Comments on: Decluttering your clothes is as easy as 123

By: Marcia Francois

Marcia Francois — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:45:32 +0000

Leah, well done on your weight loss!

Good for you on your mindset!

By: Marcia Francois

Marcia Francois — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:45:09 +0000

Yvonne, a clothing swap and then donating to a career shop is a GREAT idea!

By: Yvonne

Yvonne — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:38:16 +0000

I need to purge my clothes! The past 4 years, I’ve had to buy more formal wear and dressier clothes for events. Now that thingss are finally winding down, I can get rid of some of these clothes (some I can’t fit anymore from zillions of meals out, but did well considering I didn’t gain weight til this past year). Fortunately, I bought mostly seperates so I can still use some of them (sitll have formals to attend) but the dresses and gowns can be recyled.

Our group has had a clothing swap, so that has worked out well. Whatever was left over was donated to a career shop. I’m planning to set up another one in June.

By: LEAH

LEAH — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:38:56 +0000

I HAVE STARTED PURGING MY CLOTHES. I HAVE LOST 160LBS AND AM STILL LOSING. EVEN THOUGH THE CLOTHES ARE STILL GOOD AND COULD BE ALTERED I AM GIVING THEM AWAY. STARTING OVER WITH DIFFERENT STYLES AND TRYING TO GET OUT OF THE “FAT” MENTALITY.

By: Forgetfulone

Forgetfulone — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:14:12 +0000

I’ve already started purging. I’m going to have to replace some of my things, though. I just don’t like shopping anymore, though.

By: Marcia Francois

Marcia Francois — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:28:37 +0000

Jessica, CONGRATULATIONS!

I did much like you when pregnant – tossed the stuff that I didn’t love or didn’t look good before. I moved things around in my cupboard so I had all my maternity things on one shelf – I only bought jeans, 2 pairs of casual and 2 pairs of work pants so I didn’t have much.

If you want to box up, that’ll also work (I didn’t have the energy ) but one thing I will say – clearly label….

After the baby’s born, you can start getting back in your clothes again.

Mine are 8 months so I’ve given up on a lot of the clothes (impatient!) although people have said give it a year! A year! Thing is your actual body changes – I was at pre-preg weight but still couldn’t close some zips, etc

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:22:56 +0000

I’ve been having a hard time with the clothes decluttering lately–I’m 5 mo. pregnant so there’s all kinds of stuff that is starting to no longer fit right now…but after the baby comes back out, there’s a very good chance most (but likely not all) of those too tight clothes will suddenly fit again, so its tough to get rid of anything from the “doesn’t fit” category (though the “don’t love” and “didn’t fit *well* even when I wasn’t” categories are still fair game to toss).

Did you have any special strategies for decluttering your closet when you were pregnant with the twins? I’ve tried to start a few boxes of non-pregnant clothes and every time I go to wear something and it doesn’t fit, it goes in one of my non-pregnant boxes and in a few months I hope to go through the boxes and declutter as I re-introduce the “regular” wardrobe.