comprehensive closet reorganizations are currently on a semiannual cycle

[cimorene]

Does everybody else go through this neverending cycle of trying to do a systematic purge of clutter and excess stuff like... multiple times per year? Because I've just dragged all the stuff out of the closet to re-fold and attempt to reorganize for the second time in less than a year in the vain hope that after this time it will all fit.

It's not that we have lots of clothes! (Especially fervently said after watching Marie Kondo's reality show.) It's that all the storage is terrible for storing our wardrobes. There's enough hanging rods in them to store three times the hanging stuff that we have, a ton of shelves which are fairly terrible for storing folded clothes - especially deep shelves where you can't see anything! - and no drawers at all.

The struggle with inappropriate shelves is real. All the stuff will fit on the shelf when stacked up neatly... but you'll only be able to see and reach the ones in the front! Putting baskets and boxes that you can pack like a drawer on the shelf is possibly the best way, but it has its own problems.

Every time I do this I throw away some stuff and fold all the things and it all looks amazing and it all fits and then it only lasts for a few weeks because actually there's literally no way to fit the stuff in the shelves that doesn't involve things being precariously and inconveniently behind each other and on top of each other within the same shelf, and that's just a recipe for disaster (or rather a recipe for the shelf ending up with a mixed-up pile of crumpled laundry on it).

I suppose drawers are really the only good solution available, and having no good place to fit a chest of drawers becomes the new problem...

Comments

[cimorene]

Yes, this is a great idea for stuff you don't need to get out that often! I have several shelves that have things like this on them - spare electronics parts and art supplies, that sort of thing. It doesn't work for clothes, sadly - we actually kind of tried that. Although I do have some big shallow boxes/box lids - trays kind of - with the clothes stacked in them on the shelves for clothes.