Seven months left to cull my clothes mountain - advice please
So I’m hoping this awesome group can help me determine the ‘best’ way to cull the accumulation of clothes that I have (and deal with the various emotions I’m feeling about the whole thing).
For context I have a walk in wardrobe and two additional double plus wardrobes that are completely full with either hanging or boxed up clothing. This clothing includes current rotation and goes back to probably 2008. It spans sizes 10/12 to 18/20.
Where I need advice. I have been contemplating this decluttering task for sometime and have done some mini episodes however I want to really attack it and I’m unsure if the best way is to hang everything and group it by item e.g all the striped dresses I have or sort it by size and cull from there?
I will say I tried the Marie Kondo method in early 2019 and it nearly drove me to drink and weep simultaneously. I pulled all my clothes out and put them in a pile and it broke my will to live.
I feel I am about as mentally prepared as I can be although I have turned away from the task due to the enormity in the past couple of months. I also worry about throwing away (whether that is donating or selling [pretty unlikely]) things I haven’t worn, things that still have tags on them, clothes that fitted previously and I love but don’t fit now but might after I start taking medication.
I have been looking into what happens when clothes are donated so now I feel even more guilt that I’ll be adding to the problem if I manage to actually cull anything as part of this clothing declutter.
And finally I brought all of these clothes with me on this overseas posting (husband is military) and promised myself that I’d go home slimmer than I arrived and that I will free myself of the boxes and boxes of clothes before I leave to return home (four years later). I haven’t worked while my husband and I have been overseas but I will return to work when we go home so I have a whole bunch of work clothes (various sizes) that are in a holding pattern until they come back into rotation.
I have until the end of the to reduce what we pack to take home and I realised that a few iterations is likely the most productive way to do this. Any advice with the starting point and method would be so so appreciated.
Help. Thank you 🙏🏼.