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Vote in the Closet Declutter Challenge!

Howard Howell Closet-After

Voting is now closed.  Please help me congratulate our winner, owner of Closet C, Anna Choi!  Anna wins a $50 Amex gift card, and I’ll be sending that to her via mail today. Thank you all for participating – those who sent pictures in and the many who sent me emails about their own personal [...]

Closet Declutter Recap

Photo by Darwin Bell

I’ve received several emails and phone calls from people who have cleaned up their closets, but it seems like many of you are too shy to submit a before picture!  That’s okay – the main goal of the project is to clear out the clothes that respresent the old you, not the current you. Because [...]

How to Declutter Your Closet, Part 2

Closet after

Editor’s note: Don’t forget the closet challenge! The winner will receive a $50 Amex gift card. Contest details are here, and the deadline for submission is Monday at 5 p.m. Pacific. Now that you’ve done an initial purge of your closet you can start fine-tuning the arrangement. First, we’re going to sort the closet for [...]

How to declutter your closet, part 1

Betsy Closet Before

We keep a lot of memories in our closets:  the dress we wore when we were at that “perfect” size, those high heels that hurt our feet but we can’t get rid of them because they cost so much, and especially those jeans that we are determined to get back into. In fact, most people [...]