Hello, hello, welcome back to EcoSheek. My name is Laura Diaz. I hope you're doing so great today.

We have got a how-to episode today, and I feel like we haven't done one of these in a little while.

And today we're talking about how to clean out your closet, how to consciously declutter your clothing.

This episode has kind of been a long time in the making.

I really started taking a lot of these tips that I'm going to share today to heart after

reading The Conscious Closet by Elizabeth Klein.

And that was actually a book club episode, and I can link that in the show notes if you want

to go back and listen to our entire review of that book. I read it with my friend Moji. And around the time of

that book club episode of reading the conscious closet, my friend Megan McSherry of Activism,

who's also been on the show before, put out a really awesome comprehensive ebook around

conscious clothing and building a really conscious wardrobe.

And so I've been collecting these tips myself. Today's episode is kind of a compilation of all

of these things I've learned from different sources, but also through experience.

I've been going through this phase where I'm just heavily decluttering and going through my stuff and just really

trying to figure out what aligns with me, why I'm holding onto certain things, and what I

want my consumption to look like. And it's interesting because while I hold these tips in really

high regard, until you're really consciously thinking about a closet clean out or building a wardrobe

or what is your personal style, it's kind of hard to act on these things. Until you're really consciously thinking about a closet clean out or building a wardrobe or

what is your personal style, it's kind of hard to act on these things with clarity.

So I hope today's episode serves as a guide for all of us to think about not just a closet

clean out, but just what we want our wardrobes to look like moving forward, minimizing

consumption, really being

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