Getting Organized:

In your home and homeschool

Yesterday we worked in our closets, so today, let’s spend 15 minutes decluttering folded clothes from your dresser drawers. I don’t give a specific number of folded clothes you can have, but rather, I go by how easily your dresser drawers open and close. If you can open and close your drawers easily after putting away all of your laundry, then you don’t have too much to go through. But if you have drawers that are bulging and overflowing, let’s work on thinning out how many folded clothes you have. Some areas that we have trouble letting go are our under clothes, socks, t-shirts, and shorts/pants. Use the timer and deal with one drawer at a time. Resist the urge to dump the drawer on your bed.Just start at the top of the drawer and pull out anything you can donate. (In the case of used underclothes, toss them in the trash if they are worn out, have extra holes, or stains, or don’t fit.) If you need to replace things, make a list. You should only keep clothes in your drawers that you will wear over the course of a year. That means, you will have some warm-weather folded clothes and some cooler-weather folded clothes (unless you live somewhere where the seasons do not change). If you only have time for one drawer, then come back another time and use the timer for an additional 15 minutes. If you do this monthly, you will eventually be able to do the whole dresser in one 15 minute time slot.

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