Cleaning

I started by taking all my clothes off the hangers and out of  my drawers and laid it in a big pile on the bed. Then I put it in two piles on the floor. One pile was for clothes I wanted to keep and the other was things that I could get rid of.

If it didn’t fit, if it had holes in it, or I didn’t wear it often – it belonged in the pile to get rid of. Like I said before – I had to do this step fast. If I thought about it too much, I would reason with myself and try to keep it when I knew I would’t wear it.

After the piles had been made, I bagged up the “give-aways” and separated the “keep” pile. If you want, you can have a pile for each season, but it worked for me to only make two.

I made a pile for Spring/Summer and a pile for Fall/Winter. I boxed up my Spring/Summer clothes and hung up and put away the rest.

The weight

After the seasons were separated, I noticed I was missing a few staples. Luckily, after the long process, that meant I could go shopping for a few items I needed!

I loooooovveeee this post from Sincerely Jenna Marie – this showed me what I was missing and what I could go shopping for if it was something I was missing! Here are some of my favorites, too:

I thought I would be nervous and wishing I had some of my clothes back – but I don’t at all! A weight has been lifted and it feels so so so good! I love that I can walk into my closet and be excited about my clothes again! And when spring comes around again, I will put all my Fall stuff away and take out spring! It will be like a whole new closet to get excited about again!

If you have been thinking about doing this – stop thinking and do it! Just make sure you have a friend there with you to help you and keep you from keeping things you shouldn’t. I know that if my friend wasn’t there, I would not have gotten rid of everything that I did. I might have not even done it! Thanks Amber 😉

Now get out there and do some ” Spring Cleaning! “