L ooking for some budget-friendly ways to organize your wardrobe?
Keeping a wardrobe neat and clean is not easy. Just as the kitchen demands constant washing and putting-away of the dishes, and reorganizing of the spice drawers, a wardrobe as well asks for attention.
After all, who wants to return home after a long day to an unorganized wardrobe? How does one even plan an outfit for a date night that evening, or for work the next day, when the wardrobe is a mess?
Organizing the wardrobe can also be an expensive task. Purchasing more cupboards, shelves, or foldable hangers to save on space can be heavy on the pocket. For those who are looking to organize their wardrobe without spending much, we have gathered five strategies. Picking from the best in the field, including Mrs. Hinch and Marie Kondo, here are some useful ways to answer the recurrent question of how to organize your wardrobe.
Start by What You Use the Most
For walk-in closets, organizing by your usage is more practical than otherwise.
Start by thinking of items you wear the most, and also how you accessorize them. Putting your most used bottoms in the same closet area as the tops you pair them with is a simple and easy hack to make the existing wardrobe more efficient.
Complementing shoes and accessories can go under below, or on a nearby shelf where you store shoes and accessories.
The key here is to think of your go-to outfits for everyday OOTD and evenings.
Marie’s Sparking Joy Line
The organizing genius, Mari Kondo, is big on organizing the wardrobe, the color, and in a line. She calls it “the sparking joy line”
For this, you work with colors. Put clothes of the same color together in a line, starting with the darker shade to the lighter. It’s an ombre of the color. According to her, you will not have to think twice about where to put things back.
For those interested, her website also offers a variety of purchasing options for wardrobe organizations.
Hang & Fold by Material & Weight
Categorize your closet by material, usage, and weight of the clothes, shoes, and accessories. Sturdy jackets, delicate dresses, leather bags are some examples of items that retain their quality and shape if hung.
T-shirts, shirts, jeans, pants, and casual gym wear can be folded and placed on the shelf space left after hanging the heavier and fancier items.
Undergarments can be tucked away in a shoe organizer hanger, or even categorized in containers to save drawer space.
Elbow Room by MakeSpace has some good visual examples of how to organize your wardrobe
Box the Accessory Boxes
There may not be a need for new containers; this can be done with jewelry, perfume, and even shoeboxes you already have.
To keep jewelry more organized, this hack works wonderfully. Start by collecting all small boxes and dividing your jewelry by color, type, and usage. All imitation simple gold rings can be in one small box, chunky silver rings in one, and studs in one. All the small boxes can be labeled on top as such and then put in a big box.
The big box then goes in a drawer, or on the shelf. Next time you want to find something, you know exactly which box it belongs to and where to put it back.
Kitchen Trolleys & Baskets
For walk-in closets, and also for those who have a little bit of room to step-in, or walk inside, this one's for you!
Kitchen trolleys are a simple, and mobile hack to place your everyday shoes, bags, and even some accessory boxes.
You can move them anywhere you like, and can even place them adjacent to the door of your closet to keep them from getting in the way.
These are some quick, easy, and simple hacks to untangle your wardrobe, one section at a time.
No matter how you go about it, the starting point is to first take it all out, donate away the items that do not bring you joy, and then start by reorganizing your wardrobe experience.
Adding containers, making sections by category and usage, color coding, and adding trolleys and baskets are some of the easiest and most budget-friendly ways to organize your wardrobe.
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