We live in Buffalo. Insert your own joke about snow here. Therefore we have a lot of hats, mittens, gloves, scarves and other cold weather paraphernalia that floats around. For years we stuffed all of this in the hope chest in our front hall. It was a disaster. Nothing stayed together. And people always piled stuff on top of the chest, so we could never get in it! I tried keeping all of this winter weather stuff on a shelf in the coat closet. This was an even worse idea. Nothing stayed on the shelf and no one could see or reach anything.
My solution? A fabric mesh shoe organizer. I attached it to the inside of our coat closet door. Each pocket nicely holds together pairs of mittens/gloves and keeps hats and scarves easy to find. It’s also nice because you can assign each person their own row/column, so there’s no mixing up of belongings, making it a lot easier to find that pair of gloves you want when you’re heading out the door.
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You have such great organizing tips. When are you coming to Our Little House to do mine!? 🙂
Even though I live in a very different climate, we definitely have that problem and I love your solution.
My husband also has a baseball cap collection, and we have (part of) his collection hung an over-the-door organizer I found at Bed Bath and Beyond (nirvana for organizers!).
So clever!
I think you are great at staying organized in such a small space!
Great idea!
That is a great idea. I wish I had the kind of door I could hang that on. With so many people in our family, winter gear organization is a nightmare.
What a great idea – no more orphan gloves looking for their partner. I take a shoe bag like this on cruises to hang on the inside of the bathroom door. It keeps me organized and we all know that cruise bathrooms never have enough storage.
Wonderful idea!
That’s a great idea. Keeps everything contained AND visible AND accessible.
Wow, Brette and Donna both have fantastic ideas. Thank you for sharing.
That is a good idea. I had a hanging cosmetics organizer once but it was hard to get stuff in and out of it on trips.
Good idea. We use a 3-drawer thing that sits in the closet (below the coats), but you’re right … the drawers can become a mess, if you are not careful. We have accordion closet doors, so we cannot really hang stuff inside them.
This is brilliant! Totally stealing this idea.
Excellent. Our front entryway is a mess right now. Michigan winters.
What a great idea. I need this kind of organization. My sock situation is out of control.
I like to use a criss cross plastic organizer in my sock drawer. It divides it up into little diamonds and one pair goes in each one. Here’s an example: http://www.amazon.com/Honey-Can-Do-SFT-01625-Drawer-Organizer-32-Compartment/dp/B003XAMI72/ref=sr_1_2?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1359335127&sr=1-2&keywords=sock+organizer
What a great idea–do you find that the mittens get musty in there? My kids mittens are always so wet that I have to keep them out before putting them away–any thoughts?
No, not at all. It is mesh.I think if you put only one pair in each pocket you wouldn’t have a problem at all.