Organize your Closet – Painlessly!
It’s like a scene from a comedy movie. You open the storage closet door, and desperately scramble with both arms and legs to keep an avalanche from falling down on you. Soccer balls, shoes, gloves, and hats rain down on your head. Are you ready to clean up your act? Let us help!
First, take a serious look at what’s hiding in your closet. How much of this do you really need – or use on a regular basis? What about that old jacket you haven’t worn for three years, or the glove that you kept from last winter, hoping you’d eventually find the mate to it?
If the surplus supplies are in good shape, consider donating them to a local charity organization. Let them benefit someone else, and free you of unneeded clutter! (They can also serve as a tax deduction too, if you donate them to a non-profit organization.)
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Throw out the matchless gloves or holey boots – or find a way to recycle them. Face it, that extra shoe is never going to reappear, so it’s time to move on.
Invest in some closet organizing supplies, such as plastic coat hangers, shoe organizers, shelving, and plastic tubs or study boxes. Plastic coat hangers are sturdier than wire coat hangers, and they don’t get bent out of shape, leaving your good clothes all over the closet floor. If ties are an essential accessory, add a tie rack to your must-haves.
Whether you choose shoe racks, or opt for an over-the door plastic organizer, putting your shoes together means you’ll be able to avoid the problem of the lost sole. Those extra shelving units you purchased are excellent for storing sporting supplies or extra sweaters. You can use the plastic tubs and boxes for hats, scarves, and gloves. (Hint: label a separate box for each person in the family, so everyone will know exactly where to find their treasures.)
Organize belts and bags by hanging them on (separate) long hooks. If you have a larger number of pants or trousers, specially made coat hangers are available that allow you to hang several pairs safely on one hanger. Odds and ends – designate a separate tub for them.
One of the key points to organizing a community closet is to get everyone in the family on board. Showing each person where things should be put and reminding them that they are responsible for helping to keep the closet clean. Sharing the responsibility for the project helps keep you from feeling overwhelmed by everything. Of course, if the closet is your own personal clothes closet, well, sometimes, you just have to shoulder the burden.
Once you’ve finished organizing the closet, you’ll be surprised – and pleased by how much better you feel about it. Having clutter hiding behind closed doors, just lying there in wait for you, can be quite stressful. Now you can relax. Staying organized doesn’t have to be painful, and it will help you get rid of that clutter monster that’s been hiding in your closet!
This article was provided courtesy of the artists and designers who work to develop PebbleZ’s line of rustic home décor products. The actual text of the article was researched and written by Joey Pebbble, an author and expert on natural organizational designs.
