Thursday, January 27, 2011

Kid's Closet Organization

We have only been in this house for about 7 months, but my daughter's closet was a MESS! It actually had an organizational system, but it just wasn't working. I had a large storage unit made out of cubes that was taking up a ton of room, but wasn't being utilized. I wish I had a before picture, but I was just too focused on getting it done to worry about it! My daughter and I tackled it last night. I had to think about our two biggest problems- picking out clothes in the morning, and finding her shoes. I think we solved this problem:
I think that is the secret about organizing-it's not organized if it's not working. Here is what I changed:
*I bought her a 5-sectioned hanging organizer for her clothes. She can pick out her outfits for the week on Sunday, then just grab them in the morning. I also got her a shoe organizer that holds 10-pair of shoes. Each organizer was $10.99 at Fred Meyer, and had a 15% coupon off also! Great deal.
* Her room was feeling very cluttered with her laundry basket and stuffed animal basket out. Now they are hidden! Besides, who wants to see dirty laundry anyway!
*We already had the wire basket organizer (which is wonderful), so it pretty much stayed the same.
*There were a bunch of memorabilia-type items at the top of her closet-baby book, baby blankets, etc. I combined these all into one large container. (On the upper right shelf.)
*We sorted though everything in the closet and got rid of anything she didn't need. I just kept reminding her, "Less stuff means less to clean up!"

I think it is going to work great....we will see. If not, I will tweak it again!
*Sarah*

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