Making the Off Season Clothing Swap and Pairing Down

by shawnachilders

Everyone has those clothes hanging in your closet that you have good intentions for, but you never aaaactually wear. I’m hanging on to some jeans that don’t quite fit anymore, but I keep swearing to myself that I’ll be able to squeeze back into them… soon?

Today’s client was doing an off season clothing swap and needed to pair down some of her clothes that she had good intentions for, but didn’t really ever wear.

A great way to manage those off season clothing items is to store them separately from your in-play items. Whether in another closet, in bins in your attic or garage, or just at the back of your closet.

Check out last year’s winter clothes that had been stored in her cedar closet:

She was honest with herself about which clothes she had actually worn in the past year and was able to pair down to this, before moving this years winter clothes into the closet:

Now that the cedar closet had some room, she was able to turn her current closet from cluttered and over-run:

To sorted by type:

She also worked some major magic with her shoe storage and was able to let go of several pairs of shoes that she didn’t wear anymore.

Her shoe cabinet before:

And her shoe cabinet after:

Now, all of her winter clothes are stored nicely in the cedar closet and her upstairs, bedroom closet houses the cute summer dresses and items she’ll need through these hot Texas summers!