My end of the year clothing tally was 28 items in and 30 items out. It seems like I bought a lot of clothing in 2025, and I'm not sure what was behind that. I'm still doing very well compared to my days of spending thousands of dollars at Talbot's every year though. As long as more goes out than comes in, at least it's progress from a decluttering standpoint.
That's a good way to look at it. I guess we should be on to a January purge thread now. I admire you for doing an end of the year thing.
Do you have a total of clothing items you seek to stay below? Do you do it by category? I've tried something like that in past but wonder what others do, how many pants, etc.
Tybee: When I started tracking, we could barely jam all of our clothing into our one and only closet. It's a decent sized closet, but still the only one. It was hard to find anything, because items wouldn't slide along the pole because there was no room for them to move.
Now the closet is much more manageable, and we are even able to store other things in there (e.g. portable a/c, a few fans in the off-season).
I don't have a target total other than to not bring in more than goes out at this point. I do count my shirts, because they are the item that tends to be more of a recreational shopping item for me. When I started tracking, I had over 150 shirts , and now I'm down to 90. I know that's still a lot, but it's a big improvement.
I don't aspire to be a capsule wardrobe minimalist. I just want to feel like the clothing inventory is under control, which it pretty well is at this point.
I am going to make my goal for today to count my shirts!
Since we are talking about shirts here, even though there is a January purge thread started up, I’ll chime into this “counting shirts “ thread.
I’m not going to count mine, but I am going to ruthlessly weed even more after a weeding of clothing four weeks ago.
DH is finishing construction on a closet in my room. After that, I’ll be able to have clothes that are permanently organized. All my clothes have been living in various dressers, tubs, and open rack since 2022. I hate the look of clothing racks. Soon it will all be shut away neatly behind doors.
I'm with you about not loving the look of clothing racks. It must be hard to live out of tubs and racks.Originally Posted by iris lilies
I remember the first time I saw open clothing racks in a Hollywood celebrity’s house. She lived in a normal size house and had turned one bedroom into the “closet “that held several racks full of her clothes. I thought it was hideous, and I was shocked that someone would choose to live that way but I accept that being photographed all the time requires a certain dedication to clothing.
I just counted and I have 55 shirts of all varieties and seasons and that is too many for the closet/dresser space I have, so will try to get that number down arbitrarily, need to ponder how many of each type.
We have been purging corn leaves!!!! The field across the street sends them to us after harvest...the wind howls and the corn husk fly up into our yard, getting caught in the flowerbeds, covering them deeply unless we keep at it. Some years we do well, other years...spring is major cleanup. The outside basement steps get covered, too. So we cleared those out yesterday as the plumber was coming to replace the well pump and tank. To get rid of the husks, we put them up a little higher in the yard and they blow up into the meadow behind us. The farmer does not seem to believe in crop rotation. We used to get a year off when he'd plant soybeans....
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