To throw away all my clothes?

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I am sick of wearing crap and not feeling nice, I have too many clothes so my washing is always ridiculous (although 2 under 5 don’t help) it’s always leggings or skinny jeans With various tops or jumpers and maybe the odd nice day dress I have. Am tempted to throw away everything (Will donate to clothes bank) and order 4 Nice day dresses keep a 2 Cardigans one pair of jeans and maybe 3 tops and get a good pair of boots (Chelsea style docs) and 1 handbag? Am currently a size 14/16 5.1ft I know am over weight but am ok with it at the moment.

I try & do the capsule wardrobe where I have 33 items to mix & match. It saves messing around each morning trying to decide what to wear. Every so often I take stuff to the Chazza & begin again. Schuh have some good Dockers, if you can fit a size 4 or 5 you can order from the kids kids section & save money.

I regularly "prune" back my wardrobe and have only bought 2 new items this year. But I wouldn't chuck everything out and start again. Surely (depending on where you are) you'll need sweaters, exercise wear, slobbing around, old stuff for dirty jobs etc?

I wouldn’t throw everything away as it seems wasteful to me. Go through everything you have by all means - maybe with a system like Marie Kondo - and throw away the things you don’t enjoy wearing. But throwing everything away seems like overkill

I think you’d enjoy it for two months then rebuy lots of leggings - that is what happened to me with my capsule maternity wardrobe, I loved the minimalism/elegance of a limited mix n match and vowed that I would stick to the same template long term, then got fed up and found it restrictive and boring. I also found that fewer clothes means each one is washed a lot more and wears out, so it felt that I had to buy new stuff much more often than with my previous giant mismatched pile to rummage through...

Yep am a size 5 so regularly buy from the kids sections 😂 I will keep my current favourite jeans and 1 pair of loungey/gardening pants I’ve gone through my bits and kept aside 2 jumpers that I like and a few tops but do want to skim it down more when I get some nice quality bits.

Oh will keep my good leggings too.

I had a massive clear out in jan & Feb and got rid of bag fulls. Come lock down and now autumn/wintertime I’m regretting it somewhat as there was prob tonnes of stuff I could be wearing for WFH that wasn’t tip top but just alright, and the reality is I’m sick of not having much choice.
I’d strike a balance and throw some, and store some in a loft (if you’ve got one), with a few new items.

Sounds good to me! as long as any wearable clothes are donated somewhere.

It's such a boost to do this. All my 'new' clothes are 2nd hand from charity shops, but give me a new vibe.

Instead of buying new just keep the items you mentioned buying new from your current stock of clothes and then toss the rest?

What’s the benefit of throwing away what you have (and hardly ever worn!) and buy new ones, that you are likely never going to wear? 🤔

First I would figure out WHY you are not using your existing wardrobe.

Summer / winter wardrobe change helps with the switchover and ‘pruning’.

Good luck!

I did the Marie Condo thing on my clothes and it was brilliant. I used to have so many clothes that I wore but didn’t like that much, and the ‘nice’ ones got saved, now I always wear something I feel good in. Having so much less has massively helped with washing as well, I really need to do the same with the kids’ clothes! I also used to have clothes for different seasons that were put away- but then half the time I’d forget to get them out until half way through that season, and would have bought a few new random things in the mean time, and it took up too much storage- now everything is either in the wardrobe or the chest of drawers, not overflowing so easy to see what there is. Do it!! I’m planning to do the rest of the house MK style at some point!

I think you should analyse your wardrobe and clothes before throwing most of them out. What do you need in your daily life and what do you feel good in? What do you find unflattering? And so on.

This is to avoid buying a bunch of new clothing that you might not wear if you feel that your wardrobe is too empty after the declutter. Been there, done that myself.
Good luck!

Do it.

Keep only the things that fit, that you actually wear day-to-day, are functional (such as leggings) and in good condition, or that you love and feel good in.

Then do exactly as you said - four day dresses, a pair of shoes or boots that goes well with each of those, and a nice bag that also coordinates.

Having just got rid of 3 bin liners of clothes and shoes ,I say Go for it! quite cartarhic I feel much better and revived somehow ! Just do what you want ,also wont have 12 cardies hanging around like me!

I think that sounds like a waste. Just get rid of anything that doesn’t fit or is scruffy looking.

To the Salvatian Army BTW! not thrown in landfill I hasten to add!

I've been really trying to reduce the number of clothes in my wardrobe and only keep things I actually love (or are too useful to part with). I'm a SAHM at the moment and have fallen into the trap of 'saving' my nice things and wearing the stuff that I am distinctly 'meh' about it. I'm trying to be super strict particularly about stuff which is past its best like jeans where the flies are broken. I need to think a bit further about winter as I've mainly just done more summer type clothes but it is much better having a reduced number of items and I feel better about what I'm wearing. I would absolutely love to start over from scratch though.

Why would fewer clothes make washing any better? You are still going to have to wash your the same number of outfits per week, and with fewer clothes something being in the wash would be more of a pain? If the answer is that you wear loads of your clothes and it then makes a massive pile of washing, surely the answer is to not let the washing build up? Easy to say, I know, with two small children.

Oh will keep my good leggings too.

There are no good leggings imo unless you're pregnant or at a gym.
Buy fitted trousers.