How to Easily Organize Your Clothes

Guest post from Dollie Freeman

Depending on the number of people you have in the family and how much you store for the future sizes for your family, you may have a challenge in how to organize your clothes.

For our home, we would be in complete chaos without an organizing system in place for the amount of clothes that we store for future use. I’m an avid clearance shopper and yard sale lover.  {Check out my ebook, Planning to Save: Strategies to Saving Hundreds While Providing for Your Family and use the code SPRING to get your copy for free, if you get it before April 30th.}  When finding the best deals, I can literally bring home bags of clothing from all sizes, which can really create some challenges, if our system isn’t followed.

I’d like to give you some tips on how you can easily organize your family’s clothes.

You Can Easily Organize Your Clothes

To start this challenge, you will want to locate a space where you can organize ‘up’ the wall, saving that precious floor space.  We, women are known for our creativity and ability to make the most of even the little things, so think out of the box. If you don’t have a walk up attic or even no attic at all, you may become ‘pinspired‘ by searching some great organizing ideas on Pinterest.  Here are some ideas I have used other than attics: closets, under beds, and even built in cupboards over closets.

Once you know ‘where’ your organized clothes will go, you will need to decide what you will store them in and how you will divide the clothes. Here are some of the ways I have done this and the way I do it now.

• Cardboard boxes – These are free and easy to get, but they do not last long, especially if you are getting in and out of them frequently.  If you have any attic ‘tenants’ these are not the best way of storing clothes.
• Crates and bins – These are not the best way to protect the clothing, but can be a good way of organizing and using what you may already have on hand.
• Plastic bins – These are the containers that I prefer most and have been using for years.  They are good at keeping the clothing from the conditions of the attic, but they do require an initial investment.
• Seasonal – You can divide clothing by seasons. For instance, autumn & winter together, and spring with summer clothing.  This will require two bins per size for each family member you are organizing.  Although this system worked well, it required a lot of room, but less time when switching out clothes.
• Sizes – These system is what we use now and I can handle the space and the containers. We have one bin per size and have several sizes, since our children range from 3 years old to adult.  When our youngest outgrows one size and the bin is no longer needed, we donate the clothes and use that bin for the higher size for the older children.

Most homes will be getting into the storage and switching out the next season’s clothing.  I would love to challenge you to go a little further and implement some of these ideas to make this time consuming chore easier when organizing your clothes for the future.

How long does it take you to switch out one season’s clothing for the next?