Dressing Yourself
As of late, I've been trying a new system for handling my day to day apparel. It's basically a queue system of super simple shirts and and jeans that get chosen in an ordered "fashion." I might not have my mom around to lay my clothes out for me anymore, but I can certainly devise a system that works like a mom, which delegates complexity, and ultimately provides a system to handle such a chore.
To be perfectly honest, I'm not super interested in what I pick out each day. I want it to be clean and I want it to be straightforward. In order for this system to work, I needed to homogenize my outfits, randomize them, then arrange the system for easy selection. In detail, what this implies is that I now only have 20 or so t-shirts in my primary "clothing queue," which has then been completely ordered in a random fashion on my hangers. T-shirts can be graphic tees, to plain white tees. The important part here is that they're all more or less in the same category of dress apparel. They're all things that I can wear on a day to day basis, to work, around the house or out with the family for dinner.
Rather that going about my daily clothing selection via randomized pattern that asks "do I want to wear this today?" - I now simply pull the first shirt off the queue. Clean laundry goes at the bottom of the queue, and works it way back up the top. Time well saved. There are enough choices that we get to make on a day to day basis, saving some of that intellectual milage can be pretty darn helpful.
While I still have a plenty of other clothes in my closet that I wear for other occasions where t-shirts won't cut it, by and large I've managed to not only simplify my day to day fashion choices, but I've also been able to simplify the amount of clothing items I need. I can go most months with two pairs of jeans, a couple dozen shirts and one or two pairs of shoes.
It turns out dressing yourself really isn't that hard after all.
