CAPSULE WARDROBE

The hundreds of clothes jammed into her small closet, were, as she puts it, "overwhelming". Dozens of graphic T-shirts and trendy blouses that seemed like a good idea at the time now collected dust and wrinkles.

"Thinking about what I was going to wear was exhausting," says Suzette Schermer, of Edina, Minnesota.

Tired of staring into a defunct mess of clothes and coming up with nothing to wear, the 44-year-old PR consultant and hospice caregiver did something drastic.