Closets, estates and moves
It is a move to somewhere smaller. It is a family home that has to be cleared by a date. It is a wardrobe nobody has opened in a year because opening it is the hard part. Whatever brought you here, you do not have to work out where any of it should go on your own.
No cost, no obligation, and a straight answer either way. Free pickup across Middle Tennessee, and a prepaid shipping label anywhere else.
You are probably here for one of these
There is a date to work to and a hundred decisions to make, and clothing is rarely the one anyone knows how to handle. Send photographs whenever you get to it. We will take the pieces worth wearing again and tell you honestly what happens to each one.
Forty years of wardrobe will not fit in the new place, and most of it is better than anything on a shop rail today. We make the leaving part easier and quicker, at no cost to anyone.
Nobody is wearing it, nobody wants to throw it away, so it stays. That is the most ordinary story there is, and it is a perfectly good reason to write to us.
Why it matters where it goes
Clothing handed to a bulk collection is weighed, baled and sold by the pound. It is not looked at. A wool coat someone chose carefully in 1974 and a stained fleece leave the room in the same sack, and by the time anyone opens it the coat is worth more as rag than as a coat.
We do the opposite. One piece at a time, looked at by a person, mended if it needs it, photographed exactly as it arrives and sold to someone who went looking for precisely that. What we take but cannot sell is passed on to people who need it. None of it is binned, and none of it sits in our storage waiting for a decision.
The best clothes have already been made. Every one that changes hands is one nobody has to make again.
How it works
Email a few pictures and a rough idea of what is there. An open closet, a rail, a pile on a bed. No measuring, no sorting, no cleaning.
Usually within a day. A yes, an offer, or a plain no with the reason and a suggestion of somewhere better. We will never leave you waiting to find out whether anything happened.
Free pickup anywhere in Middle Tennessee, at a time that suits the family. Further away, we email you a prepaid shipping label, so posting the pieces we accept costs you nothing.
What we are best at
We are a small operation with a narrow specialty, so we would rather point you somewhere better than take a box we cannot do justice to.
Cleaning Out My Closet is operated by Sammy Leigh Vintage, a vintage clothing business in Franklin, Tennessee. We are a business, not a charity.
That means a gift to us is a gift to a company. It is not tax deductible and we cannot issue a tax receipt. If being able to claim a deduction matters to you, a registered charity is the right choice and we will happily say so.
Nothing we accept goes into a landfill. What we cannot sell is passed on, and if you would rather be paid for a piece than give it away, say so and we will make an offer instead.
One photograph and a sentence about the situation is plenty. If you would rather talk it through before sending anything at all, that is what the inbox is for.