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Someone mentioned that they spend time each day looking through their clothes to find something to wear.

I admit I am very spoiled in that I work from home and work in sweats. I never look for what to wear. What I do is pick a new sweatshirt out of the pile of clean clothes by my bed, pick a pair of sweatpants, and put them on. I have several sweatshirts, all the same one really, in different colors. The sweatpants are all pretty much black. Maybe one grey.

And that's it So that takes maybe a minute of time between when I roll out of bed and head down to my computer.

How much time do you guys spend looking for / selecting clothes? How do you have them organized?

LOL Lisa, I can just see you doing all this - you have a wonderful way with words

I rotate my clothes in the closet that I have as I do need to one day buy more. With me losing weight, then getting laid off (lol) - I just got what I needed.

Rotating keeps me from wearing the same thing 2 days in a row as I am so not into paying attention at 5:30am when the alarm goes off

I wear just about the same thing every week. Like you Lisa, sweats and t-shirts. We live in a old house and only have 2 closets. So I have really paired down my clothes. I find that I wear the same thing over and over anyway so what do I need a ton of clothes for?

Connie -

I think it's a lovely, frugal, easy way to live, to wear comfy clothes and have a small number to rotate through.

Now that being said, the sweats for the winter, and the shorts / sport tops for the summer, are in a drawer in my bedroom. In addition to that, though, I *do* have a closet in the "music room" which has my tshirts, long dresses, and skirts in it. I wear those when I go out. So if I have to go out - let's say a networking dinner - I don't wear the sweats.

I don't really have a handle on my clothes yet, although things are getting better little by little.

Since I've been coming up with lots of new organizing ideas that work for me lately, I feel good that a solution will come this year.

The clothes thing is coming along. I put most of my better clothes on a metal rack that is not in the living area of my place. Then in my tiny house I just put a few hangers up from a small wardrobe area above my work desk (it's hard to describe all this). There are about a dozen hangers. I put the nice winter weight and long sleeved shirts up there.

When the season changes I can rotate these out to the not-living area. I realized I don't need all my clothes with me at all times. Duh!

The year-round daily wear stuff (pjs, sweats, teeshirts, pants) are all folded in some cubbies in here by the door.

Okee dokee, I just rotated out some more clothes. This is a really good way to see what I actually wear and what I don't.

I just unpacked some old clothes and found my stash of skirts! So I am keeping five of them and donating the rest.

One is a black long a line skirt with little white dots. One is a short skirt with a hanky hem in black and navy with a subtle raised design. One is long, straight and shimmery bronze/gold, and the last one is long flowy white with blue/brown 'vintage'-looking dots. One is a really 'pirate wenchy' flowy dark brown type with laces on it.

I don't even think i will wear all of those but will make an effort to try to incorporate them into my wardrobe. Maybe when it gets hot out again.

Oops. Just found another old cache of clothes - this time some stuff i really like. Pants, skirts, tops. I had no idea i still had these things. I don't even remember half of them. It's like christmas!

I also picked up some nice clothes for free with a voucher from Goodwill. Now I have way too many clothes again.

I will pick out some of the teeshirts and sweatpants and put then in the donations bag.

Dear Jilly -

That is awesome that you have clothes that make you happy. The more things in your life that bring you joy, the better!

Definitely putting away off season clothing can be a wonderful help in clearing clutter.

Spring is coming - almost time for me to put away the heavy sweatshirts I have ben wearing all winter. I have been pretty much cycling through the same five tops and pants for several months I have an easy fashion life working from home.