You have just about organized and de-cluttered your child’s room, and all of the toys, clothes and other necessitates have been successfully picked up off the floor. Don't forget about those items stuffed in the dressers drawers. These should be organized as well. Follow these simple guidelines and your child’s dresser drawers will be organized. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Remove everything out of the dresser drawers and clean them. Remove all the dust and stains. There is no reason to even start organizing those drawers until they are clean.
2. Make four stacks of the items you just removed from the drawers. There should be a “useable stack,” a “donate stack,” a “sentimental keep stack” and a “trash stack.” Look at each item to make sure that is it the right size and that it isn’t torn or stained. There is no use in keeping or donating it if it isn’t useable, unless it has a specific sentimental value. Donate what is useable, store those sentimental items elsewhere and trash what can’t be used. Get things down to just one stack--the “useable stack.”
3. Group similar useable items together. Put long sleeve shirts together, short sleeve shirts together and toys together. Make sure to separate the clothing that is out of season to be stored elsewhere to save more space. If there are matching outfits, be sure they are not separated.
4. Designate a specific drawer for each group you have just created. If drawer space is limited, put all of the shirts in one drawer instead of long sleeve shirts in one drawer and short sleeve shirts in another. Simply place them in different stacks.
5. Fold and stack like colors together. If you have a lot of matching outfits, those can be placed in one specific drawer together. Make sure everything you place in the drawers belong in a drawer and not hung up in the closet.
6. Use plastic storage containers or baskets inside the drawers for smaller items, like socks and toy cars. Plastic zipper bags can also be used to store these items.
7. Label the outside of each drawer and storage container. For younger children, you can label the drawers with both a picture of what is inside as well as the word. Always be on the look out for learning opportunities; these labels will help with word recognition. These labels can even be color-coordinated to match the décor of the room.
8. Show your child and anyone responsible for putting items in the drawers how they are organized. Explain that this will make finding things and putting things away easier for everyone.
9. Check each drawer every time something is put back in a drawer. Re-fold and re-stack items as necessary. This will help keep the drawers organized.
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