Project Simplify #1--The Master Closet

For the last few weeks I have been working on decluttering, which I confess is one of my favorite things to do!  I was excited to discover Simple Mom's, "Project: Simplify."  This has been a great way to keep me from going on the warpath throughout the whole house, which is usually what happens when I get the urge to declutter :)  She is taking 5 weeks and focussing on one hot-spot a week.      The first hot spot was the master closet--this happens to be the worst place in my home.  It seems that everything gets thrown in there.  The problem is compounded by the fact that all of our closets are also are storage areas and we don't have a dresser in our room. So, here are my "before" pictures--I am physically cringing as I reveal this... I know it's bad--ugh!!! So anyway, I was standing there staring at all of this stuff, trying to figure out what needed to be in my closet and what would be better in the other closets in the house, and my mind was getting all frazzled...so, I made a little chart to help me sort it all out...This actually helped me quite a bit! :) Then I went through all of our clothes to see if there was anything that we are not wearing and can get rid of--I was fortunate that the weather is already changing and winter is pretty much over so anything we didn't wear this winter didn't make the cut :) Here are the end results: We each have one shelf for our jeans and pants.  Mark's dress pants are also hanging next to his dress shirts on the right.  The hanging shoe bad contains the "out of season shoes" and the regularly worn shoes hang on the door rack. Yes, my husband does have more shoes than me! :) The other shelves contain: sewing supplies and jewelry, baby gifts (we have A LOT of babies being born in our church :), and other gifts we find and pick up along the way. All of our shirts are hanging:  white hangers for me, black for Mark :) Maternity and my Fat clothes--Ha ha :) We each have one box of clothes that contain the next season and the Misc. box contains gifts we pick up for the girls--shhh... :) I know it's not all pretty and coordinated, like I would loooove, but it is organized.  I will work on "prettying" it up slowly, as the budget allows :)