Why do I need to clean out my wardrobe?

Indicators you need to clean out your wardrobe:

• even though you seem to have plenty of clothes you have 'nothing to wear' 
• your clothes don't fit into your wardrobe
• you have pests eating holes in your clothes or mildew problems

I had all three problems - clothes all over the place and yet I did suffer from the 'nothing to wear' problem - plus when I unpacked my stored clothes that had been put away while I was wearing maternity clothes I found that silverfish had eaten through all my mohair jumpers.

According to an online article I read earlier this year, a recent study found that  the average Australian only wears a third (32%) of their clothes and has 104 items in their wardrobe they never wear. The research also found the average Australian has 10 pairs of boots and shoes they don’t wear (women 12 and men 7).  These unworn items cost on average $70 each. I don't have any links to this study so I don't know how thorough the study  was, but I can say that what I have found with cleaning out my own wardrobe that I have easily thrown out 100 items already! So I would believe it.

My excessive clothes were due to the fact that I never threw things out - half of what I threw out were t-shirts (some of which were 15 years old). Other people I know can't resist a sale and they have piles of things that they have bought because they were cheap but not necessarily what they needed (or suited them).

It doesn't matter why you have too many things in your wardrobe, the techniques for cleaning them out don't change.