Doing a major deep clean of your closet is one thing, but if you want to put that off as long as possible, you need to know how you can take steps every day to keep your custom closets neat and tidy. Deep cleanings should still happen eventually, but when your closet is generally maintained, you won’t have to do it as often.
Here are five daily tasks that will help you keep your closet clean and organized:
- Make Sure the Floor Is Clear
- Put Clothes Away Immediately
- Store Frequently Paired Items Together
- Check for Visibility
- Make Sticking With it Worthwhile
Take a look at the everyday things you should do to keep your custom closet clean on a daily basis.
Make Sure the Floor is Clear
When your closet floor has a pile of shoes or bags taking up space, it not only looks much messier, but those items may be hiding other belongings that have fallen to the floor. In addition, anything on the floor is likely to get stepped on and potentially damaged.
A better strategy is to just keep the floor clear every day. Put shoes on shelves, in boxes, or on organizers. Hang purses on hooks or put them on their own shelf. If you make sure the floor is clean every day, there should never be much to deal with at one time.
Put Clothes Away Immediately
HuffPost shares a list of 21 daily tasks recommended by professional organizers, and for people interested in closet cleaning specifically, their organizers recommend that you put clothes away right away. That can mean putting dirty clothes in the hamper and putting clean clothes away in drawers and on shelves and clothing rods. The important thing is that you don’t leave them lying around.
You should also clear dirty clothes out as frequently as possible, but it’s less of a problem to take an extra day or two to get to the laundry than it is to leave the laundry strewn around the floor and surfaces instead of putting it in the hamper. Clothes scattered everywhere will make the closet seem more chaotic than it really is and that may drain your motivation to do any cleanup.
Store Frequently Paired Items Together
Speaking of putting things away, how you put them away can matter as much as putting them away at all. One thing you can try as you’re storing clothes is to pair items when you already know you wear them together frequently.
You may be accustomed to ordering clothes by type, or even by color, but these aren’t the only options. You tend to dig through drawers and racks of clothing when you’re looking for a specific item – such as a top to go with the pants you’ve picked out – and that can make a mess. If you know there’s one top you wear with those pants more often than not, store them together. Not only will your outfit be ready faster, but you’ll also skip the searching motions that leave stacks of clothes rumpled or cause items to fall off hangers.
Check for Visibility
One way to avoid searching for misplaced items is to make sure your closet has a lot of visibility. A closet that’s arranged so you can see everything both looks neat and stays neat.
You can create visibility by folding clothes vertically, or even rolling them and standing the rolls vertically in your drawer. That way, you never scatter a stack of folded clothes to find what you need. Use dividers to sort your hanging clothes into categories with some space between them so you can see where everything is.
Make Sticking With it Worthwhile
It takes time to build habits. If you’re not in the habit of doing little things to keep your closet clean on a regular basis, although you might start with good intentions, it will be easy to fall off because you got busy or distracted and just forgot. Over time, daily tidying will become ingrained in your daily routine and you’ll do it without thinking about it.
Until it becomes a habit, make it worth your time to do these tasks. Reward yourself for sticking to goals, like tidying the closet every night for a week, two weeks, and so on. You don’t need to do anything big or expensive. You can reward yourself with something as simple as an episode of your favorite show before bed or a cup of coffee from a coffee shop you love.
Conclusion
Deep cleaning the closet is necessary, but keeping it clean on a daily basis can help keep you from having to deep clean too often. Committing to a few small tasks every day, like clearing the floor and putting clothes away can help keep your closet from needing a more intensive cleaning session until you’re ready.
Source
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/professional-organizers-tidying-tasks-every-day_l_606ccf16c5b68ddf94b604d2