Retirement closet declutter
Today is day 100 of my countdown to retirement, and I’ve hit a very important milestone: staring at my corporate wardrobe like it’s a museum exhibit of a former life.
I currently work somewhere jeans are acceptable, so my “C-suite armor” (aka serious suits that mean business and possibly emotional damage) are seeing less and less daylight. At this point they’re basically just hanging around waiting for a reunion tour that may never come.
So I’m wondering—when did you start clearing out your work clothes? Did you wait until retirement, or start slowly releasing them into the wild like emotional support garments?
My current plan is to keep about a week’s worth of “I might have to pretend I’m important” outfits and let the rest go.
I’ve had mixed luck with donations—local options are inconsistent, and my attempts to pass things along in buy/sell groups basically confirmed that corporate wear has entered its “nobody wants this but it’s too nice to bin” era.
So what did you do with yours? And how long did it take after that last day of work to say enough, time to live somewhere else?