Week 21 of the Weekly Organization Challenge

This is week 21 of The Good Wife's Weekly Organization Challenge! This week focused on the linen closet.

I don't have a linen closet. Sad trombone. 

I have a laundry closet that I want to turn into a linen closet some day. I do have some linen closets that I love.

Like this one

 source, via pinterest 

and these

source, via pinterest 

but I have nothing so awesome in my house yet. I do however have some tips on how to keep your linen closet organized:

~keep three sets of sheets for each bed in the house (one for the wash, one for the bed and one for the drawer)

~group like items together - kid towels and washcloths, guest towels and washcloths, etc.

~keep seasonal items towards the back or in a less used space

~store bulkier items on the top shelves

~store medicine and first aid in the closet and not in the bathroom

~store the flat and fitted sheet in the matching pillow case to keep items together

Next week we move out of the laundry room and into the bathroom!

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Week 20 of the Weekly Organization Challenge

This is week 20 of The Good Wife's Weekly Organization Challenge! This week focused on laundry baskets and hampers. I grouped this under the laundry room but in actuality we don't keep hampers in the laundry room. We keep them in the master bedroom closet. 

And there is a legitimate reason for this.

If we kept the hampers anywhere other than the bedroom and maybe the bathroom, clothes would never actually make it into the hampers. They would gather on the floor until laundry day and we would look like a house auditioning for Hoarders: Buried Alive.

Like I have said before, you have to work with your natural habits. No one in our family would take their clothes off, walk into the hallway, open the laundry room door and place their clothes in the hampers. No one. And to try and force us to do it would just result in someone screaming at 8:30 on a Tuesday night, "Sweet fucking, 8 pound, 4 ounce little baby Jesus, lying in his manger, can't you pick up your damn clothes?!?"

Not good.

But I do think hamper systems like this one I saw on Pinterest, is a good idea. I even think if we had something like this in the bathroom or bedroom, we would put our clothes in it all the time.

But for now, we just have the hampers on the floor in the closet. When we re-do the bedroom closet, we might update our system then but for now, this is what it is.

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Week 19 of the Weekly Organization Challenge

I am not dead. 

I am sorry that it has taken too long in getting back on the organizational horse. 

This is week 19 of The Good Wife's Weekly Organization Challenge! This week focused on the laundry room. 

Currently our laundry room is a large closet off of our main hallway. There is a lot of space there, but most of it is unused. I have plans on turning it into some kind of giant linen closet/storage but I don't know what I want, just yet.

But I still needed to organize this giant ass mess into something neater. So the before.....

 

and now the after... 

I got rid of all the garbage and moved the cleaning soaps to the corner above the washing machine.

I also put the specialty cleaners and tissues in a storage bin. The dust rags went into the other storage bin.

For now, miscellaneous items live in the empty space that would be a linen closet in the future - the highchair and fan.

Next week, I will focus on laundry storage and hampers.

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