Organising Clothes

Hello everybody!

Well, I had a hugely tiring day yesterday. The pre-Diwali cleaning mission surely takes a while to end, isn't it?

Yesterday morning I got up with a plan to clean up my husband's and my clothes cupboard. And boy, did I clean up! The tools that I used were just cardboard boxes and bed-tables. Read on to know how! 

My husband works full time, morning to night and I used to be in the same boat until very recently I quit and started being at home. With a one year old tagging along all day now, I have fun and sometimes get a bit overwhelmed too. With all the fast paced life my husband and I used to live by, our cupboards surely looked like a fast paced hurricane had passed through it. But by the end of it all, it looked great and I was thoroughly satisfied.

So what are my take away and organisation hacks from yesterday's experience? Here it is:

With just one shelf and a hanging rod, I had next to nothing to call as a organising tool or proper space for all the items.  So, an organising hack that I used was BED-TABLES!! Yes. You read it right. We never used them anyway. So, I placed two bed-tables next to each other to give a make-do shelf to further organise my clothes. That itself made it so much easier to sort clothes like what I wear at home and what I would wear outside when I would go shopping, etc. 

Next came the denims, and don't we all love our denims and tend to go overboard while shopping for them. So, the next hack - I took an empty cardboard box I had lying around. I then folded each pair as you would when hanging on a hanger. Next step was to roll them from the waist band side and moving downwards. Then, I made the roll stand in the cardboard box. This was done for all my denims. By the end of it, I had all the jeans separately rolled into one box. This way, it didn't take any extra space and instead of ruining a pile of clothes every-time I would have taken a pair out, I had a neat box arrangement, which would never get disturbed as each pair of denims had their own space now. The same thing was done for my husband's jeans, my cotton dupattas, jersey churidars and track pants. Of course, I didn't stuff so many boxes in my cupboard. Things got clubbed as per how they were to be used.

So, this was a snapshot of the whole clothes organising project I undertook yesterday. 

Hope it helps you too. 

Do write in to tell me your organising hacks too. I would love to hear from my fellow organising divas and dudes too!

Until next time. Ciao <3

Hello again!

Well, I know that I've been out of the picture for the last few days, I was but of course busy going about my first leg of pre-Diwali spring cleaning.
Being a very recent stay at home Mom has given me ample time to potter around the house and review everything that has been stuffed in all the nooks and crannies.
So, I'm down with two rooms, one of them being my kitchen!

I used to keep asking my husband to get some woodwork done in my cupboards where I store the rations. Turns out, I already had enough space! As I cleaned out the space and re-arranged everything between my kitchen and ration cupboard, I was able to allot a specific place to everything. In fact, I'm still getting more shelves added, but now, it is to add more space to keep other useful items like my extra crockery, serving platters, etc.

So, here's a tip. Before deciding upon buying organising baskets or adding shelves to existing spaces; do an initial spruce up of the place. Check if you still need more space for storing those items. Or, like in my case, do you have more stuff to be stored which may need baskets or shelves? Knowing exactly what needs to be stored where is essential before buying or fitting in any tangible organising tools.

Keep a watch for the next update...I'm just getting started.

Happy organising!

Hi! I'm Simran.
How many of us have browsed through endless bogs and websites on organising homes and sighed when all those lovely ideas do not fit the Indian way of mess-sorting? Well, I'm tired if just sitting there reading those easy to look at DIYs. I'm here to do what really works for our Indian homes.
So, walk with me on this one and let us sort our way through our homes.