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Organize Your Clothes Closet Learn how to organize your clothes closet. From "Home Made Easy" episode DHME-102

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• There are a lot of clever solutions on the market to make the most of your space. For sweaters, you can hang the six shelf canvas bags in your closet. They are available at most household stores.

• An over the door shoe bag is great for many uses (figure D)--not just shoes! You can place belts, socks, scarves, accessories etc. in the pockets. These bags are also great to hang in your hall closet and assign each family member pockets for storing their gloves, knitted hats, etc.

• Add drawer space. Try moving a small chest of drawers in if the "built-in's" are too costly. They are also a great place to store t-shirts, underwear, socks, etc. Or, purchase the plastic drawers (figure E) which are great because you can see what you have stored in them, and you can label the drawers.

Figure D

Figure E

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Figure F

• Take advantage of the extreme reaches of your closet for out of season clothes stored in clear plastic bins on the floor or top shelf.

• Improve the use of your shelves by subdividing them with shelf dividers to create neat boundaries for stacks of folded items like sweaters and sweatshirts (figure F). If you have your purses on a shelf, then use your biggest bag to store your smaller purses in. Make it even easier by creating one unit of all the little bags by putting them in an old pillowcase.

• Hang it up. Hooks are a fantastic way to store hats.

• Organizing your clothes by color is a simple way to avoid annoying decisions of what goes with what. With each section, whether it's casual or business, work from the lightest to the darkest color for easy matching--white at one end, black at the other.

• If your closet doesn't have great lighting, you should get a battery operated light.

• Even when you love everything in your wardrobe, it will be easier to see your options if you take the time to change your closet with the seasons. Put the sweaters and wools away when the weather turns warm, and keep the shorts and beachwear stored "off duty" during the winter.

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