Organize my shoes

I hope to have this one checked off my tomorrow. I know it’s a simple task, but

1) Putting this task on here and completing it will give me a sense of self-satisfaction and prove to me that I can complete my goals; it’s better to start small and work my way up

2) My shoes are a minor catastrophe. I own way too many, and they’re scattered across the house. There are tons in the garage, the laundry room, the entryway closet, my closet and well some just here and there around the house. I hope to get rid of them and put the rest in the closet.

Oh, haha, and I remember, in the car and the truck to. I have two or three pairs in my car and probably three or more pairs in the truck which I drove before my parents got me the car and I still haven’t cleaned my stuff out of it. My word, I’m a slob.

So yeah, hopefully I can get it done. Mostly I just have to find them all. Then sort them into keep and non-keep, and then I’m going to box up all my high-heeled shoes and seasonal shoes. I bought fifteen $1 clear plastic shoeboxes from Target. I already have seven of them filled and that’s just from sorting through the shoes in my own closet and the entryway closet so that should give you some idea of how many shoes I own. It’s a little ridiculous, I know. I have a weakness :P

Anyway I really do hope to get rid of a lot of them and get the rest sorted.

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I’m starting this entry having bought the raw materials, but not even having unwrapped them.

So what did I end up deciding on for my shoe storage? To be honest, I hadn’t decided for sure till I was metres away from the checkout.

My dear Mum was kind enough to offer to trek out to ikea and DFO with me on Tuesday. After dosing up on coffee, we had a quick squiz at Howards Storage World before braving ikea. I wanted to see and price the options at HSW before scoping out ikea.

Minutes before I left home I measured the space underneath my wardrobe. I’m glad I did, because a lot of the beautiful solutions at HSW and ikea (including the tjusig shoe rack I’d had my eye on) wouldn’t fit into either of the two halves of my wardrobe.

Before the shopping commenced, I’d vaguely decided on getting:

• a shoe rack (a la tjusig) for one side of the wardrobe, where I’d put my nicer shoes that I didn’t want to get crushed.
• Several boxes for the other side, where I could dump sandals, sneakers and less delicate items. I was hoping the komplement ones would do the trick.

The first snag was the wardrobe measurements. The tjusig rack wouldn’t fit in either side by at least10cm lengthways. HSW had some great expandable shoe racks, but they were a little pricier. Since we’re moving in a few months, and I obviously have no idea what storage will be like at our new place, I decided to get a solution for now that would be as cheap as possible (but hopefully not too nasty).

Here’s what I came up with.

Firstly, the baboard shoe rack. At $9.95 its much cheaper
than tsujib. Plus it has the added advantage of fitting into my wardrobe. Both racks have the disadvantage of not providing dust protection, but I figure this is a cheap way of working out whether that will be a long term problem or not.

For the other side of the wardrobe, I settled on these komplement boxes. The komplement shoe boxes I’d originally eyed were big enough to hold maybe up to 4 pairs of sandals, but I needed a lot more room than that. These komplement boxes are much bigger. 3 of them fit neatly inside inside my wardrobe (and quite handily they came in a pack of 3). Nice and cheap too. Of course the biggest drawback is no lid, but again, a good way to temporarily see how this solution works out.

Ikea had a lot of boxes on offer, at varying prices. Other options I considered were these, these and these. I grabbed all of them off the shelf, and pretty much did a meenie-mini-moe to pick them out. And went for the cheapest of course :)

That’s the theory anyway. I haven’t unwrapped or assembled any of this yet.

Perhaps this afternoon. I need a cup of tea.

i dont have a huge amount of shoes.. okay around like 20(that i know of..).. but i dont know what to do with them. right now theyre filling up shelves and in piles on my floor.. so it must be more than just 20.. but i want to find something to keep them in maybe a bookshelf or some boxes.. idk but i need to do something. ive been looking at bookshelves and dressers lately so maybe i’ll find sumthing..

I have a lots and lots of shoes, and they were always just sitting on top of one another in the bottom of my wardrobe, gettting all misshapen, so I bought a whole heap of boxes from theclearbox.com and organised the whole lot. So exciting. I could really go crazy with the boxes though! i bought some bigger ones for all my clutches and handbags and stuff. I reckon I could organise my whole house with these dandy see-through boxes!