How to Organize with Hanging Shoe Caddies

For most of us, there's no room in the house that couldn't use a little organizational help. Shoe organizers that hang on walls or doors can be found really inexpensively at any dollar store. For heavier items, you can find better quality and transparent ones at home improvement or department stores.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Shoe Organizers
• Thumb tacks and/or nails
• Cloth tape
• Markers

1. Put a sturdy organizer on the inside of the closet doors in a small child's room. These are perfect for crayons, small books, school supplies and game pieces. If you bought one without see through pockets, use the cloth tape and magic markers to label each pocket. Kids can add stickers to personalize them.

2. Use an organizer on the wall for a teenager's room. They can put jewelry, cell phone (make a small hole in the back for the recharge cord), TV remote, iPod, pens, pencils and more in the pockets. Use the transparent ones and let teens decorate the pockets with colored markers.

3. Use organizers in your home office to store paper clips, pens, labels, batteries, extra checks and registers, stamps and envelopes. In the sewing room, store pin cushions, ribbons, buttons, and all your notions. A very sturdy transparent one is great on the back of a door in the kitchen,too. Hold seldom used utensils, pot holders, kitchen towels, dry sponges and coupons. Food items such as spices, drink mixes, puddings and gelatins, and baby foods will also work.

4. Use these shoe organizers all over the house: in the laundry room, garage, bedrooms and wherever you have a lot of small items to organize. They are great in the bathrooms, too, holding medicines or hair and bath goodies.

5. Shoe organizers provide a great deal of storage for a very small investment. Buy several and declutter your whole house!

Tips & Warnings

• Beware for the really cheap organizers you can find for $1 or $2. The stitching between the pockets comes loose almost immediately.