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by pidge 2875 days ago
A literal one that I probably picked up from another comment section here:

Treat your closet as an LRU cache—always put clothes away on one side, and start looking for items from the same side. As an added benefit when you run out of capacity, anything that has ended up on the far side is a likely candidate to be evicted to a higher latency storage layer (bins in the attic), or simply deleted and recomputed if ever needed again (just drop it off at Goodwill, you can always buy another).

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You also have to add a recompute expense to that calculation. The $500 3-piece suit that you only wear to special work events, weddings, etc. shouldn't get deleted just because you haven't used it in a year.
I've found clothing to be a problem because it tends to be a stack organization for things in drawers, which means you tend to keep pulling out the same few pairs of shorts, wearing them and putting them back, but the ones at the bottom stay untouched for years.