You’ve read about the benefits. The rules are easy to follow. You can do it for free or take the dress with less course and really begin to understand why this is so important (and laugh along the way).
After hearing things like, “This “little” course changed my life. I’ve pared down my closet, yes – but the concept of living with less has spilled over into every area of my life.” you have to wonder if there is something to this minimalist fashion challenge.
If you have all the tools you need, and your closet doors are still closed, there can only be one thing missing. Not motivation, or willpower. Not energy or determination.
You Need Music
If Project 333 was a musical, and you had the lead role, what would you be singing and dancing to as you tackle your closet?
I imagine songs that are not to serious, motivate loud off-key (if you are me) singing and crazy dancing in-between taping boxes shut. This closet clearing, dance combo takes “dance like no one is watching” to a whole new level.
I hope this playlist is the music you need to take that closet down today!
This is today’s project. It definitely gets easier!
thanks Paula!
Strikingly similar to my blog posted in November
Music to Tidy To … http://organisationalgoddess.blogspot.com/2013/11/music-to-tidy-to.html
Am extremely unhappy about this. I would ask that you bring down this post, or at the least credit me with the idea!
kind regards The Organisational Goddess
Deborah, thanks for sharing your post. This is actually the first time I’ve seen your site and it looks like you just gave yourself credit. by including a link in your comment. 😉
You’d have to credit my mom with the idea first. She was tidying to music before I was born, long before your blog post. Ideas don’t happen in a vacuum, and just because you and Courtney have a similar idea doesn’t mean that she took it from you!
Gosh I have been putting on music to motivate me while cleaning since I was a child. Great idea to extend that to closet reassessment, Courtney. Thanks for yet another positive, inspiring post.
Glad it’s helpful Allie!
You are so generous! Thank you for your kindness and support….I am still in the process of “minimizing”, especially my wardrobe. Your posts in my in box really help keep me on track….especially in such a consumptive world! I have really enjoyed the 31 gifts and look forward to reading your new book which I got on Amazon today for free :). Happy New Year!
Yay! So glad Peg. If you have a chance to review the mini-missions book on Amazon, I’d really appreciate it. Happy New Year.
This makes me wonder, what if we tried project 333 with music? That might be fun. Meaning that you could only listen to 33 songs for the next 3 months… I have a relatively small music library compared to some people, but I don’t know that I could narrow down from 546 to only 33. I had enough trouble picking 101 songs recently for a top 101 playlist. Then again, maybe this is like many other minimalist things – the fewer options you have, the easier it is to do.
I’m getting ready to start P333 for the first time in the new year. So far, I’ve narrowed down from 48 to 36, and it’s really hard to eliminate things now, since I wear all of the clothes I have left, pretty much.
I started with this on November 1. ;), so this will be the first full 3 months I will do it. Only, I altered the rules to fit me. I have a lot of different activities, that all require different clothes, and different levels of preparing for weather. So, I have 2 sets of 33 – one for my professional job and regular socializing, and one for my competitions/practices with dogs and horses. I will often wear two different outfits in the same day, as I go between activities. Oh, and I also only count garments, and allow myself free choice among my accessories, shoes, outerwear. Progress not perfection, right? 😉 I am still getting rid of things right and left, a whole box full when I started for November 1, and another 10 or so starting with this challenge. I feel like I have TONS of clothes to choose from, but still have limited enough choices I need to be creative. I haven’t felt deprived in the least I didn’t have as much as some I know to start with, as I have always been pretty good about cleaning out things. But, still, this challenge is helping me make choices about what I really like, and better able to let go of things I “should” like and wear, but don’t. Just yesterday I took three clothing items to a holiday party, and gave them away while I was there. Love the idea of doing it to music, I also used to play music to clean house and do other similar chores, in fact, there are certain old albums that cause me to remember ironing!! 😉 I have an app called “style book” that helps me keep track of how often I wear something, that’s been an enlightening part of this, too, and has caused me to let go of something, or in some cases rediscover a hidden gem.
If it wasn’t for music, my home would NEVER get clean. Nev—–ver!
I have wanted to do this for a long time. For me as well as my children. We are just drowning in clothing. But I live in the Northeast and I can’t figure out how to handle transitional months, like March. I don’t want to dig through the packed stuff for a couple of days of warm weather to then go back to weeks of cold and rain. I am embarrassed to even ask this considering that people around the world probably have 33 items in total. As they say, ” a first world problem”.
Thanks for any suggestions !!!