A new year = the perfect time to tidy up… right? From finding storage and organization ideas for your kitchen, living room, bedroom and even your car — just about everything can use a little freshening up at the start of a new year.
If you’re in need of some organization ideas for your closet, you came to the right place. Keep reading for some tips on how to best organize your closet.
How to Organize Your Closet
Organizing your closet can be a daunting task, especially if you’ve been putting it off for some time. If you’ve decided enough is enough, try some of these closet organization ideas for your home:
- Take out everything. Empty everything out of your closet, and we mean everything! This may sound like a lot, but this is the first step in taking inventory of everything you really do have. Completing this initial step will also allow you to uncover some of those hidden gems you forgot you had, as well as some of those ugly pieces that just never really fit right.
- Chunk clothing types. Once you’ve emptied everything out of your closet, it’s time to start going through each clothing item type 1 by 1. Start with shirts, then move to jackets, pants, accessories, and shoes. You can break these categories down even further too, into short sleeve shirts, long sleeve shirts, sweaters, etc.
- Make 3 piles. As you’re going through each pile, place each clothing item into one of these three piles: 100% yes, maybe, and donate/trash. Here are a few places to consider donating your clothes to in Chicago.
- Circle back to the maybes. Once you’re done going through and putting these into their respective piles, circle back to the maybes and go through Step 3 once again, but try to pick whether you’re actually keeping or getting rid of them this time. You may realize your “yes” pile from the previous step is huge and you really don’t need some of those “maybes”. There may be just one or two you decide to keep and the rest could be donated. Or maybe, you just can’t make up your mind.
- The “for later” box. If you’re just not sure and don’t want to make a decision just yet, create a “for later” box and store those items away for 6 months to revisit at a later date. 6 months will give you enough time to cycle through almost a full season’s worth of clothes. Set a reminder on your phone and when the time comes, open up the box and go through the process again. If, after those 6 months, you haven’t thought about the “for later” box even once, it’s probably best to get rid of those items. If there were a few pieces you found yourself digging into prior to those 6 months, it’s safe to say that those are here to stay and the rest can go.
- One-in-one-out. In order to keep your closet perpetually clean, implement the “one-in-one-out” rule for any additional clothing purchases. So, for any new clothing item you have, donate or get rid of another item in your closet to take its place. This should make it so that your closet stays fresh and organized all year around!
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