If you follow me on Instagram, you'll know that I recently did a 3 week Closet Clean Out Challenge with quite a lot of my followers! It was so fun to go through all of our before and after pictures, and it really motivated even more people to do the same.
My closet door
I made the challenge over the span of three weeks so that everyone can join in and it's not overwhelming. The goal was to completely organize the entire closet from top to bottom.
For the first week, I had assigned the task of cleaning out the floors. Yes, even under all of the hanging clothes where we love to tuck away random stuff that we never see again until we move out of our homes. We did floors first so that we have plenty of space to walk in the closet and do the remaining tasks.
Here's a look at how much stuff was found under my hanging clothes in my walk in closet:
Yikes! Let it be known that if I'm not respecting those items enough to put them away properly then I PROBABLY don't need to keep most of them. Majority of this stuff was donated or tossed.
Here's a look at how the upper part of the closet looked like. There's no system here so everything gets tossed on the shelf. We worked on shelves second week and all hanging clothes third week.
I also wanted to upgrade from my plastic hangers to wooden ones to give the rental a more sophisticated feel. Found a great deal on Amazon for them! Ready for the after?
An overview of the closet when you enter
Pakistani clothes take up one side of the closet
I cleared out the floors completely in the first week and got rid of all of the clutter and contained everything in the shelves second week. The white boxes are from The Container Store. I especially liked them because they are made of recycled material. Any chance to make better choices!
I labeled the boxes using a gold gel pen. The boxes contain travel items (such as packing cubes), shawls, cards, keepsakes and miscellaneous items in the last one.
And finally, I donated any clothes that I no longer wear in the third week and changed out the hangers. In the end I had donated a total of 4 bags of clothes!
Let's take a look at a few more before and afters:
Before: clothes are too close together making it unclear about what I actually own!
After: gave away clothes that I no longer wear and spaced out the clothes that spark joy so that they don't get wrinkled. The bins on this shelf contains small items like socks, gloves, hijab caps etc.
Here's a look at my remaining shelves:
The top 3 shelves are used to display my handbags and some shoes. I love giving closets a boutique feel. The last shelf I emptied out and use it for storing clean laundry that needs to be put away. I also added a mirror to the narrow wall on the side.
I also had a massive scarf collection on my door. I donated what I didn't use and kept the majority of the rest with their matching abayas, cardigans or shirts in their hangers.
Scarf collection before
Putting scarves with their matching pieces
After, a more manageable scarf collection
And that's about it for my Closet Clean Out Challenge in 3 weeks! It feels so much better now that I only have items that I love and I was able to give the rest to others who will hopefully enjoy them! Thank you SO much to those of you who joined me in the challenge. It was wonderful to see you all work towards a space that you'll love. The next challenge will be for a Kitchen Clean Out, so stay tuned for that! Follow me on Instagram to watch my entire Closet Clean Out Challenge on my highlights and to get more info about the next challenge!
What challenge would you like to work on in your home? Let me know in the comments below!
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