Sorting and cleaning up your closet

Your bedroom is a place of comfort, style and a calming setting. Your closet is a place of color sorted and put together specifically in order to find what you are trying to wear. I'm not going to lie, my room can get very messy; even for a person who loves sleek, minimalism and a daring color palette. For some reason I believe items you own have a place in your home. When you shop for décor, clothing, furniture, you typically buy because of the look, the aesthetic, and sometimes the low price, but this is where you and I become two different people. I shop and I couldn't care less about lower pricing. I care about where the object or clothing may go. If I shop, I make sure space is available for that newer item. Your bedroom is where you can truly express yourself by the colors on your wall to the small sentimental gift given to you from family. A bedroom may seem like a place that doesn't need to be cleaned. you normally have a guardian say "clean your room, family is coming for dinner!" and your instant smart comment revolves around you saying "I didn't know dinner was held in my room." well it doesn't have to be but I've noticed over the years, as my room becomes dirtier, I become a little more moody, I tend to feel disorganized but when my room is picked up and organized I find myself calm, relieved and at peace.

A closet should be the place in your room that feels great, a place that's very clean, put together and very little items in sight. My closet consists of my shirts, jackets, and sweaters hung, jeans and leggings folded on a wooden stand that holds extra clothing that is seasonal or even items that I do not have hangers for. Of course I have shoes on the floor that can easily get messed up as I do not always put things back where they belong. I also have shelving above where my hangers are, and this is were my cleanness takes a turn. Above the hangers I have an array of duffle bags and a container that holds crafts. May not seem to unorganized but its definitely not the neatest. During the week you typically have your laundry washed but you don't always have the motivation to hang it or put it away. So the basket of unfolded clothing, well doesn't always leave the basket and as the week carry's on you find yourself mixing the clean clothes with dirty clothes and/ or the clothing lands on your floor and soon after your room becomes an obstacle.

In this first photo, this is what my closet looks like when I forget to have a laundry day. My closet can normally be the first to collapse into a complete mess. This may look like it requires some hard working hours but not gonna lie, I worked for about 45 minutes and to be honest, these simple steps im going to show you will be the best way to organize and clean up a closet.

The first step is to pick the clothes up off the floor and make piles. These piles consist of putting dirty clothes into a basket, maybe even a pile of dirty towels and a pile of jackets that need to be hung. Piles really help in any case when you are cleaning. Piles can be an easy way to make your cleaning process go smooth and it's much easier to figure out where the stuff may go. You can always have piles for trash, charity and miscellaneous. 

As of now, your piles are put aside and your floor is officially visible. this is where I like to move in sections. I went straight to the unorganized shoes and even where trash laid from Christmas presents. I grabbed a trash bag and threw in the unneeded scraps of garbage and recycled unneeded boxes. I went ahead and took my shoes and organized them so each pair could be seen and easy to grab when running out the door.

 The last thing I did was wash all clothes and I went ahead and hung everything up and folded my leggings and jeans. This was not going to be a huge cleaning day where I really dig deep and get rid of a lot of clothing and other stuff. this was more of a sort out and pick up which was a simple but yet effective way to show how easy it can be to clean in 3 steps under an hour.

my question to you is, what is your mood when your closet is disorganized?