Bedroom and Wardrobe

Next it was time to tackle the last rooms with garbage cans; the bedrooms. Even though these garbages produce the least amount of waste there's still room for reduction. This week was also focused on the closets packed tight with forgotten items.

Family context:

There are only two garbage cans out of the three bedrooms and half the time they're filled with random things. For this week I was mainly focused on the closets because while we might not throw away items every week there are definitely jackets, shoes, shirts and more that we don't need and that we can get rid of in a waste free way.

My Plan:

The first thing Bea Johnson recommended was to remove the garbage cans from the bedrooms. Since they hold an insignificant amount of waste it's easy to walk to the other garbage cans. Her tips for closet decluttering included:

Don’t follow trends, follow style (aka don't buy new clothes for a social reason)
Identify favorites
Eliminate items that can’t be paired three or more different ways
Eliminate duplicates
Take ripped and worn out clothes to be recycled, donate old shoes

The ultimate goal here is to have a closet full of things to wear. As for the miscellaneous items such as clothing tags, those can be saved and thrown into the recycling pile.

what actually happened:

My mom and I took the closet cleaning challenge and both ended up with sizable piles of things we don't wear or need anymore. All of it was donated too! Over the holidays I also made sure that if I bought something it would last a while. I ended up leaving the garbage cans in our rooms but instead they were used as recycling bins.

My mom's donation

Part of my donation

Data analysis:

As I mentioned before the garbage in these rooms was pretty insignificant, but if you look at the records you'll notice a decrease over time which helped keep the garbage bag count to two again!

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