How I overhauled my family’s messy closet—with a $0 budget.
, they tell me that you need to take everything out of the closet when you’re organizing. I will confess that in the nearly seven years I have lived in my apartment, I have never emptied our main closet. This time I did, and it really helped me reorganize for our needs right now–not our needs from 6+ years ago when we moved in before our son was born. An empty closet let me rethink how we store everything.
My husband’s clothes take up two-thirds of our hanging space and he swears he’s going to do a big edit soon. In the meantime, I tidied up everything else and rehung his clothes that were crooked on their hangers. The closet feels so much better with everything tidied–even if there’s still a lot that could go away.
Most of my “organizing” was a process of moving things from one place to a better one. I gathered similar items together and relocated less-frequently used items to higher shelves. When I discovered that a bin of medications that were mostly expired I realized I could fit the remaining items in the medicine cabinet.
I thought my closet project would consume a full day, but it ended up taking just four hours . If I had known that my closet could be totally transformed for zero dollars and four hours of my time, I would have done it months ago.A funny thing happened producing this article: Documenting the process made my real-life makeover more satisfying.
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