The purge has happened.
Although it was pretty terrible I feel pretty good about the results. I trashed some clothes that I had apparently used to roll around in grout and caulk. I filled up a rag bag for the garage. I made a substantial pile to donate. The clothes I kept fall in to two categories- clothes that I like and fit, plus clothes that I really like a don’t fit. I was warned against hanging on to clothes that din’t fit but some of them I bought right before a new job. In a manner similar to the “freshman-15” I had a little growth spurt. So I’m hanging on to some clothes I JUST bought that are a little too snug.
Here’s the resulting data for people who are in to that sort of thing.
The week since the clothes purge I have felt some benefits. I don’t have to rummage through clothes that I don’t like or don’t fit to get ready in the morning. It doesn’t seem like I’m doing laundry more often, but when it is time for laundry I’ve found that I’m not washing clothes that ended up in the laundry cycle just because I pulled them out of the closet and and dropped them on the floor because they didn’t fit.