My sister swore by this method, and I ignored her for a year. Then I counted the shirts I actually wore in a month and realized it was maybe eight, in a closet of sixty. The hanger trick told me the truth in one afternoon.

How the hanger reversal method works

1. Turn every hanger in your closet so the hook faces the back.
2. When you wear something, put it back with the hook facing the front.
3. After three months, the backward hangers are the clothes you never touched.

No guessing. No emotional debate in front of the mirror. The hooks do the remembering for you.

What I found

After three months, about forty hangers had not moved. Some were gifts I felt guilty about, others were sizes I hoped to fit into again. Seeing the number made it easy to donate the lot.

I kept one dress I had worn once for a wedding, but everything else with a backward hook went into a bag. My closet now only holds clothes I reach for, and getting dressed in the morning takes half the time.

You can run the same system on your drawers with a folded-in-half trick for shirts.