Clean Out a Closet

Series Summary

Keeping your home organized can be quite a challenge with parents’ and kids’ busy schedules to contend with. Many of our homes may look clean and organized at first glance, but they hide nasty secrets in the closet! Do you dread opening your closet door for fear of being crushed by an avalanche of clothes? Fear no more! These quick tips are easy to learn and easier to use; once you have a habit of implementing these strategies to keep your closet organized, you'll be that much better at keeping things in tip top shape.

In this series of free videos, watch as a professional home organizer gives you expert tips on how to clean out and organize your closet. You’ll learn how to start by sorting through all of you clothes, organizing them into piles, and deciding what to keep and how to get rid of those old clothes. You’ll learn how to deal with letting go of the emotional attachments you may have to those items that you’ve been holding onto for years. Once you’ve decided what you want to keep, she’ll show you what clothes to hang, what to fold, and how to use space saving boxes, shelves, and other organizational supplies to organize your accessories and create extra closet space. This series will start you along the process of organizing your closet and keeping it organized!

Video Transcript

"Hello I'm Melissa Schenk on behalf of Expert Village, today we are going to organize your closet. In our first clip let's talk about getting started with your wardrobe of clean out. Now the first thing you have to keep in mind is a time issue. Not everyone has a afternoon or a full day to be cleaning out there closet. So first you need to do is actually I know it sounds very simple but set the time to do it. Decide what you are going to be doing. Are you going to actually set aside a half a day, a whole day to go through everything. Every clothing, every piece of jewelry, your shoes, everything and do it right of the back or are you going to set a side maybe a hour. Do it in smaller time slots or tackling like say maybe today you are going to go through your shoes. Maybe tomorrow you would go through your jewelry. Maybe another day you would go through your jeans and your trousers. Another day your tee-shirts, blouses, your dresses, your business suits if you wear business suits. So that is the first fundamental thing to be thinking about is set aside the time. Figuring it out when you are going to get started with sorting out all of your clothes. How are you going to do this? Figure out a system full day, half day or tackling just a couple of items at a time. "