When cleaning out a client's wardrobe, one thing I hear a lot is a worried 'How much money did I spend on clothes I'm not wearing?' when they look to the pile of clothes we're removing. With the new year fast approaching, many of us get the cleaning bug. We want to cull our wardrobes, our pantry's, our garages, heck, even our makeup bags - but sometimes we don't just want to throw the items away - we'd prefer to donate or sell them.

If your jeans are intentionally faded, fabulous! But most of the time, we buy a great pair of jeans and it's not long until our lovely denim duds have faded so much that we feel a little ripped off.

When we buy our jeans from the store, we try them on, twirl around in them, check our backsides, do the sit test and finally, hopefully, make a decision that they’re the winning pair. With all that fuss, only months later, you’ve got saggy jeans that look years old, have faded significantly and you don’t know why, but I do.