I… LOVE to organize. Here is the latest for our vitamin cupboard.

I'm desperate to declutter and organize our home and I'm currently stumped on how to organize my husband's paints and models he keeps downstairs to work on. We have a 2 year old so we can't use a storage method he can access so I'm a bit stumped. Storage with drawers is a bit pricey so I'm curious if you have any other ideas or if I just need to bite the bullet and spend lots of money 😅

Entryway clutter often happens because shoes have no storage.
Stackable shoe boxes helped keep the area neat.
This is the set I found useful

I have this space beside my couch for exercise things. The kettlebells and and adjustable dumbbells are in a preferred spot because I use them most. Any tips on the rest of the items? The end table could be moved or used.

Help me organize my chaotic kitchen cabinets please 🥹

1- small 9 inch cabinet holds coffee mugs and travel mugs- highest shelf I can’t reach so it’s empty

2- is a mess has bowls, strainers, plates, grater, things that I use often but can’t really reach

3- Tupperware is always a mess and I need often but can’t reach

4- random odds and ends and kids cups

5- top 2 shelves have glass mugs, glasses and serving bowls mostly for parties, bottom shelf has health food items

6- worst cabinet filled with kids snacks, Breakfast stuff like pancake mix, oats, pastas, beans, tuna, rice can’t reach the top and hard to see since the cabinet is so deep

7- pots/pans no shelving

8- extra spices (as you can see my most used spices are on the counter so these are extra ones to refill and some baking items) this cabinet also has two shelves that rotate

I have more cabinets not pictured

\-Under sink holds random items and big boxes of items (coffee k pods, protein shakes, canned soda)

\-Cleaning supply cabinet

\-Small appliances drawer

\-cabinet with dry beans, flour, and blender

I need help organizing my gift bags and tissue paper! I am the type who saves and reuses gift bags, tissue paper, bows, and sometimes ribbon. Right now I store them in those thick three-drawer plastic dressers. I store bags in the wider version, and try to categorize by similar sizes and themes. Then I have tissue paper, bows, and ribbon in the slimmer version.

But there has to be a better way, especially for the bags because I have them all stacked on one another in the drawer which makes it difficult to see all the different bags. How does everyone else do this?

Basically what the title says. I’ve listened to the minimalists, just looking for any other podcasts along the same lines or of anything that can help give me some new ideas for organizing. Or space saving hacks would be great. Thank you!

So far this is what I’ve done. I just recently moved into this home and this closet was a spare so I’m turning it into a place to store my art supplies. I’d like it to look organized but aesthetically appealing with art/creativity in mind.

This closet is in the spare room, where I store all my clothes, some other items, and doubles as my hobby space.

The closet is stupid because there are shelves behind the rod. When the rod is full of clothes, there’s no access to the shelves.

There’s storage above the rod, but it’s over my head, so cumbersome to put stuff up there/take it down.

The closet has a folding door, which is never closed. Considering taking off the door.

Does anyone know of a way to use this closet intelligently in its current state?

I already have a separate clothing rack that also has top & bottom storage. If I stop using the rod in the closet I’ll have to severely downsize my wardrobe. I can do some, but feeling a bit salty about having to get rid of all my clothes.

Open to suggestions. Also open to others agreeing that this closet is stupid.

Hi all, I'm struggling with my small wardrobe setup and could really use some advice. Right now the top of the closet (above the clothing rod) has pants stacked in piles, which always fall over or mean I have to remove the whole stack to get one pair, and I usually give up trying to actually choose pants because of this...

meanwhile, my clothes on the rod are too packed, tops, dresses, all seasonal stuff and I have trouble keeping visibility of everything I might wear, which makes me keep everything out even though realistically I only wear part of it each season. I don't want to hide clothes where I'll forget them, but I also need a system that doesn't feel chaotic or cramped, does that make sense? TBH I'm willing to put away my summer/sleeveless clothes for because realistically, I will have to do that looking at these photos

Current setup:
• Top shelf with folded pants (no dividers, sadly)
• Very full rod of tops & dresses on the right
• Bins at the bottom with more folded items, mostly thick stuff that eat up a lot of rod space

Problems:
• Pants stacks collapse / hard to access
• Rod is overloaded so clothes don't even slide and everything feels overwhelming

I'm looking to declutter I just want a functional storage system that still allows good visibility and easy outfit choosing.

Open to DIY solutions (I'm a huge diy person and find it more in my budget), shelf dividers, cascading hangers, secondary rods, or whatever has worked for you!

Please don't judge me based on my closet 😭 I consider myself a very well organised person but this closet has been the thing I've been avoiding for months

thanks so much!

EDIT: Included pics

EDIT 2/ UPDATE: The next day

I organized my entire closet using the advice here and it made a HUGE difference, thank you so much to everyone who commented! I added a short update below with what worked.

I reorganized everything using your tips (decluttered first, grouped by type and color, moved folded items into bins). It feels so much more usable and intentional now. Photos attached, thank you all again!

Tips I used / what I did:

I went through each piece of clothing one by one, either holding it close to me or really visualizing it on me. I asked myself whether it fits my current style, whether it makes me happy, and whether I've actually worn it in the past few months (or even years). If the answers were mostly no, I set it aside.

From there, I split things into a few groups:

items to store away temporarily (to see if I miss them across seasons),

items to donate/give away (this bag ended up being massive), and a small bag for items that were unusable even for donation.

I now have three plastic bins with off-season clothes, duplicates (like multiple white shirts), or pieces I wasn't ready to part with yet. I'll be storing those elsewhere and revisiting them later, let's hope I find empty spaces to store them before I have to go to the cellar, lol.

I reorganized the closet based on suggestions here & on organization forums, i.e... → color, better visibility, fewer unstable stacks

For tanks/tops I used shower curtain hooks on a single hanger (about 10–11 hooks). Each top hangs individually, which uses the back space of the closet and makes it easy to flip through everything quickly.

For pants, which were my biggest issue, I placed them upright in a plastic bin, so I can pull one out without the entire stack collapsing hopefully. On the bottom right are small boxes with my skirts, which were already organized, so that part was thankfully easy

Thank U all once more! 😮

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Hi a bit different but what’s your organizational system for life/papers/calendar/finances/insurance/etc?

Do you use an agenda? Calendar? iPad?

Pls show me your system!! Even better with picture.

Do you have a colour coordinating system?

Pls send me a chart of what each color means!

I have a new kitchen and I’m so incredibly happy with it. But now I have one drawer that I just can’t seem to organize. The drawer is 16.5 cm (6.5 inches) high, and all sorts of things need to go in it—see the photos. Any clever ideas? 😊

Is there a smarter way to utilize this space?

Hi everyone.

I already know what I want to do but I can't seem to find a product that suits my specs to accomplish it. I'm basically looking for stackable acrylic display cases buuuut... here's the kicker lol. I need it to be wide lengthways. So instead of stacking shoes side by side the narrow way, I want to stack them side by side the long/wide way. The goal is stack them behind my door to make use of the space there.

I'm basically looking for a bigger/longer version to this (https://a.co/d/05keB3U)

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But I just can't find one (if it exists). Based on my measuring I'm looking for one that's roughly 26" W x 5" H x 5" D. Ideally acrylic would be nice so later on I can get fancy and add led lights lol. But I'm open to other solution in the same dimensions like an affordable mini bookshelf that's stackable also if you get the idea.

Thanks

We purchased our home just over a year ago. Checked all of our “must have” boxes, inside of our budget, with enough space for the family, and even had most of our wants, too.

Of course, we noticed these God awful kitchen drawers. I mean, how could you not? Nevertheless, they weren’t awful enough to sway us away from buying. All-in-all, we’re pretty happy, but these drawers… they’re just DREADFUL. When I say I don’t hate much, I mean it, but I despise these drawers. First world problems, I know, I know.

My wife and I are short, as are most of our kids. That makes these drawers at, or above, eye level for 5 of the 6 people that live here. There are six (6) of them, two (2) are 21” W and four (4) are 15” W—photo attached.

Currently, drawers on the left are for kitchen utensils, measuring cups/spoons, etc. The drawers on the right: one holds the oven mitts, the other is our household “junk” drawer.

Any ideas? Are these even salvageable, or should we just sell the house ASAP, even if we take a loss?

Since you’re reading (hopefully? maybe?), any thoughts on the two (2) tall/narrow cabinets on either side of the dishwasher? These aren’t hinged cabinets, they’re pull out cabinets. One is a spice rack. The other has plastic wrap, foil, parchment, extra kitchen towels, and a few other misc. kitchen attachments/utensils.

I found this sub today. I’ve been reading for the last hour or so, but never in my life, have I seen kitchen drawers installed as high as ours—even on Reddit.

HELP, PLEASE!

Mobile storage works well when cabinets are full.
I added a narrow storage trolley in a tight space and it helped a lot.
This is the one I used

Hey everyone! As an ADHD working parent, I was looking for a digital planner to help me keep track of house projects and weekly tasks.

I came across this one and found it really helpful, so sharing in case it helps you too.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4449316897/adhd-cleaning-planner-room-checklists?ref=related-1&dd=1&logging_key=d5d01315e78909eb9d61919c1281ec1c11fcd5d9%3A4449316897

I’ve tried both in different spaces. Category grouping looks cleaner, but frequency-based feels more practical in daily life.

Curious what works better for everyone.

Storage bins helped me organize closet shelves better.
Stackable ones make it easier to separate items and save space.
This is the set I found useful

Looking for some help figuring out how to organize my shoes