Carve out 15 or 20 minutes to dress. Lay your outfit out on a scarf or colorful towel before putting it on. Encourage yourself to integrate jewelry or accessories. Put on music. Spray Febreze evocatively through the air! Keep fresh flowers or a plant on your bathroom vanity table, even if it’s a single bud in a tiny vase!

And don’t forget to hang up your clothes at the end of the day, airing them out for a few hours, if you can. As Cheryl Mendelson writes in “Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House,” airing out your clothes allows excess moisture to evaporate, making them less likely to deteriorate and smell, or attract moths.

Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something…