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Hanes Wants You to Clean Out Your Drawers!

1 Comment 25 March 2011

Have you checked your drawers lately?

Take a second and go open a few of your sock and underwear drawers. Then, come back and tell me what you see. I’ll wait.

I’m serious. Go. Go!

Welcome back. Let me guess what you found. Socks with holes, underwear that you can’t find the matching bra for, and maybe even a few pairs that are so old that your approximate guess is that they are well past the 3 year mark.

Maybe, just maybe, you’re like 50 percent of Americans who, according to a national survey commissioned by Hanes, admit to having more than just socks and undies in those very specifically designated drawers. I have a few greeting cards in mine that I stashed there for safe keeping. I never took them out.

According to that same survey, you will only ever wear 70% of what is hiding in those drawers. Do you know what you could do with 30% more space?

To help to inspire you, Hanes has enlisted the help of Bethenny Frankel of “Bethenny Ever After” and Michael Moloney of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”

“Staying organized helps me save time and keeps me sane,” said Frankel. “I need to be able to quickly get what I need from my drawers and know that, without a doubt, it’s going to fit correctly and look good. While it’s nice to keep old items for sentimental reasons, it’s important to set aside time to purge, donate and replenish. You’ll feel great afterward!”

As you can see, if you are hoarding clothes in there, you’re not alone. Studies show that for men, hoarding is directly related to nostalgia (which immediately makes me think of my fiance, Morgan, who has every geeky/web startup/tech t-shirt known to man for the last TEN YEARS piled up in neat stacks on top of his dresser) and for women it has become simply a habit, perhaps related to the concern that if we somehow miss laundry day, then we will be forced to go commando!

Hanes has partnered with Goodwill Industries and its Donate Movement to educate all of us drawer hoarders about the importance of donating gently worn clothing.

As an interior designer, I try to help people live in a clutter-free zone and show them that being organized does not need to be agonizing,” said Moloney. “Many people tell me they avoid cleaning out their drawers because they don’t know what to do with the items they don’t need any more. Making a donation to an organization like Goodwill

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  1. Winnie says:

    I loved this post! I think donating is the greatest idea ever and of course cleaning up my closet is the best of all :)


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