Essential Closet Organizers Maintenance
A thorough cleaning once or twice a year is needed for closets to be put in order, swept, and dusted. This is the time to discard the accumulation of worthless stuff.
There is a certain glamour to closets, especially old cluttered ones, with their lure of hidden treasure, rare stamps, papers, or antiques - quite apart from clothing you'd never be seen dead in today!
This is like a moon station, remote and weird; it suffers great extremes of climate, frigid cold in the winter and stifling heat during the summer months. Dust filters down from it as from a distant star, strange objects infest it.
Though seldom visited - when did you actually LOOK when you oepened the doors - it seems to have a life of its own because the things you remember distinctly storing in one place will frequently be found in another, or strewn all over the floor.
If you have cartons handy, sort out the junk with the next church rummage sale in mind and get rid of all the worthless stuff you will never get around to using. Be utterly ruthless in this, otherwise things will keep moving out of the closet to litter the rest of the house.
Store what you want to keep, carefully, in cardboard boxes and, if you have woolens stored in chest or trunk, examine them for moth damage and make sure that they are well protected with mothballs or similar. And label the boxes with what's inside!
Remember to check out other tips at Clean Out My Closet.
There is a certain glamour to closets, especially old cluttered ones, with their lure of hidden treasure, rare stamps, papers, or antiques - quite apart from clothing you'd never be seen dead in today!
This is like a moon station, remote and weird; it suffers great extremes of climate, frigid cold in the winter and stifling heat during the summer months. Dust filters down from it as from a distant star, strange objects infest it.
Though seldom visited - when did you actually LOOK when you oepened the doors - it seems to have a life of its own because the things you remember distinctly storing in one place will frequently be found in another, or strewn all over the floor.
If you have cartons handy, sort out the junk with the next church rummage sale in mind and get rid of all the worthless stuff you will never get around to using. Be utterly ruthless in this, otherwise things will keep moving out of the closet to litter the rest of the house.
Store what you want to keep, carefully, in cardboard boxes and, if you have woolens stored in chest or trunk, examine them for moth damage and make sure that they are well protected with mothballs or similar. And label the boxes with what's inside!
Remember to check out other tips at Clean Out My Closet.
posted by Lyn Devon at 3:30 PM
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