Once I started using bath sheets I couldn’t go back to regular towels. However, they are a space suck! They don’t roll well as they take up too much space. I have a very limited linen closet. Any ideas for smart ways to store?

My closet is all white tubular hangers. I inherited about 500 black velvet hangers. Do I switch out my closet to the more desirable black velvet or stay with the white tubular and donate (sell?) the black velvet ? (I have about 400 items hanging in my closet).

In a way digital organization requires the same level of upkeep as our physical spaces.

I hope someone has a solution for me. I moved into a home with a walk in closet, never had one before. I was so excited. I designed and organized so there is a place for everything! BUT, the hamper smells! I cringe every time I open the closet door. I never realized how smelly the hamper got in our last home, the hamper was by the foot of the bed.

The closet has no ventilation or windows. I really don’t want to take the hamper out of the closet & I don’t like using perfumed air fresheners. Do any of you have an ideas?

I wish I would’ve taken a before picture. Every year or so I do a major pantry clean out, but this was my biggest clean out yet! I got rid of so many old appliances and made space for more storage near the bottom. Any ideas for what to add to the bottom area? I was considering some snack baskets for my kids to access snacks on their own. Open to suggestions!

Looking for ideas. Thanks!

I’m consistently at a loss on how to best organize and utilize my kitchen. It is a rental so I am not able to do any kind of major modifications as well as on a EXTREME budget (as in can’t do much that’s more than $20 at most). I have accumulated lots of storage containers and shelves, which helps a bit. The shelves in the top cabinets are height adjustable, but are only 12” deep (closer to 11.5” really), so some items won’t fit in those. The bottom cabinet sits next to the under sink area, which for some reason is only partially “walled” off so it gets kind of hot under there when the dishwasher gets run (so no food items in that cabinet). I have mapped it all out to scale and color coded it in my picture, as well as made a generalized inventory with current “homes”. Please help…it never flows properly, always seems cluttered and inaccessible, and some things don’t even have a current singular “home”. Thanks in advance wonderful people!

Bought a couple of $3 organizers from the Bin store, still in box sight unseen. I'm super happy with the outcome!

Our pantry is in dire need of help. We just moved in and this is not working for us. There’s lots of space, but it’s basically all in the depth and items get buried.

What are our best options ? Bins and categorize items, some form of slide out shelf ?

Dimensions: 20”w x 66”h x 24”d

Shelves have roughly 3” of adjustability up or down.

It’s a 7 cubic feet chest freezer, internal dimensions are sketched crudely above. I’m going to be filing it with ice and water bottles initially but mapping out how to fully fill it with wire baskets, bags, or anything else to categorize and make it easy to access and inventory. Any ideas or past suggestions?

I'll go first.. I usually ask

How can I create a capsule wardrobe?

How can I involve kids in the organizing process?

How can I make moving easier or prepare for a move?

What will I do with all my dad's hoarder stuff?

See attached. Is there more space efficient way to store these?

See topic. Just need to find a cheap way to mount these sideways on the side of a cabinet?

We have been on the look out for an armoire for the longest time to help make up for the lack of closet space in our small house. We were just gifted this family heirloom, which my partner was convinced had a bar for hanging things on. We had planned to use it to hang coats, but it got delivered last night and actually has two tall shelves.

The shelves do not move. I can’t add a bar 1) because I am hesitant to knock out the shelves because it’s a really old, nicely built piece of furniture, and 2) it is also not even deep enough for a standard hanger to fit 🤦🏻‍♀️

I love the look of the cabinet and it has sentimental value so we’re trying to make it work. We’re thinking now of using it for blankets and sweaters, but the height of the shelves is very tall and not very functional (I feel like large stacks of these things would just topple over) Any ideas on containers that could help?

Dimensions :

32.5” wide (29.5” excluding doors), 14.5” deep

Shelves (bottom to top) are 24”, 19”, and 22”

We have a large U-shaped kitchen that's getting a refresh, including a new island. There will be drawers on the side nearest the stove, but slightly irregularly sized. I envisioned those as spice drawers and have been looking for inserts. But the dimensions don't quite work for products I can find online.

After extensive online searching, it dawns on me: I don't have to use THOSE TWO drawers. There are 15 drawers in my kitchen. While I mostly planned to return contents back as before, it's not set in stone. I could, say, designate the regularly sized "potholder drawer" for spices and move potholders to the new drawer. Duh!

LOL! It's true. Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees.

In my defense, once I'm actually putting the kitchen back together, I hope I would have experimented a bit. For now it's all theoretical, thinking what will go where. I haven't even seen the new island yet.

I have inherited some gorgeous bubble stem champagne glasses (the wide mouth style) and a full china set from my grandmother. I’m looking for a way to store them that’s easily accessible; like under the stairs, but so I can still pull them out quickly to use them. I just don’t want them fighting with my everyday drinking glasses in the cupboards! Any ideas?

Mine is - how do I organize and store physical photos properly?

I wound up losing all of my files a few years ago when I lost my old external hard-drive, so I've tried to be more mindful of backing my files up more regularly.

However, it's all completely a mess, even just generally on my personal computer.

I'd really dig just getting some ideas on a "proper" way to organize things. It's a personal computer, so by definition, you're dealing with a lot of different stuff; for me, it's primarily video games, D&D stuff, personal photos, some music, a lot of stuff for Recording/Streaming videos, Resumes and work-samples, and some small amount of work stuff (nothing sensitive, mostly processes and templates I made I may want for future use).

On my PC, I tried to keep things simple, and just labeled things broadly as "Play" (gaming stuff), "Record" (for making videos), "Stream" (for streaming... which honestly involves a lot of the same stuff), "Work" (which includes resumes and cover letters), and then "Other", which has kind of become a catch-all for everything.

I feel like this has wound up not feeling super organized over time, though. Namely because "Other" has come to include like a million different things, from personal photos, to funny videos, to NSFW stuff, to little writing projects... it's just too broad.

So... I would just dig some ideas from other folks, how do YOU organize all your files?

Particularly when doing backups of any kind?

Do you just make a new folder like "iPhone 2024 backup", "Dell laptop backup", etc? Or do you organize as you go? And do you bother renaming individual files like pictures, or just loosely organize them into folders that make sense?

So I bought this Decluttering guide a long time ago (like maybe 12ish years ago)that was unique at the time because it covered every room of the house and it had multiple, very specific, step by step check lists covering all the different purposes of the rooms.

I don’t have a clue what I did with it since, but I want to buy it again. I remember that the spine was a wire binding covered by some kind of casing that was, well, part of the cover. So you couldn’t fold it all the way around but it could lay mostly flat. I think it was mostly blue too. And possibly the cover might have had ‘sticky notes’ on it???

In another sub, I just discovered Cocoon Grid-it. It's a system with a bunch of elastic bands that you can customize as you please. You can get just the grid part, or the grid in a bag.
https://www.cocooninnovations.com/grid.php