Miley Cyrus Organizes Her Tank Tops

Hannah Montana and "new" Sex in the City-star Miley Cyrus and her bff Mandy Jiroux filmed a very revealing video in Miley's closet. The video is part of the Miley and Mandy Show, a series of youtube videos that have gained an impressive, loyal following.

So
while the video shot in her Los Angeles-area home is highly
entertaining, it's much more interesting to watch the girls go through
16-year old Miley's closet and to downsize her extensive collection of
tank tops (stripes, sequins, animal prints, dogs,bubbles, screen
prints, zebra, Aztec, tie-die, beetle juice, jailhouse rock, little
bo-peep, stars and the shirt she wore when she first met actor Johnny Depp).

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As Miley continued to toss, stack and pile
her shirts and unwanted clothes into a mountain, we got to thinking, is
she really going through her closet the right way?  Here's a few
thoughts on what you can learn from watching Miley and Mandy:

It's like a tank top:

Much of the video centers around the fact that Miley's clothes all
seem to look like a tank top; they're hard to describe much less
organize. Instead of driving yourself crazy organizing all these crazy
pieces, we suggest she simply create a category in her closet called "knits" and put
the tank tops in that category. If you're lucky enough to have space,
hang your knits on huggable hangers so they don't slip off.

Use a Professional Organizer; get focused and save time:

Miley
is doing a great job letting go of unwanted clothes by herself.
However, she could possibly have been more efficient if she used a
professional organizer (specializing in closets) to help her gain
focus. Miley moves through her closet from shirts to tank tops to
purses and seems to skip over things. Like most, she gets distracted,
and doesn't seem to do a very thorough review job of going through
everything. An organizer can help her maintain the tasks and save time.

Don't make big pile of clothes, you'll be sorry:

Once
Miley and Mandy are finished, they're going to be left with a mountain
of clothes to process. It would have been much more efficient for them
to get some boxes, bags or laundry hampers ahead of time, place some
simple paper labels on the containers and toss the unwanted clothes
into the appropriate location. Now, she has to go through her clothes a
second time to pull out donations, trash, give-aways to friends and resale.
We bet she's going to go through the piles again, second guess herself,
and decide to put things back for keeping. There's nothing wrong with
that behavior, but if you're really determined to get rid of unworn
clothes, out of sight means out of mind. Touch the items only once and
get them out of sight and out of the house as soon as possible.

Make it fun:

We
love that Miley and Mandy are making the clutter clearing more fun by
doing it together. We also took note that Miley let go of items that
she had outworn long ago, like the outfit she wore when she first met
Johnny Depp.  Sentimentalism is a number one clutter creator. Bravo!

Images above courtesy g.n.o32 on flickr.

If Miley and Mandy were reading this blog post, what closet organizing techniques would you share with her?

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