After several years in my apartment, I finally have my bedroom closet organized to my satisfaction with the exception of my purses and bags. I have 12 currently stored in a large fabric bin that sits on a high shelf. The bin stays organized for about 5 days maximum until I start throwing bags back into it. It's a little heavy and probably not really big enough. Most of my bags aren't structured enough to be able to stand up on a shelf on their own and I don't know if there's a better way to store them. I have some extra shelf and hanging rod space. Any ideas?
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Posted 1 year ago #
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My closet has cubbyhole shelves, so I just use a couple of those for bags. Larger tote bags are hung from hooks on an over-the-door organizer in the closet across from the coat closet. And it's probably time to weed through all those again.
Would several smaller bins stay better organized than one large one? You could sort the contents by color or season or material or whatever works for you. Or sort them by which get used the most/least and put the less used ones up high and the more used ones in easy reach.
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Lots of ideas, Allison! See my blog post on purse storage.
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We got one of these for my MIL and it works great for her:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000NBV9CO/Posted 1 year ago # -
for some reason when I swapped out the stacked sweaters in my dresser drawers into the hanging cubbyhole-thing in my closet, and put the purses that formerly resided in the closet in the dresser drawers, it worked out well. also, they get less dusty.
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Use one of those sweater shelves that hang from the rod! http://www.amazon.com/Household-Essentials-01812-Six-Shelf-Organizer/dp/B0000CNQYI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299371408&sr=8-1
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I have my purses hanging on the inside of my closet door along with belts and scarves. My closet is small and using the door makes good use of usually wasted space.
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I hang bags on the back of my closet door, as well. Others are in plastic bins under my bed. The bins have wheels, so it's easy to roll them in and out.
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Hi there, and thank you all for this post, I sell handbags, so I normally put them nicely in bins with the dust bag they come with inside, and have purchased fake dust bags and then place them in a large zip lock bag. Majority of them are brand new with tags, never ever worn. I don't indulge in handbags, other than maybe 2 cheap ones per year, or one per year. I do have storage options and would rather keep them neatly in a bin, wrapped for the purchase to go smoothly.
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Hmm, have you thought of approaching this dilemma from a different angle? You say your collection stays organized for about a week after which it explodes again; do you think you could incorporate your handbag into your coming-home routine?
I'm working on this and it is hard, but I'd love to hang up my jacket properly, put my shoes where they actually belong, put gloves and other accessories in their proper places and neatly as well, keys etc. onto the tray by the door. My backpack doesn't have a designated home yet and neither does DH's, so they float around the entryway all the time; hugely annoying.
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What bothers you most about the bin as it is? What do you mean when you say the bin gets disorganized?
Because I'm wondering if you really need to change this storage system.
You have your handbags in a bin. If you can readily access the bin and select the handbag you want, I'd call that organized. No matter what the inside of the bin looks like. Ask this question: Do I need to organize my handbags further because the current system isn't working at all or am I venturing into the territory of organizing for organizing's sake and not because I need to?
Now, if you are frustrated every morning because picking out a bag takes longer than it should or if the bags are being damaged by the way they are being stored, then, yes, you do need another solution.
I like Lori's idea of two or more smaller bins, if you have room for them. There's probably some logical categories for the bags--over the shoulder vs. carry in the hand; summer vs. winter; leather vs. fabric--that you can use to divide the bags up in to more bins.
My handbags live in a drawer of an old chiffarobe that I bought because my apartment has no coat closet. All my handbags are in one drawer. If I want to use the one on the bottom of the drawer, it takes a minute or so to pull the others out, get the one I want and put the others back in. But I'm willing to spend the time to do that, because I'm not willing to spend the time daily to get the drawer any more organized than it is. Perhaps someone else looking into the drawer would think it was disorganized, but it works for me.
I guess that's another question you could ask yourself: Will the time and energy spent using a different organizational system be worth it to you? Or are you spending the right amount of time and energy now, and just think that you need to be more organized?
There's no right answer here. It's about what works best for you.
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i don't have a whole bunch of handbags, but xarcady makes a really good point that can be used across a range of decluttering and organising situations:
"Will the time and energy spent using a different organizational system be worth it to you? Or are you spending the right amount of time and energy now, and just think that you need to be more organized?"
i've never considered it before, but i guess it is entirely possible to get over-organised with some things.
the whole point of organising our stuff is to make our lives simpler and easier.
organising gone mad would surely make things more difficult and more complex.Posted 1 year ago # -
I used to have a lot of purses - they took up 2 shelves in one of my closets. Before my latest move I decided I really don't need quite so many, so I gradually brought my purse collection down to 5 (could do just fine with 4, but I have 2 similar size ones that I love just as much). Since I have so few, it's very easy to keep track of them, so for the most part they live in a wire mesh basket on the top shelf of my coat closet. The exceptions to this are the bag currently in use (obviously), which sits on a shelf by the front door, and my gym bag, which is too big for the basket and sits on the floor of the closet instead.
If you like having a lot of purses and you switch them often, I think the best idea would be to have an organizing system that allows you to see all of them (one of Jeri's many good suggestions). Having a dedicated hook or compartment for each purse would probably help avoid the mess.
However, if you're like me and tend to mainly use 2-3 bags most of the time, maybe cutting out a few would make them more manageable.
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I used to have a lot of less expensive purses and have gradually migrated to three good quality (i.e. expensive) ones. The two not in use sit happily on my closet shelf. But my sports bag collection has expanded. Due to a vendor showing up at several conferences with the same give-away, I have two idential really nice quality/size bags. One has swimming gear; one has biking gear. Plus I have a smallish daypack which has regular gym stuff. Fortunately DH put an extra shelf in the bottom of our coat closet which holds all of our sports bags - he has 3 as well for swimming, skating and regular gym. Much easier to just grab the bag for the sport of the day. I may rethink the bike bag as we now have a bike trail at the end of our street. BUt, then, I just as often like to throw the bike on the car rack and go explore somewere new. Hmmmm.
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My future father-in-law recently made me a gorgeous purse rack for all my purses, which is alot, but a woman can never have too many purses ;) He made it so that I had a hook of each of them purses and make a small drawer for my good clutch purses.
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