Seeing leaves starting to change colors, noticing day light getting a bit shorter, feeling crisp fall air arriving to tame hot summer weather, and taking advantage of back-to-school sales are some of the many ways I know that fall has arrived. Growing up, fall was officially the day my mother put away her summer clothes in her old hope chest and took out the fall/winter clothes to put in her bedroom drawers. She kept her hope chest in the basement, so it didn’t clutter up the master bedroom. Switching clothes in and out of storage when the season changed was a great chance for her to go through clothes twice a year to make sure she got rid of clothes she didn’t wear or didn’t like anymore and kept only the things that still looked sharp and flattering. After switching her clothes over, she would call her favorite non-profit organization to come pick up the clothes she no longer wanted. Nowadays, there are even more non-profits that take old clothes, including ones that recycle the most worn-out items.
Do you have a seasonal organizing tradition for the end of summer or beginning of fall?
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