decluttering my wardrobe // what to do with "textile waste" and worn out clothes

For the striped one sun will make yellowish stains go away

Thank you. Enjoyed this video so much!

For armpit stains, I make a paste of baking soda and dishsoap, scrub on the stain with a toothbrush and let set 10-15 minutes before washing like regular. Works every time.

You can make japanese gift wrapping cloths from a square shaped piece of fabric that is still in good condition - cut shirts, skirts, pyjamas etc. into squares so you can use the nice patterns and colours again.

So lovely to see someone enjoying their wardrobe. I especially loved all your hounds tooth coats. I want one now! 😆

A video on things to do with horribly old/unwearable and unfixable shoes would be great

I love your note about getting the hangers that work best for your clothes instead of what's trendy, for me a huge game changer was getting hangers that are actually the width of my shoulders, which meant children's hangers lol. They are plastic, but I also bought them all secondhand from moms who's kids had grown out of using them, and now I can see what my clothes will actually look like on me when they're on the hangers, and they're not getting warped anymore because the shoulders match up correctly.

Oof, the Chandler Bing reference.. 😢

I use borax to save stained linen table clothes. Not sure about the sustainability of borax?

Get Bermuda style denim shorts. They're longer legged so thighs don't rub.

Just had a thought, maybe old clothes could be cut up and used to wrap the wire coat hangers? 🤔

An idea for worn out clothes could be to use the fabric to wrap/pad the wire coat hangers to make them kinder to the good clothes you’re hanging on them. Also helps stop things sliding off.

I need to do a closet reorganization and swop out my summer clothes with winter ones. I know that I need to get the zipper on one of my jackets fixed, it's been broken since the beginning of December last year 😱. I think that everyone should learn basic sewing skills, sewing on a button and hemming a garment should be common knowledge for everyone. It would save people so much money and so many resources if you could easily fix garments.

baking soda and vinegar and soak it in a sink for a while for the stripe shirt. i also scrubbed and used dawn soap and it lifted some bad old yellowy stains

Just add black trim to that last halter crop top to hide the stains

Wow you have such a fun and unique wardrobe. Thanks for sharing!

With the stripey vest-top, I wonder if you had some black material, if you could sew a thin band around the arm holes (over the current hem)? As a sort of defined seam-edge thingy (I have no idea of what the proper word for that is!) to cover the stain?

i cut up a lot of my old clothes and stuff and crochet with it!!

Trousers and Jeans that wear out at the thigh can be made into skirts if youre handy with a needle. 👍

Jeg er både begyndt at reperer mit gamle tøj og så syer/strikker/hækler jeg selv hvis jeg mangler nyt tøj. Jeg køber faktisk kun nyt tøj, når jeg er på ferie i udlandet (bus eller bil når det kan lade sig gøre-fly hvis det ikke kan), og helst fra små lokale butikker i god kvalitet 😊 og helst genbrug! Så det er sjællent jeg køber tøj, men når jeg så gør er det noget som bliver virkelig glad for i årevis 😊

i have a white blouse like that too! i love oversized fits so i stole my dads. Turns out he wore it on my parents wedding plus it actually belonged to my grandpa before. I love when my clothes have history😊

Lately I've been up cycling my old dresses into scrunchies 😅 most of which I gift to my friends!

For that cotton top at the end, a quick fix would be to use some soft t-shirt fabric like bias tape and sew it on the arm holes. I think black would look just fine with that top. If you think it looks odd, I'd suggest changing the shirt collar to black. Good luck!

If the last top is 100% cotton why don't you dye it? Maybe with onion peels. curcuma or black tea. I don't think the stains would still be visible then

I got faded sheets from the thrift store, ripped them into strips and made hook rugs

There is a textile recycling facility near me and I bring whatever I cannot reuse to that place. I feel really fortunate! Great video ❤❤❤

So fabulous to see all your clothes and hearing stories about them :)

Love this video! I appreciate that you don't limit yourself in terms of how many clothes you own, just making sure you're being as sustainable as possible and only keeping things that matter to you and fit well.

Thoughts on a wedding dress? Obviously, I'm keeping it for sentimental reasons, but is there some purpose to use it for other than taking up space in the closet with the excuse that a potential future daughter might want to use it?

Have you tried folding your clothes in a way they stand up in your drawers? It's the one thing I've kept up with from Marie Kondo. Nothing gets lost in the drawer as you can see every item!

For the tank top with the little yellowing around the armpits - what if you sewed some scrap fabric around the armhole to make a sort of black (or any color) contrast border? It could be fairly thin since the yellowing doesn't go down too deep. I've tried this with tank tops but am still trying to find a creative way to manage yellowing in white sleeved tops :/ I feel like my natural deodorant causes more yellowing than I experienced when I used to use "normal" deodorant so I imagine this issue won't be going away anytime soon

On the fast fashion crochet, if it looks like crochet at a glance but more like knitting when you look at the stitches, it could be a machine knit and it sometimes gets called crochet.

thank you for the tips, you're doing such a great job with these kind of videos! a little tip from me to everyone, if you can, don't put your knitted sweaters or sweater vests on hangers since that really puts a strain on it. instead lay it out and store it on a shelf etc, that way it'll last much longer.

I have a knitted cardigan/jacket that my grandma knitted for herself, used a lot, my Mother have also used it a lot and I have too. It is close to 70 years old, and I'm now giving it a little TLC, to make it last Even longer ❤️ love heirloom pieces!

Omg thank you for doing this, it’s the kick I needed. I’ve been avoiding going through my wordrobe (my NY resolution) literally all year now. 😂

I was finally tackling my laundry basket (grad school is kicking my ass), I took a picture of my closets and the bed where I was folding everything and the chairdrobe (worn but not dirty clothes) and was like, "I need a walk in closet." I love my clothes. I love fashion and I love finding new ways to wear my things. Although I also run into, "If I don't see it, then it doesn't exist" which is bad. Honestly, if one side of my closet was more racks instead of shelves, I think it would be okay. I love options, especially when I am not feeling great about my body, I have many to choose from. This was fun to watch and makes me want to go through things again and rediscover what I have!

Can you put the bike shorts under the denim shorts?

Animal shelters also love Old bedsheets and towels.

you can easily dye the top since its cotton only :)

I love how you keep things for sentimentality. I feel like I see so much zero waste content push minimalism and it’s very nice to see something different

I need to do this again. Bit feels so good

I love folding items I put in my drawers in the style Marie Kondo demonstrated, because it allows me to see everything I keep in that drawer at a glance. (Some items can't be folded in that way, but for the ones that can, it has been a game changer.) It's easier to remind myself of things I already own, as well as remind myself that...dang, I've got quite a few items. It can keep me from buying items I find secondhand that I already own something similar of.

Love how you talked about the balance of not throwing something away if it doesn't fit our body our taste in this exact moment, because our bodies and tastes in clothing change over time, whether it be over years or even within a single month. And yet we should also be aware of items of clothing that just need to go. No sentimental value, no future in our own wardrobe except a maybe-possible-future day when we will magically fit. My body has changed a lot in the 10 years since high school, and some things I gave away in high school I know I would've worn if I still had them today. But other things I've held on to for years that finally I've had to admit will never fit me again, and just give away. A few borderline fit/don't-fit items I've decided to hold on to for now, some have sentimental value, some are good quality and I'm willing to chance suddenly being just a bit slimmer...but yeah. I appreciated the nuance you spoke about here. :-)

Now, I want to go through my wardrobe just to remind myself of what I've got, and so I can get excited about what I already own again. (With cooler weather coming in as well, I'm excited to stop wearing some of my summer items and start wearing sweaters again!)


Have a great week! Cheers.

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“What am I doing, I’m ALMOST 30!!” 🤣🤣

I literally just decluttered my wardrobe 😄 would definitely recommend since the end result is always so satisfying!

Hi! For the halterneck stain I recommend the Dr. Beckmann stain spray Deo&Sweat. It saved many of my white t-shirts. 😇🥰

I know the pain of the jeans splitting and breaking in the exact same place as you! Literally yesterday I came to the conclusion that one pair is beyond saving, deceived I’m going to keep them and use them to patch up other jeans that break to hopefully extend their lifespan 🤞

I would over dye with a golden dye that black and white striped tank top, so that the underarm stains blend into the backgrorund as it were.

Re: letting go of clothing that doesn’t fit you anymore. I agree, there is a balance. If keeping hold of something has a negative impact on one’s mental well-being (e.g. stress from ‘why can’t I lose/gain weight so it will fit again’) then it’s just not worth it. That being said, it can also be expensive/jobbigt with a fluctuating weight to buy a whole new wardrobe each time one’s weight changes. So, it can be tough to balance sometimes. I find if an item no longer fits me well, as time passes, I naturally gravitate away from it, and I usually end up donating it anyway. But things like ‘period jeans’ (which fit a little looser round the stomach) etc. I just like to have.