Bedroom Closet Clean up (part 3) - Simple tricks to fit more in your closet

So, have you done it?  Have you started cleaning out your bedroom clothes closet?  Have you found stuff you forgot was there?  Let me encourage you, don't be tempted to keep the stuff you forgot you had!  If you haven't noticed it was gone or forgot about it altogether, that's a good indication that you really didn't need it!

Here are a few tips that I have to help you actually organize your closet.

• Have all the hangers facing one direction, so your shirt/dress is always hung in one direction (front facing left or right).  You can see from this picture that just hanging them always facing the same way makes your closet look neater and nicer.
• Try and have the same color of hanger or type of hanger (color is especially nice, though). I have slowly over the years weeded out the hangers I don't like and got hangers that match and look uniform. 
• If you have dresser drawers or drawers in your closet consider folding your shirts and lining them up like below.  Most people will lay shirts on top of one another, but you can actually get more room by just taking them a step further and folding it over one more time.

1. Lay out shirt
2. Turn over and fold over sleeves
3. Fold bottom to top
4. Turn over to front of shirt
5. Fold in half again
6. There you go, shirt is smaller

Now, if you look down in the drawer to pick out a shirt for the day, you can SEE all the color and shirts in your drawer and you can actually fit a lot more shirts in your drawer!

The top picture is my shirt drawer, with a divider in between.  The bottom drawer is my daughters' shirt drawer with no divider between.  See how easy it is for your kids, especially, to pick out a shirt more easily without making a big mess too - trying to dig out that shirt way on the bottom of the pile?  It's easy and simple.

To make your closet look nice, I suggest you get yourself some other things. I have a ton of purses, I love them!  But, they don't look very nice.  So, I bought some inexpensive cardboard boxes at Ikea for $1.95 for a set of three (they were on clearance).  They didn't fit, so I cut the cardboard down to fit them on the shelves.  You'll notice inside the box that the purses aren't really even neatly laid.  Just good enough, since you can't see it.  Since there is a top on it, you can't notice that I cut them shorter.

 My sock "drawer" has this great divider thing, too which you can get from Amazon.  Now, my husband does NOT like his socks divided up like this.  He prefers to have them all thrown into one drawer and dig through to find what he likes.  That being said, I do it his way. It's still all in one drawer, but his way!  Don't force your husband to do something that is more of a pain for him than anything.  My kids have to have their stuff the way mom does it (or at least I try to find a way that's easier for them to keep doing) but it must always go back into the same place.

Go back over Cleaning up your bedroom closet Part 1 and Part 2.   Are there any places you can add hooks in your closet?  How about your kids' closets?  Are you helping them learn to keep their closets organized.  This is a daily task - keeping things up.  If you spend a few minutes a day keeping up what you've worked so hard on now, it will likely be neat and organized for the long haul.  Go back and get some closet inspiration and work a little each day on your closet.

So, tell me, what do you think?  Will this help you get more room in your closet?


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