The Laundry Series 1.2: Have Less Clothes (2)

Here’s Tip #2 for the Have Less Clothes recommendation.

#2: Try reverse-decluttering.

If you can’t and won’t throw clothes away, try this: Take your next basket of clean laundry, or your next suitcase after a trip, and hang all those clothes in one area (ideally, on their own wardrobe rack.) Call that your “active wardrobe” and try wearing only those clothes for several weeks. You may add pieces from your main wardrobe if necessary, but only on the day you’re going to actually wear them, and only as needed. After several weeks, lock up the rest of your clothes and make this active wardrobe your new normal. (If, later, you need to go shopping for more clothes——well, you’ve got the key

to the store, my dear.)