Wexistence

I spent one entire week possessed by Monica from F.R.I.E.N.D.S. The end result is this:

Identical transparent shoeboxes
I had a shoe cabinet, but it could only fit about half my shoes. I had to keep the rest of them in their boxes, which were of all different shapes and sizes and were forming messy piles in the corner. So I got rid of the cabinet and the assorted boxes and put all my shoes in these babies. Now they’re neatly stacked and since I can see through the boxes I never again have to rumage around for the pair I want to wear.

What can I say, I like boxes. I put my clothes in them too.
Instead of folding my clothes in random piles the way they used to, the maids now segregate my clothes and put them in the appropriately labeled boxes, making things much easier for me to find. This way I can take a box out of the closet, put it on my bed and rumage through that particular set without upsetting the other clothes.

Compartmentalized boxes for my belts, socks, stockings, and various odds and ends

My accessories: the one case in which boxes weren’t working for me
I used to keep my accessories in several jewelry boxes, but having them displayed on my dresser makes them a lot easier to find. I’d had that bust for a while but I couldn’t fit everything on it so I bought those two metal caddies to hang the rest of them on. They’re really for hanging mugs and kitchen utensils, but they work great for accessories too.

Bikinis, bagged and tagged
Bikinis are such unwieldy things. Even when you fold them properly they have difficulty sitting in neat piles and their strings go all over the place. Ziplock bags make them much more manageable.

My Star Wars shelf
My shelves are now organized by genre. I have designated shelves for my Pol Eco reference materials (books and readings compiled in binders by subject), comics, fantasy, hard sci-fi, soft sci-fi, horror, history, historical fiction, classical literature, contemporary literature, and children’s/young adult literature.