One of my major goals this year has been to make de-cluttering a permanent part of my life. Each month I can slowly see more and more progress in the house. In January hubby and I cleared out our wardrobe – all my clothes that didn’t fit me but that I couldn’t bear to throw away went into a wardrobe in the spare room. Slowly I have realized that my clothes in the other wardrobe aren’t that important after all and every few weeks a few have been going out in the charity clothes bag or to jumble sales. Last week I bit the bullet and got my sister–in-law around to do some ‘shopping’ as she is the size I am no longer. Off went my beautiful tops, jackets and trousers – some from my days of shopping in London and Paris (when I was single and carefree and smaller). I am much happier now knowing someone is making use of my clothes rather than having them taking up space in the wardrobe and as a bonus my sister-in-law gets to update her wardrobe for free. It is such a lovely feeling to walk into the bedroom wardrobe every day and find our clothes so easily without wasting time – we can even take visitors into it to show it off! As a money bonus we also now realize that we don’t need to invest money in more wardrobe storage space – we have more than enough room, the problem was too much stuff. If you find you just can’t give something away because of the memories you can always take a photo of it or perhaps turn it into something else if you are good at sewing.
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