Do Organizers Ever Need To Organize Themselves?

Let’s give a big welcome to this weeks Inside Tips From The Pro’s guest contributor, Jodi Granok! Make sure you join in every Wednesday right here for another peek into a professional organizer’s home…

The answer, for me, is “YES!”

Today, my husband and I got up early, went out to breakfast, and then each of us went to our respective closets and did some weeding.

I like to think that my closet is pretty streamlined for the most part – and I was right. I am wearing most of the items in my closet regularly, which goes against the trend. The famous clothing statistic is that as a society, we wear 20% of our clothes, 80% of the time.

Apparently my weakness was in the hidden, and not the visible. My clothes are hanging out on racks in a walk-in closet, but I have several dresser drawers that were filled with clothes, some going back to my high school days. Given the fact that I am attending my 20th high school reunion in 2 weeks – it was time for this stuff to go!

So while my husband worked on weeding down his guilty pleasure (t-shirts), I faced my weakness (socks). I never wear socks unless there is snow outside, which is rare in St. Louis – yet I had about 50 pairs of socks!

I ended up filling a large laundry basket with shirts, sweaters, pants, even a dress or two. Plus lots of socks. Lots and lots of socks. My husband did a great job as well. He even found some old electronic items in his closet to donate!

Just to clarify – we are NOT donating our cat, Sugar – she just likes to be where all the action is!

This post originally posted on Judy’s blog, Organizing Magic.

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Jodi Granok, Professional Organizer and Speaker – Organizing Magic, LLC – Make Your Life Reappear!