Sorting t-shirts by joy!

I've just been reading The Life-Changing Magic of  Tidying by Marie Kondo. One of her methods is to sort through ones possessions, handling each one, and asking oneself "Does this give me joy?" and getting rid of everything that gets the answer "no".

One should start with all one's clothes tipped out of the wardrobe, the cupboards, and anywhere you have stashed them. I am doing section of clothes by section of clothes, and got rid of 10 scarves to the charity shop this week. Today was the turn of my t-shirts.

I had 4 caches of t-shirts - and later realised I had forgotten the cardboard drawer on the top of the wardrobe with black and white t-shirts in.

I have to also consider usefulness when deciding what clothes to chuck - I don't think a single pair of trousers give me joy!

I was amazed by how many polonecks and rollnecks I had in t-shirt type material. They're all too short for me to wear them on their own (with my tummy I prefer long tops) but I have kept them to wear under cardigans and jumpers and will watch carefully over the winter to see which ones I actually use.

I've discarded a lot of the long, round-necked t-shirts with short sleeves but kept those with long sleeves. Again these must be watched carefully to see if they really are 'useful'.

I have 14 for the charity shop and 2 for recycling. A little disappointed but a far greater get-rid-of rate than my normal sorting efforts. Also I've now got similar t-shirts together so they should now be easier to find.

Jumpers and cardigans next.