Well, hello there and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you are listening to

episode 224 of the Sustainable Minimalist Podcast, a twice-weekly show about intentional and eco-minimalist living.

On today's show I am answering a listener's question all about how should we store clothes

that don't currently fit.

Now I'm going to read the question verbatim,

and I should say right off the bat that I am so sorry to the listener

who wrote to me this question,

I don't know your name. So I'm just going to call you nice listener and I'm so

sorry I wish I had your name to personalize this but nice listener's question is as follows. She writes,

I have a number of things that don't fit in boxes in the top of my cupboard.

My weight fluctuates so frequently, and I have a newborn,

that it seems irresponsible to get rid of things that don't fit. Yet I hate having clutter.

I would love to hear others opinions in a podcast on this.

Close storage and when do you just let it go? All right. Well I have so many thoughts on

this topic. As somebody who does keep clothes that don't currently fit,

I should say that as I made an outline for this episode, I found myself thinking about those clothes and found myself

thinking long and hard about why on earth I'm keeping them around. This episode

is in two parts. The first part is a little bit more psychological. Like why are we holding on to

clothes that don't fit? What does it say about us currently? What does it say about

our hopes, dreams, and futures? Then we're going to take a quick break for this episode's second sponsor, and then we're going to move into part two. Part two is definitely more pragmatic. Part two is how exactly how specifically do you store clothes that don't currently fit that you can't or aren't currently wearing?

I'm a minimalist, right? But even as a self-described minimalist I have to say I do hold

on to clothes that don't currently fit I don't know why I do it actually I should say I have a better idea as to why I do it after

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