An organized closet can help save you time when looking for what you need.
No matter how spotless you keep your home, having a cluttered closet can make you feel unorganized and like you live in filth. Cluttered closets are huge time wasters; why spend 15 minutes looking for something you recently saw when you could have it in a moment's time if your closet were tidy and organized? It may seem like a big, time-consuming undertaking, but if you do it right, it's not, plus it will be well worth the effort. Reducing the clutter in your closet will save you time and frustration. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Get rid of the things you do not use. Sounds easy enough, but when rifling through the closet, you will probably convince yourself that you use everything. Try taking out all of your clothes and hang them facing the opposite direction. When you wear an item, hang it back up facing the normal direction. After a certain amount of time (a month to a year), you can assess what it is you do not use very often, because they will be on hangers facing the opposite direction.
2. Take the items you no longer use and separate them from your closet. Creative Homemaking suggests separating these items into four piles: dump, donate, decide and sell.
3. Put seasonal items in storage. Rather than have your winter coats dominate your closet in the middle of summer, put them away in storage bins in your attic or garage until you need them. Then switch out your winter wardrobe with your summer wardrobe. Closet Hanger Factory recommends storing them on a hanging bar on hangers somewhere out of sight in order to make transferring between the two wardrobes less time consuming and to prevent wrinkles.
4. Find an alternative spot for some of the things taking up space in your closet. Rather than keeping all of your shoes in your cluttered closet, consider purchasing an under-the-bed shoe storage unit in order to utilize unused space and to free up some space in your closet.
5. Take the donated items you identified to a charitable organization that can use them. Be sure to collect your 501(c)3 receipt so you can use the donation as a tax write-off.
6. Organize a garage sale or list some of your sell items online. Use some of the cash you earn toward a closet storage solution to help you keep your closeted goods organized.
7. Revisit your decide pile a few weeks after you uncluttered your closet. Once your closet is cleaner, you will be able to reassess with fresh eyes which of the decide item you must keep and which you can live without.
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