Decluttering for family members
Do you declutter for your family members?
When I started decluttering my own stuff, building up the momentum, it was naturally the next thing that I would move onto my husband’s and kids’ clothes.
There were 2 reasons I wanted to declutter for them.
1) To get rid of the excess
2) To build a whole new wardrobe with unified looks
For 1), this was relatively easy. I simply followed the method I took for downsizing my own wardrobe. The ones worn the least number of times, ones hard to match with other clothes, and ones that were repetitive, went into the donation bags.
For 2), I kind of wanted to build neutral looking wardrobes for all of us. It was more like a temporary urge of creating a KonMari looking wardrobe I just had to try. Neutral colors make it super easy to pick clothes for the next day. Select any top and bottom, and everything will go well without a doubt.
My husband is the type of person who can’t say no when he gets clothes, so he’d keep gifted clothes from his parents/siblings in his closet and let the items sit there for eternity.
One day I had a day off, and when he was out working, I decided to work on his closet.
He had dozens of new clothes, belts, pants, with tags or bags they came in, from years ago. His unworn items filled up 60% of his closet, and it wasn’t being put to usefulness at this rate.
So I successfully downsized over 50% of his wardrobe, and was able to disassemble 1 shelf, to free up our bedroom space.
He was shocked, by the fact that the gifted items were gone, but I said that he never touched those items, and no gifter would follow up with him to check if he really uses those gifts.
It was merely putting unused clothing items from point A (home) to point B (donation), which affected no one. In fact, he learned that there was no need to hold onto those things, and is somewhat onboard with me about decluttering.
He is also the one who does laundry, so less clothes meant less washing/folding, which worked perfectly fine for him.
Decluttering clothes turned out to work well for my family.
Believe in the process, and it will prevail.
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At the time of wardrobe downsizing, my husband had more clothes than I did.
There were a lot of duplicated items in different colors, but oftentimes he only wore white/simple ones.
Here's an example of how I downsized, I kept 1 out of every 3 - 4 of the repetitive items.
(It doesn't mean he only has 1 shirt left for each kind, just that if he had 8 repetitive items, I'd keep 2-3, it's the pictures are just to show the elimination process, he has enough clothes to wear so no worries)
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