Chaos To Calm:
Make your closet a colorful oasis
What a difference the choice to colorize your closet can make. Someone will benefit from reading this, celebrate the change in their lives and have peace of mind. To you, I say welcome!
When walking through a clothes department of any establishment which caters to the masses, you will notice a few things. A neat and tidy place where it is easy to find areas of your interest. Seasonal items, gender dividers, material types on their own racks and such.
Maybe you never took notice of how clothing gets placed together or why that is so important. Sales, sales and more sales is your answer.
Organization makes for faster payments at any register.
Applying a store technique to a home closet? Will it benefit the average person? Why and How?
Some people intuitively coordinate
These people are everywhere. In your church, at your workplace, teachers, team players, store owners, celebrities, the list goes on. Coordination, for some, began from childhood.
In families, there may be one child who always coordinates every item of clothing and will never be caught with a hair out of place. This carries throughout a lifetime.
Some people acquire the taste of coordinating later in life, depending on their choice of profession, sociability, or even a love interest. None of this matters. I can just bet that the closets of these individuals are coordinated.
Once the formula is correct, the look is made easier. With enough money, one can and will hire a company to organize a closet, from shoes to purses, watches to rings, and more. The toughest part is the clothing.
Let’s make it easier and less costly
Do this once and follow a weekly ritual of standing back and allowing your own eyes to guide you.
- Take all clothing out of your closet
- Sort things not needed away to some handy bags to be donated, discarded or sold
- With all remaining items find the yellow ones and put them together
- Next the orange outfits
- Then the red
- Green follows the red
- Blue behind green
- Tan next
- Brown
- Black
- Last is White
Hang these in the order just discussed. Work the shoes in a likewie order, purses the same.
If you have a mind to, within each group, start with sleeveless, short sleeves, 3/4 inch sleeves, long sleeves. Only if you have the mind to…
In the back of the closet are sweaters (colorized), lightweight coats, heavy coats (all colorized).
The only thing you need to remember is, adding back freshly laundered items (weekly) is easy because you see where they belong. Over time you have created a new habit.
Let me know in the comments if you already have a system. Would this system work for you?
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