Organizing Your Clothes Closet

Organizing Your Clothes Closet: Throw Out the Hangers You Hate
One of our biggest pet peeves about the clothes closet is the hangers - I hate the wire ones that always bend and fall apart. To make the clothes closet clean-up less painful, we should buyhangers to match the ones we do like. Now, even if our clothes closet is messy, at least the hangers match and are durable enough to last a few decades.

Organizing Your Clothes Closet: Empty It Out
Sometimes you don't even realize how much of a black hole your clothes closet really is until you empty it completely. When we took everything out of our clothes closet at home, we found skirts and dresses that my wife hadn't worn since 1993, shoved between other clothes on hangers.

Organizing Your Clothes Closet: Bulky Jackets Go Elsewhere
One of the things that made our clothes closet seem so messy was the excess of bulky winter jackets and coats. Instead of letting them ruin our clothes closet, we delegated them to the hallway closet. That also makes it easier in the winter when you need to leave in a hurry - it's faster to run to the hallway closet than all the way back to the bedroom.

Organizing Your Clothes Closet: The Good Will Pile
Rather than just tossing the clothes that don't fit or which you will never wear again, make a separate pile for Good Will or another charity that accepts clothing. Load them all into plastic garbage bags and make an appointment to either have them picked up or to drop them off.