EXTREME Konmari Closet Declutter! / Clean with Me

today we are going to be using the Konmari method and we are gonna tackle this beast and you are coming right along with me let's get into it I want to give you all a before-and-after here I think that is way more gratifying so all these clothes and you all I have gone through these clothes several several times with several moves that we've had over the past four years here and so this is weeded down quite a bit so this is what we're going to tackle I do not put many clothes in drawers at this point what my drawers are used for our undergarments and socks mostly so we're going to tackle this go through get rid of what we don't need I'm going to be asking myself throughout this process does this item spark joy now I may not necessarily folding the items like Mario Kondo but I'm going to implement her practice of does this spark joy to help me whittle down and get this a bit more organized ready set go so the first thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to start separating things into piles I have a basket there so those are all the donated items and then up there by the headboard are going to be all the items that I'm going to keep and then of course just putting the hangers there on the side Marie Kondo expresses the importance of touching every single item so that's what I'm doing here I'm being sure to touch every item of clothing and again asking myself that pivotal question does this item spark joy there were definitely times throughout this process that I wanted to start rationalizing the items thinking oh I'll wear this someday or oh I forgot that was even in here but I had to go back to that pivotal question and that really helped me stay on track stay focused and really just declutter and get rid of some of these items that I wasn't actually wearing not too shabby it so I decided to break my closet up into two parts because this is going to take me much longer than I anticipated so look at all these hangers that's exciting this big basket here that's overflowing our clothes that I am going to probably just donate and then all the rest of the clothes here I will go ahead and hang back up in my closet and then these scarves will go downstairs because I don't anticipate wearing them that much longer since spring is soon approaching so that was a little bit difficult I in my mind was thinking that oh I could wear this someday but then I really had to ask myself does this item spark joy and if my immediate response was not yes then I put it in the discard pile now let's load all the stuff back in the closet now as I'm putting these items away I still get the feeling that I could go through this again that there's still too many items here I do not even wear all those things there so I'm probably gonna whittle this down even more in the near future especially with spring and spring cleaning but for now this is a really good first start one little trick that I learned and I believe it was from do it on a dime so if anyone knows there you can correct me if I'm wrong I'm sure there's a lot of people that have done this but I call it the hanger trick and this is a way to tell if you've really worn the clothes enough or not and so each time you wear the clothes flip it around like so so if I've worn this item of clothes I'm gonna put it back I'm gonna put it like this and then at the end of the month or after a couple weeks or two months I'm gonna really see what items I actually wore with the most frequency and that's gonna really give me an objective idea of what I'm making the best use of in my closet so give that method a try it is really helpful especially if you're a little bit leery about starting a method such as the konmari method or you're just kind of wanting to make some changes in your closet and really good a good idea of how you're best using the items that are in there thank you so much for joining me today if you enjoy this video go ahead and check out these two videos right here I think that you will really enjoy them and if you haven't subscribed go ahead hit that subscribe button and give this video a thumbs up we will see you all in the next one thanks for watching