How to Organize the Drawers in Your Home

It is much easier to find what you are looking for if your drawers are organized. It takes a lot of time to set up all of your drawers if you are not use to keeping your things in order. The good news is that once you have done all of the hard work, your drawers will be easy to maintain. Everything will have its proper place and you will be able to put it away or pick it up in seconds.

You will need:

Small plastic containers
Drawer dividers

Follow these steps:

Step 1:
Purchase several small plastic containers without lids. Use these containers to organize your bathroom and kitchen drawers, keeping like items together. In the bathroom, use one basket for toothbrushes and toothpastes, bars of soap in another, facial creams and make-up in another and so on. To organize the kitchen, group by basket: paring knives, wooden spoons, loose condiment packets, etc.

Step 2:
Purchase drawer dividers to help organize your clothing drawers. Place your socks on the left side of your drawer, insert a divider, and place your underwear on the right side of the drawer. You also can use the divider in another drawer to separate shirts and pants.

Step 3:
Fold your clothes. Your drawer dividers will help keep like items together, but your clothes can't really be organized until they are folded. Folding clothes will actually enable you to fit more clothing into your drawer. For example, laying pairs of socks flat against one another and folding over once takes up less space than if socks are balled up.

Step 4:
Organize your clothing drawers by color. Create a section for whites, lights and darks. Coordinating an outfit is much faster using this system, and since this is the way laundry is normally separated.

Step 5:
Take everything out of your junk drawer or office drawers. These need a little more attention than your clothing drawers. Decide which items you no longer need. You may find some things that you didn't even remember you owned. A good rule of thumb is to throw away anything you haven't used in the last three months. You can then use your small plastic containers to keep like items together. Maybe paper clips in one, and coupons in another. Then place the containers back in the drawers.

Tips:
You may want to use some drawer liners that will keep your clothes and office items from slipping around each time you open the drawer.

Warning:
Now that your drawers are organized you must keep up with it. Reverting back to your old ways will have your drawers a mess in as little as one week and then all of your hard work would have been for nothing.