Ever get the urge to do a reality check with yourself, and find out whether you REALLY need all five of those cowboy-inspired button downs that have been hanging in your closet since 2008 with the tags on? Well, J.D. Roth of the blog Get Rich Slowly came up with a way to conduct this kind of check, and in the process, shine a light on how much shit you have that you don’t need, and perhaps as a faraway byproduct of this process, make you donate to charity. Roth took all of his clothes and moved them from his bedroom closet to a separate room. Every day when he got dressed, he’d have to go to that other room to get what he wanted. At the end of the day, he’d put those clothes back in the bedroom closet instead of in the spare room. Rinse and repeat, until all his faves were back in their rightful place and the shit he rarely wore hung like a rejected sorority pledge in the other lonely room. He did this for a year, and at the end of the year, he could see — as probably many of us could, were we to repeat the experiment — that he hardly wore mostof the things in his wardrobe. Off to charity those rejects went. No one has a problem with charity, right? I didn’t think so. And if this story can get anyone to purge and donate (kind of like binge and purge, but more altruistic), so much the better.Mostly, though, this is (as Roth himself says) a story about getting rid of stuff you don’t use, presumably for a clutter-free existence. I had the same results with feng shui, but a lot of people don’t get down with Eastern shit because they feel like they are too cynical and therefore too smart to buy into it’s millenia-old promises. Whatever. If moving stuff to a different room soothes your inner skeptic, go for it. It’s an interesting premise. [Via Lifehacker ] Post from: TheGloss
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Clothes: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?
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