Today the pole that I hang my shirts on broke, again. This is because I have too many shirts, but my previous efforts had proved successful, and my most worn shirts were on the right side of my closet.
I had recently come to the conclusion that the 80/20 rule applies to my apparel selection and usage. 80% of my shirt wearage comes from 20% of my shirts. So that means that I have lots of shirts I don't wear often, so I decided that I would get rid of some of them and give them away or donate them to charity (i.e. leave them in the front yard of the box house). So being an engineer I first had to inventory all of my shirts then eliminate. Here is a breakdown.
Some other points of note. I have 14 University of Michigan shirts, and I am keeping 12 of them. I am also keeping all 8 of my Box shirts. I kept both of my novelty sport jackets, but cut one of my two robes. I kept my jumpsuit and reflective vest, and my Markley Shirt just for Forest. I've also noticed that about 10% of my shirts came from Salvation Army and thrift stores.
So now I have all of my shirts organized within my closet, and I keep all of the empty hangars on the right side. While I was finishing up, I realized that I had done the first 4 of the 5 S's of lean manufacturing, Set In Order, Sort, Shine and Standardize. Now all I need to do is Sustain.
Now my problem is that I have all of these shirts that I don't want. I really don't want to have my Russell Reunion, IOE Bar Crawl and Lahser High School homecoming shirts sitting at Salvo. And I have spent 3 and a half years acquiring some of the best novelty clothes ware, that unfortunately I don't think I will have many more chances to wear. I've spent months badgering sorority girls to give me extra small sorority shirts, I don't want to see them gone. So if you want any of my sweet shirts, I plan on leaving them on the front dirt patch of the Box house in the next few days, anything that is left will go to Salvo or Value World.
4 comments:
The reason you had two Russell Reunion shirts is because you stole mine.
I want mine back. Save it from the front yard; I'll pick it up next week.
the XS sorority shirts would probably fit me, so save some for me!
also, nice work with the inventory analysis and pie charts. one 5S note for those scoring at home: you first Sort, then Set. in practice you actually did this in the right order, FYI.
I had wanted to size the pie charts so they accurately depicted the number of shirts which they represented. With that the left chart would have been suitably larger than the right, but I don't think excel supports this type of relative graph sizing, and I didn't have time to write my own excel macro to do it.
Yesss - that Markley shirt is going to be worth something someday. Count on it.
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