About a month ago I started closet purging. Well, more like closet and drawar purging! Not so much to do with weight loss though. More so that I realized.. my drawers were so stuffed with clothes, that I couldn't open them anymore. And yet... I NEVER wore at LEAST half of them... and yet they were constantly getting in the way and preventing me from easily getting to the clothes that I DO like. So one night I sat in my room and got out every piece of clothing I owned, and I made 3 piles: Yes, No, and Maybe. Yes was the clothing I did like the look of, and felt fit my individual style. Maybe was one's I would think over. No's were ones I felt weren't me... they just didn't fit my style, and I hardly wore them. Some I was attached to, but I had to ask myself, "Is this really me?" and most of the times, the answer was "No." I am NOT a baggy, dark-colored sweater. I am NOT an old-granny shirt, and I am NOT a baggy shirt with text on it. I'm NOT. I'm form-fitting bright colors, BOLD, adventurous, striking, and STYLISH, and if my clothing doesn't reflect that, then I don't want it! So yeah, I got rid of like half my clothes.
Well that was a few weeks ago. Today I went through all the remaining clothes, the yeses. Then I reevaluated whether I actually liked/would wear each item, and I tried ALL of it on. If I didn't like the way it looked on me in any way, I got rid of it (basically, I like shirts that show my figure more.. if it was baggier and if tented out in the front even a LITTLE bit, out it went!). I donated all of it to Salvation Army. Now I'm done... but I have about 1/4 the amount of clothes I started with a month ago. HOWEVER, I don't regret it one bit! I love all the clothing I have now and look forward to wearing it, even though I have much less of it!
I do have an entire drawer of memory shirts though, that I can't bear to part with. You know the ones... the shirts you get from stuff like school plays and events and childhood sports teams..... to me those represent important memories and I couldn't part with them.
Now my only concern is that I might have very nice clothing remaining, but soon I'm not even going to fit into that anymore! Ugh. I'm going to seriously have to start hitting up Salvation Army soon.
By the way, this post had no real purpose except to rant about clothes. But I'd like to hear from you guys! How is your closet lately? And how has it been affected by your weight loss?