Whether you need to get your home, your work, or your overall life in order -- we've got your back. With 40 hacks to organize everything from your closet and kitchen cabinets down to your weekly meal schedule, you're sure to find a few ideas to help you get your life together.
1. Color Sorted Books
"My synesthesia means that I remember books better by their color than by title or author, so this is what happens when I have enough shelf space!" says one Reddit user, who clearly has plans for every weekend of eternity.
Honestly, these bookshelves are so beautiful to look at that it doubles as home decor, or even as art. It makes it appealing to read, and also calms our daily anxieties. We wonder how she organizes her bookmarks.
2. S.O.S. = Save Our Sets
Beds look so much more inviting and cozy when the sheets and pillowcases match. But just like socks, the patterns and colors can get easily separated and feel lost for forever.
Keep your sets together by folding the sheets and duvet covers inside the pillowcase! That way, your bed spread is ready to go without the searching or hassle. Now all you need is a candle and a book for a good night's sleep.
3. Keep Your Yarn Together
Is anyone else a fan of needlepoint or is it just us? Now, we know from Instagram how much everyone enjoys arts and crafting every now and then, so make sure your yarn is easily findable (and usable)!
Clothespins just don't do the trick. Use plastic or paper tabs, wrap the string or yarn around it, and organize it into small containers by color so it's ready to go when you are. No more tangles!
4. Cables, Cables, and More Cables
Laptop charger, phone charger, nice camera charger, portable phone charger, watch charger...we have so many chargers which means so many cables that it's hard to find what we need, when we need it.
Put all your cables inside of toilet paper tubes, or cut the center of a paper towel tube and you have free cable organizers ready to go. Keep the filled tubes in a box, and store it in your closet or TV console.
5. Clothing-Ends
If you've traded in a phsyical home library for a Kindle, put those bookends to good use by using them as t-shirt ends in your dresser drawers! Fold t-shirts and keep them upright.
Not only is it easy to find what shirt you're looking for, but you save so much space as well that there's more room to put other clothes in...or use an excuse to do more shopping!
6. Meal Prep Ready To Go
If you plan your meals for the week before grocery shopping, you can return home and organize each meal by ingredients in little bins inside your refrigirator. This way, you don't have add 'searching for items' to the recipe.
Just divide up the ingredients into the bins, and pull each one out when you're ready to cook. It makes your fridge much more attractive to look at, instead of opening it up with fear that something will go old or fall out.
7. Tea Station
The most minimal way of keeping your tea (or coffee) in one clean space is via vertical organizer. Keep your mugs, coasters, teas, and anything else you add to your favorite drinks upright.
It gives you more counterspace, which we never seem to have enough of, and doubles as a display for your best mugs. It's also great to put in guest rooms (or even your bedroom) so you always have access to a drink.
8. Did Someone Say Sauce Drawer?
When takeout and delivery is at our fingertips, it's easy to find your kitchen and dining room surrounded by little sauce packets and boxes. This Redditor used a silverware organizer tray for his sauces!
They are organized by color, flavor, and even look more appetizing than just finding stray ones tucked away in random drawers or bags. And on the bright side, you can cook a whole meal by combining the best sauces.
9. Cleaning Product Holder
We wish we had enough shoes to fill one of those door-hanging shoe racks, but we certainly have enough cleaning supplies to make it a good and worthwile purchase for our homes!
Hang the shoe holder on the back of your pantry door and fill it with all your cleaning supplies -- baking soda, windex, sink cleaner, table cleaner, you name it. The spaces are big and mesh so you can fit virtually any product in there.
10. Need To Read
Emeryreads suggests organizing books based on reading status -- grouping the ones you need to read at the top, and already read ones on another rack or somewhere else to keep motivation high.
Take it one step further and arrange the ones you need to read based on priority, so you never have to decide or mull around on what to read next. Organize the already read ones by how much you loved them, so you can feel confident letting friends borrow them.
11. Toothbrush Holders
Toothbrush holders -- AKA the usual cups -- build up lots of mold and wetness, getting gross pretty quickly and also hard to clean. Sometimes, the brushes even fall and touch eachother. Nasty.
Using clothespins to hold up toothbrushs are great for the home and on the go. They keep toothbrushes separated, and at a 45 degree angle so water properly drains off of them. Plus you can rotate out the clothespins so you never have to clean them.
12. Candle Holders
Burn a lot of candles in your home? We're guilty as charged. But when these bad boys run out, we clean out the remaining wax and reuse them as holders for anything you can imagine.
They come in handy for holding bathroom items such as cotton swabs and cotton balls, and can also be used to store cookies, floss picks, chargers, and just about anything that you can imagine around that size.
13. Snacking Made Easy
Cardboard snack storage boxes take up so much space in your pantry or cabinet. Instead, when you buy snacks next, empty out the context from the box and organize it in one drawer with plastic box dividers.
Print out labels, and make snacking fun and accessible. It's beautiful, enticing, and makes you and your kids more excited to choose the snack that fits their mood and their hunger.
14. Towel Rack Jewelry Holders
Necklaces get tangled, Bracelets get knocked off the dresser by your playful cat. Earrings get overlooked. What's a better way to see what you could add to your next ensemble than seeing everything laid out?
Install thin towel racks near your mirror or closet, and hang your jewelry around it. You can have one rack for each type of jewelry and can choose what you're going to wear pretty quickly. No earring overlooked!
15. Game Night Made Right
Use a shoe rack (or two) to organize all your favorite games to make picking the next thing you're going to play a breezer. You don't have to worry about any game falling over, or the pieces spilling everywhere.
You can take this one step further by keeping a small plastic box in the shoe cabinet cupboard for any missing pieces that you find when cleaning up (yes, it happens randomly). Now you can keep all your games in-tact.
16. Lazy Susans For Everything
Lazy susans are on of our favorite inventions. It saves space and you can put literally anything on it. Here, this Redditor used lazy susans to organize all of their sauces and condiments.
Give each lazy susan a theme -- Asian sauces, oils, balsamics, dressings, veggie pastes -- and find whichever ingredient you're looking for instantly. We just made dinner time a lot sooner.
17. Shark Week Prep
Having boxes of tampons and pads and whatever else you use during your time-of-the-month, or as needed, falling off the top of the toilet, or spilled in the bottom of your bathroom cupboard is not cute.
When you're in need, you don't want to be scrambling around. Take out all the products from their boxes and put them into one large, clear container for easy access during shark week.
18. Ice Cube Trays for Makeup
For all your compacts, whether it be powder, eyeshadow, foundation, or whatever new makeup product trend there is - use ice cube trays to keep track of the colors and give you peace of mind.
Ice cube trays are incredibly underrated for their use in storage and easy organizing. You can also use them for organizing small jewlery -- like rings or earrings, or office items like paperclips and staples.
19. Bullet Journaling
Your life needs organizing, too. Keeping all your thoughts and information in your brain can be exhausting. Bullet journaling is like a closet for your thoughts. There are many methods out there on how to use it -- you just need to figure out how to make it work best for you!
Declutter your mind, compartmentalize everything you're thinking about, and you'll have more time to focus on productive thoughts. Yes, your mind and heart need a spring cleaning too!
20. Garbage Bag Your Clothes
Moving homes gets messy, FAST. But if you group your closet into garbage bags, and tie the hangers, it makes moving your closet as easy as can be. Forget folding clothes up and creasing them in the suitcase.
As soon as you move into your new place, your closet is arranged instantly, saving you time to go unpack the other stuff. It keeps your clothes clean and saves you from doing laundry.
21. Egg Carton Storage
Egg cartons are amazing to use as storage for toys, makeup, nail polish, office supplies...pretty much anything you can imagine. It's good for the environment since you can upcycle the packaging of a food product you probably buy often.
You can also paint the egg cartons so people won't even realize that's what it originally was! Make it fit the color of the room, and it will become instant, cheap decor!
22. Slick Pantry Slider
Not all of us have a pantry or ample room for spice storage. This hack uses a vertical, standing drawer that tucks behind the fridge for a very thin but space-saving rack for spices!
Because of it's height, you can fit in tons of spices and have room for more items like peanut butter, nutella, and anything else that doesn't need to be refrigerated. It'll make you look like a kitchen magician.
23. Yoga Hanger
Storing a yoga mat is tricky. If it's just standing up, it will probably unfold. Plus, pets love to scratch these things, which are expensive. Then the pieces get everywhere and you need to buy a new one.
Say goodbye to that issue by hanging up any old rack and keeping your mat tucked away and out of reach from your cat or dog. You can go minimal just by screwing holders into the wall, or find a carpenter to build a wooden one.
24. Apothecary Nail Polish Jars
Need some functional decor? These glass apothecary jars are perfect for holding smaller polish collections. They look like decor, but function as storage. You can get different jars for different colors or seasons.
These almost look like they belong in a salon or as decor in a museum shop as they are simply beautiful and when containing lovely nail polish, look like art themselves.
25. Medicine Cabinet Freedom
Nothing is worse than trying to find pain relief for a cold or fever, and having to sit on the bathroom floor and search through all your medicines, seeing what's expired and what you can still take.
By organizing your medicines based on symptoms or common plagues, you can easily find what you're looking for when you're in a rush or just don't have the strength. Hello, wellness!
26. Drying Rack Storage
Drying racks are great because their height serves as a huge space saver. This Instagrammer used a dish drying rack as a space to hold all of her party supplies and snacks.
These make party planning a breeze because you see exactly what you need and if you have to buy more of anything. Create dish drying rack holders for fancy dinner parties, wine storage, and more.
27. Mask Holder
Dermatologists reccomend wearing a new mask every couple of hours to slow bacteria growth and prevent mask acne. So turn your collection into decoration and keep it by the door so you never forget to leave home without one.
A mask holder station is a great place to leave not only your mask, but also keys, sunglasses, and anything else you need to grab on your way out the door. You'll never have to look in coat pockets again to find a crumpled one!
28. Binder Filing In The Kitchen
Let's face it, the digital transfomation has us throwing lots of old office furniture in the trash. But in this case, we're repurposing it for more useful things, including this binder filer.
Use strong double sided tape to attach the filer to the inside of your kitchen cabinet for easy access to all your food wrapping supplies -- aluminum foil, plastic wrap, sandwich bags, and more.
29. Ladder Planter
Decorative ladders have made their way into the home with speed, but instead of hiding it by draping towels over it and shoving it in the bathroom, let it take center stage as a plant holder.
Buy plant holders that usually go outside on the balcony, and attach them instead to a nice, elegant ladder so you can add loads of green to your house without compromising on space.
30. Ziplock Packing
Not everyone can afford, or even have room to own a vaacum packer kit. Instead, when you're filling up your suitcase, roll every item into a catagorized plastic bag, then squeeze all the air out!
Organize the bags by underwear, bras, pants, tops, workout clothes...whatever you need. This will allow you to fit more items into your suitcase and even leave room for the things you'll be buying while you're away.
31. Shoe Stackers
One can never own too many shoes. But one can run out of closet space for them. Propping up shoes up horizontally allows you to save space but also keep your shoes on display and out from under the bed.
If you don't want to purchase special plastic shoe stackers, you can use any boxes you having laying around, including the very same shoe box from the purchase! Happy stacking!
32. Clothes Prepping
We don't have time to choose what we want to wear in the mornings because we're often too busy hitting snooze. By hanging up the usual keys/mask console in your bedroom, you can hang up your outfit planned from the night before.
This way, your clothes have time to breathe and de-wrinkle. You can lint roll them, spray clothing perfume, and have the outfit ready to go when you're in a rush. No reason to not be stylish.
33. Fabric Tape on Chargers
Cords get complicated and tangled. And if you have roommates or kids, you'll want to know instantly who's charger belongs to whom. Wrapping fabric tape around chargers helps them stand out quickly.
Fabric tape is sticky enough to cling on, but not too sticky that it damages the charger. It's also a lot prettier to look at than a regular cord or masking tape. Never fight over chargers again.
34. Scarf Rack
Some people choose to express themselves and upstage an outfit through a decorative neck scarf. If you are one of those people, then it makes sense to repurpose a shoe rack as a scarf rack!
Fold up the scarf just enough so it fits in the slot, and you can easily spot the colors or design and choose the right scarf for your outfit or mood for that day. These racks hold so many scarves, and do so without giving them wrinkles like keeping them in the dresser drawer would,
35. Cupcake Wrapper Holders
Baking is a great way to relieve stress. But searching for baking supplies can counter that therapeutic effect. Using a plastic jewelry or makeup organizer doubles perfectly as a cupcake wrapper organizer!
Easily choose which cupcake paper you feel like using for your creation with this simple hack. It leaves the tins in tact and ready to go so you don't have to fumble around the kitchen, collecting spare wrappers.
36. Weights And Wine
While we wish we could fill this entire wine rack with wine, there's another -- and dare we say better -- use for it: a weight rack! Stick your colorful weights in the wine bottle slots to make the rack colorful and useful.
Who knows, maybe you'll reach for the weights the next time you think about drinking since working out releases endorphins and provides productive happiness. Feel the burn!
37. Ready To Go Batteries
While we have chargers for almost everything, batteries are not yet obsolete. They go in TV remotes, power small toys, and still, for some reason, get lost in our homes immediately.
Using a makeup organizer to store your batteries makes swapping them out a lot less of a hassle. Organize them by battery type, so next time that vibrator runs out, you know where to run to!
38. Benches Forever
A bench is stylish, serves as extra sitting space, and brightens up a room. A good bench, however, provides the extra benefit of storage so you can save space for sheets, winter coats, and more.
Make sure you keep your furniture functional. These types of benches can be found at many home furniture stores like Ikea, and are incredibly easy to set up. It's hidden storage at its finest.
39. Cleaning Bins
It's hard to get motivated to clean. These plastic bins, labeled by where needs to be cleaned and how often, will give you that encouragement you need to get your home sparkling!
Just put all the cleaning supplies per each room or floor into a bin, and bring that bin (or leave it) in the room so you save some running around time and trade it in for scrubbing time.
40. Wrapping Paper Holder
What's better than getting a present? Ripping it open to see what it is! Wrapping paper isn't just for the holidays -- it's used year round. So how can you store it without it getting wrinkled?
Cut the bottoms of a fabric, hanging shoe rack and slide those wrapper paper tubes right in there! You'll never lose sight of the expensive paper, and you might even have more fun giving the gift.