4 Tips For Your Closets

1- Do not hang your sweaters.   Neatly fold and store either in drawers or on closet shelving .

2- Use shoe racks to keep shoes organized in pairs and off the floor.

3- Store small accessory items in drawers or small containers on shelves.

4-Do not store unrelated items in closets, such as; kids games with your clothes, your clothing in baby’ s room, kitchenware in coat closet.  Keep coats in the coat closets. Baby clothes in the baby’s rooms. Games with games, etc. 

Up Your Clothes Wearing Percentage

People wear about 30 to 50 percent of the clothes in their closet regularly. The tendancy is to wear the same stuff over and over. One example of the cycle is you wear a shirt and pants, they get dirty, you wash them and then wear them again a few days later. Multiply that by several sets of shirts and pants (or skirts and blouses).  Here is a tip that I feel increases your chances of wearing more of the clothes in your closet:

Group all of your shirts ( or blouses) together in your closet. There are ring dividers that you can buy. You can place the divider on the pole and then all the shirts on the left of that divider will be clothes you've worn and all the clothes on the right are for you to wear.  When you start all the clothes will be hanging to the right of the divider. Wear the tops starting  left first and go across. If the shirt isn't dirty, rehang it on the far left. If the shirt is dirty and later you wash it, rehang it on the far left. Now the key is to continue going right when picking a shirt.  With the ring dividers, its easy to keep track.

Also try that with your pants, skirts, dresses too.

Mayday Mayday!

Continuing my theme this week, I'm going to challenge you again today on May 1st! Spring is in full effect! Hopefully you have been taking my small steps this week in the Spring Cleaning process. If you haven't I challenge you to go back and do each one! These little steps will do wonders for your space AND they wont take up much of your time! Today's challenge is in the closet!

I want everyone to go to their closets with either clothes or jackets and coats in them. If its a closet with just one bar to hang everything that's what you'll work on. If the closet has multiple sides and bars, just pick ONE side or bar. Then pull out everything that is old, tattered, stains, stretched and if its clothes, you can possibly make them into rags for cleaning  (cotton is great for that) Or throw them out. I'm not one for donating bad clothing. Not nice. OR go through and pick out everything that doesn't fit, or you haven't worn in years. And I mean 3 to 5 years. Give away or donate. Put in a bag immediately for take out.

I do make ONE exception with coats and jackets. IF you REALLY forgot it was back there, then this is a great time to see it. If you really think you will NOW wear it, then rotate it to the front of the line so that it doesn't get lost again. (I have done that with my shoes.)

How does it look in their now? More space? How long did that take you? How does it feel?
Spring cleaning doesnt  have to happen at once for 8 hours. Smaller, quicker cleaning moments work as weel.

I Need Room For That Jacket

Do you have a hard time fitting your newly bought clothes in your closet? Maybe its time to thin out.

One suggestion is to take time out of a day and go through and take out the old clothes and/or clothes you don't wear anymore. There might be things that could be folded instead of hung. Take those out. The plan is to have a less than full closet so that when you do need to hang something up, it will be easier.