I'm sitting on the floor in my room amoungst a mountain of clothes the I did not know I owned.  First, I am not a clothes hound.  I do not know what is in "fashion" right now.  I was at the mall last week with my 14 yr old son who had some "I helped grandma" money buring a hole in his pocket.  We spent 1 hour in the mall in Foot Locker, Scheels and the Hat store.  We walked out of the mall with 2 Oregon Ducks shirts, 1 pair of Nike shorts and 1 Oregon Ducks hat.  That was the 1st time I had set foot in the mall in over a yr.  I do not like to shop (ask my mother), I do not like crowds (ask my husband) and I do not like buying name brand clothes when I can find the same thing at Walmart for 1/2 the price (ask my kids).  Anyways, I have never concidered myself  to be hoarding clothes.  Now I know differently.  Today I own:
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Shirts: 26
Church blouses: 6
long sleeved: 7
Cami's: 2
Jeans: 8 (3 still have tags on them)
workout pants: 2
shorts: 11
sweatshirts: 5
sweaters: 6
lightweight coats: 7
heavy coat: 1
pj pants: 2
pj shirts:4
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I havent gotten to my closet yet.  I only keep dresses and shoes there.  I will get to that in a minute.
So I think 26 shirts is a lot, but then I realize that most of them are work shirts (I work fulltime mid April to the end of October as a professional landscaper),I have decided that I do truely need 2 sets of clothes.  One set for everyday living and 1 set for working.  And since I am not working full time during the winter months, those clothes will go into a box in my closet.  All of my shorts are work shorts, but I will only keep 4,  2 of my sweatshirts are work sweatshirts and 2 pairs of jeans are designated as work jeans.  Still, I  need to get these numbers down.  How many work shirts do I really need? 4 of them have the companies name on them, so I'll keep those.  1 sweatshirt has the company name on it so it will go in the box too.  My 2 work jeans will go in to.  If I have any hard dirty work to do this winter I will just go to the box and pull them out.  I will put 1 more shirt in so I have 5 for 5 business days.

Now for the rest.  I have norrowed it down to:
2 jeans
1 sweatshirt
5  short sleeved shirts
1 black long sleeved shirt
1 pj bottoms
1 pj top
3 dress blouses ( I got rid of the other 3 because the were basically the same black shirt that I always buy because black is slimming)
I did keep an extra 2 t-shirts not listed in my 5 above because they are shirts from the kids high school and I need those to wear to school sporting events.
1 sweater that I can wear casual and to church
1 light jacket
1 winter coat
undergarments dont count.  I dont have an over-abundance anyways.  enough undergarments, 3 bras and socks that I keep in a laundry basket in the corner of my room as a jumbled mess.  I do not match the socks because the "fashion" now (so I'm told) is not to have matching socks, so I let the girls pull from the basket and it saves me a boat load of time!

I have a dresser with 6 drawers.  I barely fill 3 now.  Good feeling. A  Really REALLY good feeling. Laundry day should be a snap now :)

As I get up from the floor I look up to see my husbands dresser.  It's the 20 hats pilled on top that catches my attention.....Really! 20 hats.  And that's not including the other 20-30 in the closet.  We'll save that for another day.......