Do Your Closet Right
How marvelous to know that behind that closet door is NOT a junk pile, but a well organized attractive array of clothes, shoes, and handbags. How marvelous to know that if I want to wear my white blouse, black slacks, and paisley jacket, I won’t have to rummage through my whole closet looking under other pieces to see if my slacks my be hanging underneath, or jammed behind something else. Each piece is right in its place.
So getting dressed is a cinch. How, you may ask “did this attractive, well organized marvelous closet develop?” A simple organizational plan is the answer.
Simply divide you clothes into categories of the types of pieces. Put all blouses together, all slacks, all skirts. Well you get the idea. Be sure to split up your suits into skirts and jackets. Don’t hang suit pieces together.
Now put a labeled separation “doughnut” between each section of clothes. You may wish to make it out of poster board using the pattern provided or you may wish to order plastic ones from me at Messies Anonymous. Write on the doughnut with a broad tipped pen the category (like SKIRTS).
Now you are ready to “organize” your closet. While you are moving those coats hangers around, why not buy some nice new plastic tubular hangers (all one color, please). And while the clothes are off the hanger, why not get rid of all the ones you really don’t wear. Give them to the Salvation Army and get them back in circulation in the world. It’s your duty to see that the clothes are well used.
Finally, when you put the clothes, which are on the new hangers, in their categories, put them in order by their color, similar to the way an artist sets up his palette. Put white clothes first in line, In between, put them from light to dark. Now you will be able to find the white blouse at the front of the blouse line, and the black slacks at the back of the slacks line. The paisley jacket will be in the middle of the jacket line.
If you resist this whole organization idea, join the club. I thought it would be a waste of time to set it up and too much trouble to maintain. Was I wrong. This method has really been a time and frustration saver for me. Try it, I know you’ll like it.
Note: Closet Labels is a PDF document.
