Quote Originally Posted by Dogmama View Post
lph - good advice. I'm guilting my husband into giving things away with, "This is a perfectly good coat that you never wear. Some poor guy at the Salvation Army would probably really like it - but you're being selfish & hanging onto it." It's working!

I've also heard that unless you have room in your closet, you won't buy things that actually fit / are in style / etc. I have several pairs of jeans that are old old old - we're talking the waistband is above the naval & they are clown-baggy. I happened to catch part of that show "What Not To Wear" and saw somebody else with my pants on - ho boy did she get ridiculed. So, I'll keep one pair for washing the dog & the rest are out of here.
What Not To Wear has inspired me to get rid of lots of old clothes. I'm also more careful in buying new ones -- I'm a sucker for color and texture, so I tended to buy things that might not fit so well because I love the color or fabric. Now I pay much more attention to how things fit.

I still have clutter issues, though. For every sweater I get rid of, I seem to buy two new ones.