How to stop buying clothes you don't wear!
Do you stand in front of a closet full of clothes, but feel like you have nothing to wear?
Here’s how to stop stocking your closet full of clothes that you never wear!
It happens to the best of us, we overspend and under-buy. We buy a bunch of clothes that we think are going to deliver the fit, the style, and the look we want. Then they don’t. These clothes end up sitting in our closets collecting dust because we feel guilty getting rid of them.
Instead of trying to ‘make them work’, let’s learn how to not buy them in the first place! Let me teach you the 3X3 Shopping Rule. Following this rule when you are browsing the stores is guaranteed to help you stop buying clothes that you never wear!
Before you add to cart, or walk through the checkout, you need to ask yourself these two questions.
Do you have 3 things already in your closet that you can wear this with?
If you struggle to come up with three different ways you can wear something new you’re about to add to your closet, red flag! If you can’t outfit this new piece with what is already in your closet that means that it’s most like outside of your style profile and doesn’t fit in with the style you have already built into your wardrobe. Maybe the color clashes with the colors in your closet, maybe the pattern doesn’t work the the layers you already have, maybe the details make it difficult to accessorize with what you own. If something new can’t go with at least three things you already own, put it back!
Can you name 3 things currently on your calendar that you can wear this to?
If you can not think of three places you would wear this new item to, red flag that it doesn’t really work with your lifestyle. In order to have a closet full of value, you need to have a closet full of clothes that you help you get dressed for your actual life. Not some other life you fantasize about ❤️ Wherever you spend your days and time is what you need to get dressed for. I this new item can’t add value to your everyday life, put it back!
Exceptions to the rule.
There is always going to be the one off, or the exception to this rule. Maybe you have a one time special event or occasion where you have to wear something specific, maybe you are looking for an investment piece that you might not wear ofter but you’ll wear it forever. There are going to be the ‘one off’s’ and nuanced situations, but if have too many of those exceptions they become the standard, and that’s when you have a closet full of clothes with nothing to wear.
