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!
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I guess that as a Professional Organizer I can finally admit, yes I need to reorganize too! Thanks for the post.
Yes, our needs change over time and we need to maintain our systems to keep them working for us!
Great job sharing transparency in the life of an organizer. I LOVE it. This really goes to show that organizing requires a small amount of maintenance, no matter how organized you are!
@juliebavi