Thanks Unfrumped! I love the idea of the music and the wine! I may just forget about the sweaters altogether!!

Mo, your drawer looks nice and neat. I can see one like that in my future! Perhaps I will post a picture also to show the progress and results - that may include the sweaters on the bed plus the empty bottle of wine!!

Not sure what else I can suggest but the typo heave sweaters cracks me up & makes me think of fashion bulimia.

This has been an interesting thread....I live in a very different climate so it is fascinating to see how long you will need warm sweaters for. I do seek more variety in my clothes in winter than summer-although I wash clothes more in summer and go out more! But I buy less for winter and feel more like I need a boost.

In such a long winter you need variety and it seems many forum members live in skinny jeans and boots, so the main way to get variety is from the top half. A large sweater wardrobe is fine then!

I think you could quickly cull 10 through wear and tear, fits that don't work for you, or colour preference. I would then say "No more Sweaters" in a loud and stern voice until you have tried to wear the remaining at least once. After wearing them you may be ready to cull a few and then you could start to allow new ones in??

I've never counted my sweaters. My first reaction was "I'd own 80 if I could find that many that FIT" because one of my big frustrations is finding quality sweaters in petite sizes. That's improved over recent years so I shouldn't kvetch too much! I easily have 40 sweaters/sweater dresses. Over that, I cannot say.

For storage, I am very very limited. I use two rolling wire mesh kitchen carts that fit nicely underneath my hanging tops in my closet. Each has three drawers. I can pack a lot of sweaters in each drawer. I swap out seasonally, so 1/3rd of my collection will be tucked away in storage at any given time. I do not roll, but that is a great idea and I'm going to try that.

Advantage to wire mesh carts, in addition to being able to roll them in and out to see what I have and to tidy up etc, is that the wire allows air to circulate. I find this is important for sweaters, which you probably don't wash every wear.

When it comes to thinning the sweater horde, each time I rotate, I cull out those that are pilled/overly worn/threadbare; those that are past their fashion prime (I'm looking at you, ruffled sweater); those that are not classic/neutral colors but appealed of-the-moment, yet did not flatter all that much.

Assuming in good shape, I'd hold on tight to any skirt-length sweaters, or body con sweaters. Right now oversized shapes are in style, but fashions change like the wind. Glad to see you held on firm with the sweater sets. Tuck away any out of fashion items for now, if you have storage. Because I have noticed a very definite downward trend in terms of sweater quality over the years. So a high quality wool or cashmere sweater is totally worth holding on to, even if you are just not feeling it right now.

I took another look at my sweaters last night to see if there were any that I could easily pull based on colors that I no longer wear. I quickly picked out three. I pulled two of the cashmere tee's because they are pilling and I haven't been able to rescue them. I have two sweaters that are identical in color, and they are v-necks so I can get rid of one of them. That will be 6 sweaters eliminated. The rest can wait until I do a more careful analysis of color and style.

Four of the sweaters I pulled out are in perfect shape, I am looking for suggestions of what to do with them? My typical fallback is to bring things to the Salvation Army.