Spring Cleaning

Get the jump on spring! Clean out and organize your closets now so you are ready to enjoy the good weather when it arrives.

Start by going through your wardrobe and deciding which winter clothes will make it to next year and which have earned a place in storage.

When cleaning and organizing your closet:

• Try on items to see what fits and what does not.


• Get rid of anything that is not flattering.


• Toss clothing items that did not get used over the last winter.


• Decide what items could be better used by someone else.

Once you have decided what will stay, pack up the items and sort them into categories. Have a bag or box for items that need to go to the dry cleaner, another for items marked for storage another for trash and another for items marked for donation or resale.

Organizing your closets early in the season will help you from getting behind and ending up with a closet stuffed full of last season's clothes and this season's new purchases.