Organized drawers keeps what you need at your fingertips.
Organized clothes drawers can save you time in the early morning chaos before work or school and reduce your stress levels. Purchased or homemade clothing organizers and dividers make it easier to both put laundry away and find what you are looking for in the dash to get dressed. Best yet, when your dresser looks so neat and organized you are less tempted to overstuff it, and may be encouraged to reduce clutter. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Decide what you will put in each of your clothes drawers based on their sizes and ease of use. The clothes that you reach for the most should be in the middle dresser drawers that you can pull out easily. Heavier clothes like jeans and bulky sweaters and sweatshirts can go in the bottom drawer, which is often deeper. Small drawers at the top of the dresser are suitable for lingerie and socks, as these lightweight items don't take up as much space.
2. Price drawer organizers online and in local home goods stores. Even if these are too pricey for your pocketbook, they can give you some ideas for the types of compartments and dividers you may find useful.
3. Measure the depth and width of your dresser drawers with a measuring tape. Note the measurements of each drawer.
4. Gather some empty shoeboxes, cereal boxes and sheets of cardboard. They should be clean and dry. Select contact paper that coordinates with your bedroom decor, if you wish. Ensure the shoeboxes are short enough to fit in your lingerie drawer and cover one or more with the contact paper -- inside and out. The vinyl contact paper helps the thin cardboard stand up to more daily wear and tear. Cut down cereal boxes with a craft knife to the height of your drawer and cover with contact paper to make your own hosiery organizer. Use the sides and top of the box to cut several more of these narrow sleeves to hold folded or balled socks, tights and pantyhose -- the bottom of the drawer can serve as the bottom of the box. Cut sheets of corrugated cardboard to the depth and width of lower drawers to serve as upright dividers for stacks of folded T-shirts, sweaters and jeans. Cover with contact paper.
5. Empty out all your drawers and line each with contact paper. Place all your storage organizers and dividers in each drawer neatly.
6. Fold all your clothes and place them neatly in each of your dividers and storage organizers. Take the opportunity to donate to charity any item you haven't worn in a year and to put aside off-season clothing for storage.
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