Bull Dozier
Footballguy
My wife has too many clothes as well. I do too, admitedly, but not as much as her (my main vice is t-shirts as I have far too many and don't get rid of them when I should). Anyway, for years, literally years, she would pile clothes on her side of the bed. Her morning routine is to pull stuff out of the closet, try it on, decide it doesn't look good so she throws it on the bed to pull something else out. She then builds a mountain of clothes on her side of the bed that grows until you can't walk past it anymore, and then she has to spend who knows how long sorting it through it to put stuff away, or weed out dirty clothes to throw in the laundry.yesterday my wife decided to clean her closets and donate old clothes. note that i mention closets. she has multiple. i have one. that she tried to creep in on when we moved in ("you don't need the space as much as i do! i have a lot of clothes!")
she has a mobile closet in the basement, too. plus.... i don't even know how many totes full of clothes.
one half of our bedroom is piled up with her clothes that are in totes, on top of totes, next to totes. it's just a freaking mess.
as she's cleaning, she's pulling out clothes that are TWENTY plus years old. TWENTY. at one point she pulled out a sweatshirt that she wore when we first started dating 15+ years ago and said to me "why did you let me keep this. this thing is so old and it doesn't fit anymore!"
when i told her i don't tell her what to do/not do she got mad at me for not making her clean her closets years ago. then spent the rest of the day fuming at me for allowing her problem to get so bad.
net result: wardrobe is no longer 20+ years old. it's only about 18+ years old
After hounding her about it she finally says she doesn't have enough room for all her clothes and if she just had more room, she would have it all put away. We had an extra room upstairs that was an office holding a computer desk we never used, and a file cabinet, and generally attracted junk we didn't want to deal with. I cleaned it out, got rid of the desk, relocated the file cabinet, and build a walk in closet. Hasn't changed anything, except there are now two piles of clothes (on in our room and one in the closet).
We also switch out summer and winter clothes. Not sure everyone does this, but I know I don't need shorts and polo's taking up space in the winter, or sweaters in the summer. So I pull down the tubs and switch all of my clothes and it takes about an hour. I'm ready to put everything back up. She will pester me to pull the tubs out of the attic as soon as the first day it is nice in the spring, never mind we both know it is going to get cold again and there is still a month+ of cold weather coming. So I do finally pull the summer clothes down on a Saturday, switch my clothes, and have my half ready to put away. The whole weekend passes, and she hasn't touched hers, and still has two piles of clothes going. The kitchen sure is clean though!