My "Minimalist" Closet
By: Claudia Manganiello
I began my journey for a more “minimalist” closet by looking at other guides online, but I found them all TOO extreme. I didn’t want to get rid of clothes I like and use, and certainly did not want to end up needing to buy more.
So I kept:
-all I need for each season
-my absolute favorite clothes
-enough to rotate for special occasions
-MOST IMPORTANTLY, enough so that I don’t have to do laundry too often.
I got rid of:
-all clothes with holes
-any that I haven’t used in a year
-any I don’t like/don’t fit me or my style anymore
-anything I’m holding onto just because they’re memories.
This was hard. I went through my clothes two or three times, getting rid of more each time. It was hard because some part of me felt like I was throwing away money. But I realized I just had to think of it as I got my money’s worth and someone else would find it much more useful now.
By the end, I got so tired of having so much stuff that I think it’s going to take alot for me to buy something new. I felt a weight lifted when I filled up 6 LARGE trash bags of clothes to donate!! I feel like I got rid of as much as I could but I hope in the future I can slim down even more.
This is everything I own now: