How To Organize Your Closet

Consider your closet. Treat it like a sacred space, or treat it with the same TLC that
men treat their coveted cars and garages.

Excerpted from my book, Think & Date Like A Man:

Your closet is a place you go to several times a day to choose what you’re going to put on your body, yet it is often a space that is disregarded. As a result, you often enter or look into your closet with a lack of energy. It should be a space that inspires you, not sucks the life out of you. Spruce up the space and you’ll notice how much more you enjoy going to the closet and how much more creative you’ll be at choosing your clothes.

– Arrange your closet by seasons, and then by colors.

– Keep the pants in one area, and the skirts in another.

– Invest in good hangars. Padded hangars for delicate garments and pant and skirt hangars with clips that won’t bunch your clothing while it’s hanging as well as hangars that accommodate pants and a jacket, and have a tier to hang another garment, like a blouse on it also, so you can create outfits that will save you time choosing.

Tip: If you don’t have a lint brush, try wrapping a piece of scotch tape around your hand a couple of times, sticky side up. Run the sticky side up and down your clothing, and voila! Lint and fuzz are gone.

– Keep matching accessories (belts, scarves, jewelry and gloves) on the same hangars or nearby the clothes they’re worn with.

– Hang a rack on your closet wall that you can hang belts, scarves and hats on.

– Decide if you’d rather have your shoes in a hung shoe bag, or on a multi-tiered rack that sits on the floor.

– Clear plastic shoe boxes are also great space savers as long as you tape a photo of the shoes onto the end of the box, so you don’t have to open each box to see what’s inside every time you’re choosing shoes.