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"It&amp;#x27;s officially arrived. Time to spring-clean, people. And whether you love or hate it, you might want to get started. I interviewed Jill Martin, author of The Weekend Makeover and creator of QVC organizational line The Martin Project for tips and tricks for getting your closet in shape. Glamour: What&amp;#x27;s one easy way to organize the items hanging in your closet? Jill Martin: OK, so here you see that I have a bunch of different-color hangers. I use those to color code my closet. I got the idea because one day I was looking at my closet and I had no emotion. I didn&amp;#x27;t know what was for work, I didn&amp;#x27;t know what was for play. I just had no emotion. And I was like, What if I color code it? Not by item, but emotion. Yellow to me is, like, fun. What if all my &amp;quot;fun&amp;quot; stuff was on yellow? Navy is sort of my neutral color, so all of my work stuff is on navy hangers. I sort of picked it by personality, and I want everybody to pick it by personality. I want everybody to say, &amp;quot;What&amp;#x27;s my night-out look? What&amp;#x27;s my day look? What needs more of a pop?&amp;quot; and then assign a color hanger to it. Glamour: Smart. I couldn&amp;#x27;t even tell you where half of the stuff is in my closet right now. Jill Martin: You have to get your stuff out there and organized because if you&amp;#x27;re not seeing it, then nobody else is. You really need to ditch everything that&amp;#x27;s not a 10. If it&amp;#x27;s an 8, it goes. Why shouldn&amp;#x27;t it always be a 10, right? Let&amp;#x27;s say you wear a sweater today, let&amp;#x27;s say you&amp;#x27;re going out with friends at night, that group didn&amp;#x27;t see you. And you&amp;#x27;re like, &amp;quot;I love that sweater.&amp;quot; You&amp;#x27;re going to wear it again. We all do that. You&amp;#x27;re not going to pick the sweater that has pills on it. We all make up crazy stories like when we&amp;#x27;re going to wear things. If someone is whipping you away to Tahiti on a private jet, you&amp;#x27;re going to go shopping. You&amp;#x27;re not going to wear that random top you&amp;#x27;ve held on to for so long for no reason. Glamour: OK, so how often do you think a girl should go through her closet and purge? Jill Martin: I think every six months. I think it&amp;#x27;s extreme to ask people to do it every three months, but I think every six months and you have a girlfriend sit on the bed, and you make a pile of 10s and that stays in your closet, and then you make another pile of Nos, and another pile of Maybes. Most of the time the Maybes shouldn&amp;#x27;t stay, but if you open a bottle of champagne, have your friend on the couch, and you walk out, she&amp;#x27;ll be honest and be like &amp;quot;that&amp;#x27;s amazing!&amp;#x27;&amp;quot;or &amp;quot;why would you pick something that&amp;#x27;s not amazing?&amp;quot; Like that scene in Sex and the City&amp;amp;#8212;ditch it, keep it! I believe in that. And it&amp;#x27;s an honest friend, not like your mother who thinks you look fabulous in everything. I would say every six months you should do that. Glamour: I&amp;#x27;m the queen of cleaning out my closet, and then it just sits in a garbage bag next to my door for the following six months. Would you suggest getting rid of the stuff right away or is it OK to think about the things you&amp;#x27;ve set aside? Jill Martin: I think everything gets out of your house day of. If you&amp;#x27;re selling stuff, there are consignment shops that pick up for you. The rest, I would donate. Make it a point to donate. It&amp;#x27;s a nice thing. I use this place Collette&amp;amp;#8212;she comes and picks it up from my doorman and it goes. You make money in your closet. Who doesn&amp;#x27;t want to make money getting rid of stuff? Glamour: What would you say is the number one organizational mistake women make? Jill Martin: I think it&amp;#x27;s keeping things for the wrong reasons. Like, &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m keeping this because my ex-boyfriend gave this to me.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s designer. I paid for it.&amp;quot; All of that stuff goes if it&amp;#x27;s no good. Get dressed like you&amp;#x27;re going to run into your ex-boyfriend every day. Even in sweats. You should never have sweats with holes in them. I&amp;#x27;d rather you have two sweatshirts and wash them and wear them over and over again because they&amp;#x27;re your best and favorite sweatshirts. I feel like it&amp;#x27;s about purging and letting go, and then of course I want people to buy my things, but I want people to get rid of things and then buy my pieces because life will be better. For more tips, tune in to QVC for Jill Martin&amp;#x27;s Minute Closet Makeover on Friday, April 12, at 8 P.M. ET, for a firsthand look at Martin&amp;#x27;s closet organizational line. Photo: Courtesy of Jill Martin "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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