Clothes Cow

or, I Have Nothing To Wear

I have a problem with clothes. I like to buy them, but I don't like to try them on. As long as they look good on the rack I can imagine they'll look good on me. And then I get them home and every so often I'll put them on when I'm in a pinch to wear something cute. And then I take them off when I realize they look horrible on me.

Mostly, they just take up space.

I also have way too many work shirts, to the point that if I wait until I'm out of clean shirts to do laundry (which I usually do) I end up spending an entire day on it.

That ends today. Here's what I started with.



Everything I own, laundered and hung. Then I tried everything on. Unless it was a t-shirt, everything got tried on and evaluated. Everything that didn't fit went into a tub. The tub has an expiration date of six months. Anything that doesn't fit in six months is going to Goodwill. I can do a freshness check in three months. A lot of the stuff just barely didn't fit, so if it does when I check again it can be re-added to the wardrobe. Probably seems like a long time, but most of the stuff is jeans and cute slogany t-shirts that I really like and want to be able to wear someday. So that cull gave me this.



Next I went through and culled work shirts. I had 25 work shirts and 18 of them were UPS branded. UPS buys from different t-shirt vendors, so some of the shirts didn't fit well and those went. Almost all of the light colored shirts had general UPS stains and what I call boob dirt, which is two obvious dirt circles on the front. Those went, too. I ended up keeping 10 work shirts, which isn't bad. Two weeks worth. The rest will either be restructured (I like the logos on some of them, just not the fit) or turned into rags. Here is after the work shirt cull.



And here's what I was left with after I removed all the leftover clothes hangers and organized the clothes by type.



Pretty huge difference, huh? Hopefully it will make finding something to wear easier because I won't be pointlessly trying on a bunch of too-small clothes and it'll make laundry day a lot easier. And every time I eyeball that tub full of cute-but-not-on-me-(yet) clothes, it'll remind me of what I'm trying to do here.