How to Organize a Closet

Closets are a pain in the backside.  Mine isn't, obviously because I keep mine organized.  My husband's on the other hand is an absolute nightmare.

When I get up in the morning whether I'm going to work, spending the day running errands or meeting a friend for lunch it takes be 2 seconds to choose an appropriate outfit.

My husband spends several minutes cursing and swearing (we have a walk in closet), and rustling through various items before he finally finds his uniform, jeans or whatever he's wearing.

My side of the closet is organized according to need.

Each uniform is hung on an individual hanger.  Pants over the cross bar, and shirt over top. 

Suits are hung the same way, pants over the cross bar, shirt and jacket over the shirt.

Casual shirts are hung according to sleeve length.  Long, short, sleeveless from left to right.

Pants and skirts are hung according to type.  Skirts, capris, casual and jeans.

My rule is that I always take the item I need from the left hand side and hang the empty hanger on the end.  When I hang my clothes I put the clean ones on the right hand side so I'm always rotating through.

My clothes are all different colours but all my colours go together.  Even if I wear a purple shirt with blue pants the colours go together. On very rare occasions I may decide to match a specific outfit.

A very important rule is to have all the hangers facing the same way and to have your shirts all facing the same direction.  I like the open part of my hanger facing the back and the front of the shirt facing to the left.  I find it's easier to remove the hanger in the morning and easier to take the shirt off.  All of my hangers are white plastic.


My husband's organizational style is a bit different from mine.  He hangs his shirts, pants and jackets in whatever order they come out of the wash.  His hangers face the front or the back and when he takes his clothes off the hanger he just grabs the shirt or pants and leaves the hanger where it is.  He has white plastic, purple plastic and wooden hangers.  As I said before, he takes ages to find an outfit or a uniform for work and he's always losing things.