Earlier this week my husband asked me when I organized the kitchen cabinet. After I told him that I didn't, we argued (light-heartedly) back and forth whether I did or not. I would know after all if I had organized something, wouldn't I? Turns out I wouldn't. I had totally forgot that I had done it but my ever watchful husband who notices everything, noticed that I had added some new items to my kitchen stash in the basement. I created a shelf downstairs for those items that are used a few times a year so that I don't have to deal with them the other three hundred forty some days of the year. This is either a sign that this organizing is becoming second nature or that I'm losing my mind. You can choose.
This post isn't really about that cabinet, I just thought it was a funny story. I'm going to talk some more about my closets. When we finished our family room a few years ago we had three storage closets built. No, it wasn't because I needed the space (which I did), it was because our builder was a bonehead and put utilities in pretty much every corner of the basement. Oh well, we did need the storage space so I'm not going to complain to much.
I don't have a before picture because I just wanted to get it done but here is my final product. The picture is a little dark because when I turned on the closet light it added quite a bit of glare.
This closet was mostly used
Here are my steps:
- The first thing I did was pick up my heavy duty storage shelf at Lowe's that I've used in my other closets.
- Pulled all items out of the closet
- Swept & vacuumed area (we want to start with a clean area, don't we?)
- Sorted items, discarding those items no longer needed
- Stacked my luggage within same brands. Can you believe that the smaller bags actually fit inside the larger bags like a Russian Doll? I know - amazing isn't it?
- Neatly put everything back
What have you accomplished this week/month as far as organizing?
I'll be linking this up to I'm an Organizing Junkie and Organizing with Sandy
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I have been slowly working on organizing my bedroom closet for nearly a year now. When I moved in, I shoved a bunch of stuff in there so that I didn't have to look at it, and then it was too overwhelming to fix! Several months ago, though, I decided I didn't have to do the ENTIRE closet, I could just do one thing and be happy that it was done. So, I organized my hang up clothes so that tshirts were with tshirts, pants had their own place, the rest of the shirts were organized by sleeve length, etc. I go through once a month or so and get rid of some things. I could probably get rid of more, but I find a box or so every once in a while manageable in a way that a serious purging would not be. Since then, I have organized some shoe boxes, gone through at least two of the boxes in there, and worked a lot on the top shelf, even getting some storage bins for up there. I still need to do a lot more--more boxes, shoe purging, putting in some kind of shelves in the end spaces--but it looks so much better than it used to, and I can find things now, ;).
ReplyDeleteI hate organizing closets! Hate it! In the past, I always made my daughter help me. She didn't actually do anything - just kept me company. But no matter how hard I try, I can't keep the closets straightened. I fix them, enjoy them for a while, and then have to do it again. That's pretty much true of every closet. Fortunately I don't care too much. As long as they're not too bad and I don't have to look at it, it's fine with me. I wouldn't mind if they stayed tidy, but that doesn't seem possible.
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