Cleaning out your closets is always a difficult thing to do mainly because there are so many decisions to be made. To help you out, here are some great closet ideas that you may not have thought of or known about:
1) If you are like me, you probably have lots of clothes that have never been worn. If so, you can try to return them to the store where you bought them. The stores will sometimes give you cash but usually they will give you store credit. If you don't want the credit, you can turn around and sell that credit on Ebay. There is a high demand on Ebay for store credit receipts and they usually fetch upwards of 80% of face value. Of course this will only work if you have store credit from a national chain.
2) Many people also use Ebay to get rid of their unwanted clothes whether it is new or used. Children's clothes sell especially well as do sweaters, shirts, and blouses. If you hate the thought of organizing a garage sale, Ebay can be a great place to sell some of your nicer items and get some nice cash for them too.
3) Here is a very neat hangar trick - try putting all your hangars in backwards on the rod in your closets. When you wear an item, turn the hangar around. At the end of the year or season, you will easily be able to tell which clothes you haven't worn and may want to get rid of!
4) Do you need more space to store things? Did you know that you can put the clothes you won't need in large sturdy plastic bags and suck the air out of them? This also works great when packing for a long trip and you need more room. Give this a try and you will be amazed. Put all the clothes you don't need in a plastic bag and use your vacuum cleaner to suck all the air out. It will shrink the size of your clothes significantly freeing up lots of room.
5) If you want to plan a new closet design, figure out first what you plan to put in the closet. Only by knowing what types of clothes you want to put in the closet will you know what types of shelves, poles, and drawers you will nee. There are many closet ideas out there and you need to be organized and create an inventory list first.
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DO you agree/concur with me and give me your reason.?Here is the story concerning Stacy. Stacy as you know brought/buys beautiful sweaters at the 99 cent store. Due to the fact that Stacy has one big closet in her bedroom she cannot keep both fall/winter and spring/summer clothes in the same closet so twice a year she changes the clothes and puts the out-of-season in the den closet. The den closet she shares with her mom. In addition her mom has her own closet in her bedroom. The only time her mom says anything about giving things away is when Stacy switches her clothes which is in October (the start of the fall/winter season) and then May (the start of the spring/summer season). But Stacy hates it when her mom says ?What you don?t wear give away? Stacy wears everything. So of course Stacy called me and I said to her ?No your mom is not saying you must give away, she is only saying if you want to but when your mom says that to you just ignore her and don?t try to justify it because it will only cause a fight with you and your mom. MY QUESTION: DO you agree/concur with me and give me your reason. ThanksAND how would you get Stacy not to get upset if her mom does say that to her
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By: p0rc3la1nh3art | 08-10-2007
Ok, i just got my first job so right now i don't have very much money. But i am really getting tired of all of the clothes that i have. I mean, i like the clothes that i wear, but i just don't have much variety in my closet. Most of the stuff that i wear is layered clothing and its cute, but i am in want of something new. Does anyone know where i can go to get some really cute clothes that are cheap? Or atleast any ideas on how i can change up my style with what i have?
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is plato's closet really a discount store and what is the range of pricing discount on there clothes.
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