How to Use An Over-the-Door Shoe Organizer to Easily Organize More Than Shoes

At many stores you can get a low-cost over the door pocket shoe organizer. All of those pockets--those clear plastic pockets that let you see everything inside--surely there are more uses for such a handy organizer than simply the storage of shoes! Let’s think outside the box--er, shoe organizer--for a few ideas.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Over the Door Shoe Organizer
• A little imagination

1. Hang one on your bathroom door to store hair accessories. Gone are the days of jumbled drawers with brushes, combs, barrettes, and hair ties tangled together! If you have little girls, this idea is especially handy to keep track of their hair accessories.

2. Use it to organize art and craft supplies. Colored pencils in one pocket, markers in another, scissors in a third. Erasers, paint tubes and brushes, all can be kept accessible, yet out of the way.

3. Hang one on your home office door. Use the pockets to hold mail, receipts, rubber bands, paper clips, pens, stamps, envelopes, and all of the things that tend to clutter up a desk area.

4. Keep your sewing supplies handy in your laundry room. A tape measure, thread, safety pins, iron-on patches, scissors, needles, and pins.

5. Hang one on your child’s door. It will soon be filled up with little toys! Depending on the child’s age, they will only be able to reach the lower row or two of pockets. Use the higher pockets to store less-used items. Assign certain pockets for certain types of toys, certain colors of crayons, etc., as a great way to teach children how to sort items. You could use a sharpie to number the pockets and turn the organizer into a counting game.(“Which pocket is the stuffed monkey in? Yes, he’s in number twelve!”)

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on 3/2/2009 What geat ideas