7 Tips to Help Sort Out Your Wardrobe Once And For All

If you’re like me, then your wardrobe is a total mess. In fact, the last thing I want to do is tidying up. Like ever. But, as more of us are staying at home for the moment, now is pretty much the perfect time to get into the organisation zone. And with a little music in the background and focus, it can be done. I have faith in myself and you.

Heard of the Marie Kondo method? No? Where have you been?! Kondo’s bestselling book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, has a few simple steps to declutter your home. The best place to start? Your wardrobe, obviously.

1. Divide the tidying up into categories, not rooms

This way you will be taking care of all of your clothes at once. Bring them all into one room and make sure everything is visible. (It’s recommended to have most of your clothes washed so you’re actually sorting all or most of it out in one go, but this is difficult to achieve when you’re a busy bee).

2. How do you feel about your clothes?

When sorting through your wardrobe, it’s a good idea to make two piles: the pieces you love and want to keep, and the pieces you either forgot even existed or no longer are of any value to you. It’s important to be wearing clothes that mean something to us; be it they provoke a memory, they make us feel confident and comfortable, etc. Just think, ‘do your clothes bring you happiness?’

3. Out with the old, in with the new

Once you’ve finished dividing your clothes into two piles, decide what you want to do with the discarded items and bag them up. I normally take my unwanted pieces to either a vintage or charity store. It can be hard to part with your clothing, but nostalgia is not your friend, and remember, all of the clothes you’re giving away have created room for new clothes!!

4. Fold, don’t hang

After finishing up with your unwanted pile, you can get to work on the clothes you’re going to keep. I normally start with smaller pieces and work my way up to the bigger ones. It’s important to take advantage of the space your wardrobe has, folding most of your clothes will allow room for more and will leave it looking less cluttered. Leave your shirts, dresses and finer wear for the hangers. You could even think about organising your wardrobe by occasions and needs that work for you: think special events, work, loungewear and hot dates.

5. Create a closet you love waking up to

They say clothes, shoes and accessories are girls’s best friends, well what better way to feel great than opening up your own wardrobe and being able to see everything you own? By having a wardrobe that’s neat and tidy, you’ll get inspired by all of the different possible outfits you could wear for the day in one place.

6. Maintenance

By sorting out your wardrobe in this way, you are making it much easier to maintain a clear wardrobe space. Once everything is where it belongs, it will be easier to follow that same structure when putting washed clothing back or new buys! So stick to it, and keep the organisation skills flowing.

7. Style

Having created a wardrobe just how you like it, it’s your space, even if you don’t have the biggest closet in the world, it’s still all about you. By being able to see all that you own and can put on your back, you are giving yourself the space to evolve, allowing yourself to see what you have, what you could have and possible changes you could make to the way you dress.

With that said, that’s a wrap!

Before moving onto the next task that is waiting for you, take a step back and see for yourself how great everything looks! All in piles, organised to your liking. It’s a great feeling to have everything in its place and visible, ‘a cluttered desk, is a cluttered mind’ as they say. Just think of all the new things you can fit in your new wardrobe now!

Team SF x

Source: One Kings Lane – Marie Kondo (The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing).