Is your closet cramped and cluttered? Organizing it doesn’t have to be a huge hassle, cost any money, or take a lot of time. If you’re interested in doing some quick rearranging to make more room in your closet, then you’ve come to the right place. We’ve taken tips from closet organizers everywhere to compile this list of helpful tips for getting organized in a hurry.
1) First, do a quick sift-through to get rid of anything that you haven’t worn in a year. Try not to think too hard or be too sentimental. Get rid of it and feel good about donating it to a charitable organization or a friend.
2) Decide what can be hung and what can be folded. If your dresser drawers are overflowing, you might be better off hanging something like t-shirts and reserving your dresser drawers for socks, pajamas, swim wear and underwear.
3) Hang things according to length. If you hang all of your dresses and other long items all together on one side, then they won’t be taking up space in the bottom of the closet for the length of the bar. Hang the next longest thing next to that and line everything up until one end is only occupied by your shortest shirts or pants. This should free up some space beneath the hanging clothes.
4) Use the space between the hanging clothes for a laundry basket, a bin for tossing things that you decide to donate to charity, or a shoe rack. If you have some low shelves, you can slide them in to hold bins and baskets for smaller items or folded stacks of clothing.
5) The fastest and easiest way to double or triple closet space is to use flat, space saving hangers. Hangers that fit really closely together save precious space. Add clips and you can hang skirts, shorts and pants. Use cascading hooks and you can hang your hangers from each other, coordinating outfits.
6) Specialty clothes hangers allow you to hang specific items in specific ways. For example, multi-pant hangers let you hang four or five pairs of pants in one place. These are great space savers, especially if you use them for storing out of season clothing. If you don’t store out of season clothing in another place, then you won’t have to switch out wardrobes when the seasons change. Finding ways to make space in your closet will help you to spend less time organizing, hunting and rehanging your clothes.
