Kimberly Steele

I finally started the first phase of minimizing my possessions here in my Aurora house. As a short introduction, we moved to this house about seven years ago. It is a very small house, about 100 years old, and when we got here, it was pretty dumpy. Thanks to my husband's handiwork, it is much more beautiful and liveable. It's still small though, and that's why I am doing a KonMari style purge of the sort that was all the rage about five years ago or so but has fallen out of favor. In a house this size, under 700 square feet, it's minimalist or bust.

My clothing wasn't all that excessive to begin with, but there was a great deal to purge anyway. This is a Before picture of my loungewear/pajama drawer.

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Here is the Before of all of my tops, which include sweaters, t-shirts, and regular shirts. Underneath is my bottoms drawer, which includes pants and skirts. Mostly I wear stretch pants with a skirt on top of them, though I do own one pair of cargo pants which I am wearing at the moment, so they are not shown.

Below is another Before photo. I have the top hanging rack. The bottom one is my husband's stuff. The door houses my scarf and hat collection.

Here is the Before of all of my clothing in the world piled on the bed.

Now the after photos. I ended up with one half garbage bag of discards -- clothes with holes and other problems. The blue hamper is going to GoodWill.

AFTER