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How to Clean out Your Closet New York

Your closet must be a mess if you clicked here. Luckily, there's hope. All you need is a day committed to cleaning (because it takes a while), and some simple tools. Just read along.

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Steps

Be sure your room is clean before you do anything. If it's messy then it's harder to clean, and you may get stressed and tired from merely looking at the mess.
Take all of your clothes out of your closet and categorize them in clothes that don't fit, or you don't like. Then wash all of them. Wash the rest of the clothes you want to keep. They might smell or mildew after sitting in the closet all those days. It will be sure to stink up your room. After all those clothes are washed and back in your closet your room will smell better than before.
Sell the clothes you don't want on eBay. Even better, give your clothes to a charity, or sell them off to Plato's Closet, or Goodwill. Knowing you did something good for someone less fortunate would make you feel really good. You could even just give your clothes to a sibling, or cousin. This lightens up your load.
There will be more stuff in your closet other than clothes. You may even have a banana peel in there from months, your favorite toy you've been looking for. Just empty everything completely.
Once your closet is empty, scrub it down. You can search other recipes to clean your closet, but soap and water would do fine as anything else.
Install some book shelves in your closet to put all of your needed things (that may not be clothes) in, some hangers to put your purses etc, and some shoe racks. Also install a hamper to put your dirty clothes in but be sure to clean the clothes often so it won't overload, and your closet is a sudden mess. Check external links.
Now organize your clothes by color. It's easier than JUST organizing it by jeans, tops etc. If you organize by color it's easier to pick out a coordinate outfit.
Do not add any unneeded items in your closet like posters. It only hogs up space which makes your closet seem stuffy.
Finally once your closet is cleaned out spray down with some Febreeze, or Oust. It's a nice feeling.

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Tips

Now that your closet is cleaned you feel like a heavy weight is lifted from your shoulders, and your mind is even more clear than before. You feel better, your room feels better. Take yourself out for some ice cream. You need the reward.
Wash your clothes once a week, at the very least. You wouldn't want your clothes hamper to overload.
Spray your closet with an air sanitizer often. This scent could be a nice laundry smell, or a citrus smell which feels sweet, and clean. It's your choice.

Warnings

Don't be lazy. Just throwing some jeans in your closet because you don't feel like putting them away nicely in the hamper could lead to a mess. Be sure not to just think that if you give away more clothes you'll get more!

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