Get Clean {Closets}

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Get Clean {Closets}

Hello everyone! I hope that you are enjoying your first week of summer so far! We had extreme heat and then lots of rain. We already started our summer activities, I know that this summer will be a little crazy with everything going on. This is the first summer that the kids are in a lot of activities. The older kids are in gymnastics twice a week and in vacation bible school. Michael will also be in T-ball and all the kids will be in swimming lessons. They are loving it so far. I will let you know if it gets to be too much.

Welcome to Week 15 of our Organize your Life series!

Anyway, I am still following my plan to organize one thing a week! I did change my plan again this week, lol! I am following the book, Organize Now! and loving it but I skipped to organizing my storage areas this week. It started with me going through the kids summer clothes and then I ended up going through 2 kids’ closets, my closet and a storage closet, ha! Even though, I just had another garage sale, I still ended up going to the Goodwill several time to get rid of more stuff! It felt great! :)

I went through and organized my closet again!

I went through all my clothes again.

And shoes, purses, etc.

I use this shoe rack to keep things organized.

I keep all my long-sleeved clothes on one side.

And the rest on the other side.

I went through my jeans and sweaters.

I got rid of a lot of my hangers and I am switching to the plastic ones.

I am changing them out one load of laundry at a time so I can see what I am wearing and not wearing.

This is my husband’s side of the closet.

I had helpers, of course! :)

I just hang up my purses for now.

I usually keep my laundry basket on the floor but it was in the laundry room when I took these photos! I have been really good about laundry lately and I am trying not to let it pile up.

Our closet is off of our bathroom so it is easy to put our dirty clothes in there.

Next, I went through my daughters closet.

I went through all her clothes to get ready for the summer.

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I keep a lot of her stuff in bins.

In these bins, she keep her play clothes, baby stuff and play food.

Here is an extra blanket if she needs it.

I moved everything into bins because I think it is easier to put away and keep organized.

She has some puzzles and a basket of stuff on her shelf.

I added this little set of hooks (that I bought at a garage sale for 50 cents) for her purses and stuff.

Next, I did Michael’s room and closet. I

just love his new “M”. (I know that has nothing to do with his closet but it is so cute, lol.)

I went through all his clothes.

And his WHOLE closet!! I got rid of A LOT of his stuff!!!

Here are some of his puzzles.

Ok, yes, I did get rid of a lot of his stuff but only because he just had a birthday and got a TON of new toys that we now keep in the basement. The toys that were in his closet were not used a lot so I am keeping this space open for new things. I don’t want you thinking that they don’t have any toys, lol! TRUST ME, they still have WAY TOO MUCH, haha! I just wanted to clear out before summer since they are outside almost all the time anyway.

Here are more bins.

I keep a lot of his clothes in this dresser too.

Let’s move on to the last closet that I will show you today. Yes, this is a long post. I have been busy around here! I just want to start the summer off with a organized house so I can be outside with the kids and not worry about the house. Does that sense to anyone else?

Next, I organized our storage closet. I will show you the before picture in another post. I am not done with this closet yet but this is what we did so far.

We added shelving to a coat closet and turned it into a storage closet.