With 9 ways to get rid of clothes from your closet, you can easily accomplish this task. You will be able to keep only what you truly enjoy wearing.
With this process, you will find out how to decide what clothes to keep, how to design your closet, and where to put clothes you remove from your closet.
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How Do I Decide What Clothes to Keep?
Certainly, do not keep items in your closet that you haven’t worn in two years. After two years of collecting dust, these items need to find a new home, a new owner, a new purpose, or a trash bag.
Additionally, get rid of clothes that are not fitting you the right way. If they are baggy or too tight or just downright uncomfortable, let them go. Wave goodbye and don’t look back!
Furthermore, you deserve to be happy and to be confident in your clothes. If you look at a piece with even the slightest hesitation, it doesn’t belong in your closet. Don’t give it a second thought.
Design Your Own Closet
Think of your closet as your retreat. A place designed by you, for you, and that it above all, works for you. This place does not have anyone that is going to force you to wear anything you don’t want to. No one is going to make you put on that horrible itchy sweater and that shirt that has those annoying buttons behind your neck.
Moreover, no one is going to make you wear that really ugly blouse you thought might look good in the right lighting ten years ago. Just toss it!
Avoid keeping these items because they are just taking up precious space that could be room for pieces that really show your unique style.
Only keep items that you can see yourself actually wearing in real situations. Items that instantly compliment you, “Wow! You look STUNNING!”
You are stunning and you shouldn’t keep anything that makes you feel or look otherwise.
So go on and get rid of clothes without any regrets!
Follow these 9 ways to take out these clothes without any worries or concerns.
How to Get Rid of Clothes
Repurpose Sentimental Clothes
Clothes can have emotional connections and can be sentimental. When this happens, it is even more difficult to part ways with these items.
Perhaps you have been given your grandmother’s winter coat that she wore every year on Christmas Eve or your grandfather’s favorite sweatshirt that you can’t imagine giving away.
For these types of items, you shouldn’t be forced to remove these from your life completely.
Furthermore, there are ways to preserve these pieces and still make room in your closet.
Way 1: Turn Your Clothes into a Pillow
On Etsy, there is a shop that creates pillows out of your sentimental clothing items.
You just send your items off to the shop and you get them back as these precious pillows to keep forever.
Way 2: Create a Shadow Box
An extra deep shadow box is a perfect way to display your most sentimental pieces.
Target and Wayfair have a few options for these types of boxes.
You are not only avoiding getting rid of these meaningful pieces, but you are displaying them so that they are no longer lost in closets and drawers in your home.
Amazon also has a really nice display case that will help you feature your items in an organized manner.
Overall, these are great options for those larger pieces of clothing that bring you happiness. This way they are no longer collecting dust and taking up precious space in your closet.
Also, these display cases make great gifts too.
Way 3: Make a New Bag
Not only can you create pillows and shadow boxes, but you can also send your clothes off and receive a bag back made from your sentimental pieces.
These bags are beautiful! When you look down, you can think of all of the memories that were created with those pieces of clothing.
Again, this is yet another way to display your pieces and get them out of your closets without throwing them out.
Get Rid of the Fabrics of Life
Not only are there pieces of sentimental value in your closet, but there are also those pieces from your own life experiences.
Pieces like t-shirts from high school or college. For instance, your go-to band camp shirt or that shirt from that co-ed league where you met your husband. We all have these types of clothes that we really don’t wear but should get rid of.
Way 4: Create a Blanket
For those precious fabrics of life, it is definitely hard to let go of t-shirts that you have had for years. You just feel that you might regret tossing it out.
So that’s okay because you can simply pile these clothes up and send them off to be created into a blanket.
When you do this, you will receive a beautiful quilt with all of your favorite tees right there for you to cuddle up to on the couch.
Get Rid of Clothes Left in the Pile
So now that you have taken care of your sentimental pieces and those items that are really hard to part with, you still probably have a pile waiting for a new spot.
With the following ways, you will find a place for everything leftover from your closet purge.
Way 5: Give Gifts to a Friend
Do you have a friend or family member in mind that may just look stunning in those items that you don’t want in your own closet? Is there someone who may just look amazing in that red dress or those boyfriend jeans?
With these people in mind, think about the process and who may find these items to be perfect for their own closets.
Make a list and then wrap these items up and send them off as little gifts. Who doesn’t love an unexpected present?
Way 6: Donate to Local Charities
Donating your clothing to a local charity is also a great way to help your community.
With the Salvation Army and Goodwill, you will be sure to find a new home for your items.
The Salvation Army Thrift Stores give you four easy options for making a donation.
For instance, you can find a drop-off location or schedule a free pickup.
Additionally, Goodwill also has an easy donation process. Just follow the steps below:
Of course, there are several other places to donate clothing. Just check your local resources to see where these drop off locations are as well.
Way 7: Find a Neighbor in Need of Clothing on the Nextdoor App
While you could definitely sell your clothing to someone in your neighborhood through this app, you could also alert your neighbors of the items that you could give them after your closet cleanse.
Not only is the app great for getting rid of your clothing, but it is also rather handy for neighborhood alerts, meeting new friends, and much more.
Way 8: Sell Clothes on THREDUP
Thredup makes it so easy for you to send out your clothes for cash.
With a three-step process, you simply request a clean out kit, fill up the bag, send it out via USPS or FedEx, and when your items sell you get paid.
Way 9: Reuse Clothing for Cleaning
So are you still pondering how to get rid of clothes at the end of your cleanse? Are you still looking at a few items that you honestly can’t donate or do anything else with? Yes, don’t be ashamed, these not so great-looking items exist in everyone’s pile.
Instead of just tossing them into the trash can, you could use these as your cleaning cloths.
Grab a pair of scissors and cut these old ugly no good items into cleaning cloths.
For these cleaning cloths, you could use them the next time you scrub anything down with bleach.
Also, you could use these for cleaning your baseboards. Additionally, use these old clothes when you paint too.
Closet Complete
Your closet cleanse is complete! Nice job completing the process. I know that sometimes it is hard to part ways with certain items.
Hopefully, with these alternative options for your sentimental clothing, you have found a way to make space, but yet still keep your precious pieces.
Enjoy your new closet space!
& Remember
Start with the Bed,
Juliet
