When the girls were little, we’d just keep their few pairs of shoes at the top of their dresser. It worked well for a few years.
But last year I realized that this set-up was no longer working: the girls have gotten older and their shoe collection has grown, too. Instead of a few pairs neatly lined up in the top dresser drawer, it had turned into a bunch of shoes stuffed to overflowing in the top dresser drawer. And trying to find matching pairs in the jumbled mess of shoes was becoming increasingly more time-consuming.
I could have pared down on the shoes they have, but both of my girls aren’t quite the minimalists that I am so I don’t want to try and stuff them into a mold they were not cut out for. So instead, we tried an over-the-door shoe organizer.
Much to my delight, we discovered that it was the perfect solution right now. Not only can we see all of the shoes at a glance–making it easy to get the pair they are looking for–but we can also tell instantly whether a shoe from one pair is missing.
Best of all, the over-the-door shoe organizer utilizes dead space, frees up their top dresser drawer, and is out of sight much of the time. Plus, so long as the shoes are returned to their proper slots, we don’t have mismatched shoes strewn about the house!
The only drawback is that the girls can’t reach some of the shoes right now and will often have to ask me to help them get a pair down or put a pair away. However, it sure beats having to dig through a bunch of shoes in the top dresser drawer to find a matching pair!
How do you organize shoes at your house? I’d love to hear!
I LOVE these! I have one on our closet door, for my shoes. Then, one in our hall closet for the hats, gloves, etc. They are wonderful!
Ah, to have a mudroom! Someday! In the meantime, our 4 kids (each with a max of 2 pr. of shoes) keep their shoes at the bottom of their closets. Two girls, two boys, makes it possible for them to each get 1/2 of a closet. This obviously wouldn’t work as well if you had more than two children sharing a room.
(And I should say, typically with only two pairs each-church and “other” 😉 Say, hypothetically, that the five year old got a most adorable pair of Cars fuzzy slippers for Christmas, or the one year old inherited 4 pair or so of the cutest little church shoes ever, well, there’d still be room.)
Disclaimer-we do live in Vegas and so, don’t deal in foot winter-wear, but I’ve loved all the additional ideas posted on how to manage boots, etc…
We are a “shoes off at the door” family so all the shoes are parked at the basement door. This can sometimes be a pain to get shoes on and off with three small children (4, 3, 1) but really does keep the crud off their shoes from getting tracked through the house. Currently we are using bookshelves that are low enough that they can reach their own shoes, but I’m always looking for a better way to organize!
We keep shoes paired neatly in the closet floors.
I use a shoe organizer for my son’s winter gear (hats, scarves, mittens, gloves, etc.). I had a “brainstorm” and came up with what I thought was a wonderful idea – only to see a week after I did it that it is also posted on Pinterest! Oh well, great idea, just not as original as I had thought! LOL!:)
(I have a different organizer for his shoes – hey, I have no little girls so I have to indulge someone while I can! – much to his father’s dismay. But as long as I am the one dressing him, I can have him wear all the shoes I want! 🙂 )
For those asking, I know the organizers come in plastic and cloth – I got mine at Walmart and was able to choose between the two. I chose plastic though, since I wanted my son to be able to see into the pockets.
It has to hang on our closet and I didn’t want the hooks showing on the outside, so here is what I did:
I used 3M hooks! The removable kind that you attach with strips.
This way there are no hooks hanging over the door AND I can choose the height that I want! (Makes it much easier for little hands to put stuff away!)
This would also work for those of you who don’t want to hang it on a door – removable 3M hooks can hang it anywhere – at any height!
This is how we do shoes for our kiddo too! 🙂
We have three girls under 5 sharing a room. The shoes were getting out of control, and to top it off the littlest one loves to wear anyone’s shoes around the house. So I purchased a plastic three drawer stacking unit from Walmart. It kind of looks like a mini dressor. Each girl has their own drawer for their shoes, slippers, hat, mittens. It has been working very well, and the little one doesn’t get into everyone’s shoes quite as much 🙂
I love having boys! Of course, my husband breaks the mold and has way more shoes than I do. One pair of tennis shoes, one pair of church/school shoes (dress shoes per uniform requirements), 1 pair of sandles, 1 pair of rain boots, and 1 pair of snow boots. The in-season shoes go on our bench by the back door and I have a basket of socks there so I don’t have to rummage and find them. This may change as they get older 🙂
Since we bought a $9,600 fixer upper special that we took down to basically studs and rebuilt ourselves, I got to plan out my mud room area. Its small but I put a lot of thought into how to make the most of it. I finally decided on having my husband build six cubbies that fit a laundry basket each, one for each member of the house hold to fit their shoes into and one for grocery shopping bags. He made it to counter height so I use the top I have a basket for keys and other such things that land near the back door.
We never wear shoes in our house and prefer to store them right near the entryway. We used to have a tall shoe rack for our shoes (there are 6 of us) but they were still “visible” and my hubby wasn’t happy with the system. Last summer, he bought a shoe cabinet. Now all of our shoes are neatly stored in there. It wasn’t cheap but is pretty well made and really helps with keeping our no foyer,no coat coat closet entry way much neater.
Wow – Glad I’m the only female in the family!! My boys have very few shoes so not so much of an issue.
The picture did surprise me! I didn’t expect so many shoes at your house! (I’m glad you explained!)
I have four girls and they each have one pair of shoes, and one pair of sandals. However, my children all have wide feet, which means expensive shoes. I make it work by buying uniform shoes, which work for church and everyday (my girls wear dresses every day).
However, most days the children prefer to go barefoot!
I guess you don’t live where it snows!
No snow here! In fact, I have a hard time getting the children to wear shoes outside in the middle of winter! It’s just not THAT cold most of the year; I’m harvesting lettuce and arugula from the garden right now 🙂
But once it gets to be April or May, they have to wear sandals or something on their feet to prevent getting burned on the patio when it is so hot outside.
Our children have four pair of shoes each (everyday shoes, dress shoes, boots/sandals depending on season) and my husband and I perhaps have five or six but with five people they add up fast! Currently we use a shoe bin by the door for in season and in use (my husband has two pair of sneakers but one is in the closet box since they are just for yard work) shoes and keep the out of season/ low use shoes in a box in the hall closet I really like the hanging idea though especially for hats and mittens or if we receive a windfall in shoes.
I keep my in-season shoes in their original boxes, sitting on each level of a tower of wire shelves on the shelf above the clothes rod in my closet. Lids get flipped underneath each box so I can pull the box out like a drawer and grab the shoes easily. Out-of-season shoes are in their covered boxes stacked on the highest wire shelves (the ones I need a stepstool to reach!). DH and DS have the shoe organizer bags, although they both tend to leave their shoes all over 😉
I’m a fan of organized mess. We keep our shoes in laundry baskets in the hallway closet (well, the ones that we wear the most frequently are in there). We each have our own basket so it’s organized but each person is on his or her own to keep his or her basket as organized (or disorganized) as he/she wants!
The thought of shoes inside dresser drawers made me feel all weird. It just seems wrong to me, but perhaps that’s because I was brought up in Europe where you only had a couple of pairs and they sat at the bottom of your closet.
The clear over the door organizers are great for hot wheels. Especially if there is a massive amount of them and you are stepping on them everyday. Perfect clean up for boys to dump into after play every day.
Our back door comes straight into our small galley kitchen. Shoes use to drive me crazy!! We have a basement door right by the back door. We use one of the canvas shoe holders that goes over the door. All we have to do is open the basement door and slip the shoes in. I also have a plastic boot try right at the door for wet shoes. It has worked great for all the shoes we wear “daily”. The rest of our shoes stay in our closets.
Can you show a picture of the top of this or tell me how it hangs off the door? I have never lived anywhere where you could hang something over the top of the door and still close the door- I don’t get it? Do you have a gap between the door and the frame? All of my doors meet flush with the frame- how to you hang something like this other wise- any ideas?
We use those hanging cloth organizers…they attach to the closet rod and hang almost down to the floor. I wear a lot of ballet flats so I can often put two pairs in a slot. And the slots are big enough that my husband’s running shoes can fit in them!
-Meg
I use the same thing for my two girls. My youngest feet are still small so I can fit one pair in one pocket. My oldest has a few pairs of boots that will no longer fit on the back of the door, so they sit on a shelf in the closet.
A friend of mine uses the pockets for her daughter too. She hangs her shoes up top and then puts barbie dolls on the bottom pockets.
We have a shoe shelf in our garage right outside our mud room door. Each child and adult has a shelf and puts his/her shoes on the shelf before coming in the house. This way we are not looking all over the house for shoes and we don’t track in extra dirt. Works wonderfully!
We use a set of hanging shelves in our coat closet. Like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Honey-Can-Do-8-Shelf-Hanging-Organizer-White/dp/B001F51ADU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328276024&sr=8-1
We have bifold doors on our closets, so a normal shoe organizer doesn’t work. Plus, I’m pretty sure my husbands shoes would never fit! I do hate winter shoes though. Right now we each have two pair on the floor of the closet – boots for the snow and our regular day to day shoes (which we always keep on the floor). It’s often a mess! But, spring is coming soon! 🙂
I love this idea!! Thank you so much for sharing!
Just a thought…maybe a step stool close by would allow them to reach the ones up higher? Not sure if that would work. I’ll have to try this out with my daughter…so needed to see this idea since we are getting ready to reorganize and clean out! The shoe basket hasn’t been working real well…works great to just throw them in real quick, but then the shoes end up getting thrown everywhere as we are searching for shoes to wear! 🙂 Can’t wait to try this!!!
My girls really like shoes too! I only have maybe 6-8 pairs total. I don’t even want to try and guess how many they have. For the last 3 years they have both stayed in the same size shoe (they are 13 and 16) and oddly enough they wear the same size.
We go through them every few month and see if they want to pare down but who wants to get rid of perfectly good shoes that still fit them, that they love. I personally don’t even buy them shoes anymore, they buy them when they have their own money.
We need a better way to organize them however I am afraid they might need 3 of the over the door things like you have. 🙂
My kids are still small and only have a few shoes each and a pair of boots, so I keep them all in a big basket at the bottom of our coat closet. We used to keep their shoes in each of their rooms, but having them in one place saves me a lot of time hunting for little shoes.
Right now we have a shoe rack that has four shelves. This method works right now, because the kids can get their own shoes.
I’m thinking about hanging one of these shoe organizers in our small downstairs bathroom for winter hats, mittens, scarves, etc. I saw the idea on Pinterest, but our coat closet has bi-fold doors. Our townhouse is so small that I need to squeeze even inch of storage out of it that I can.
Our kids’ shoes stay in our attached garage–right outside the door. We have low coat hooks for their jackets and their shoes get thrown into their own plastic crate that sits on the floor under their hook. There are times when they have to hunt around for two shoes that match because one has somehow sunk to the bottom, but it’s easy enough for them to put their shoes away. They just throw them in their crate (well, except the one kid who seems to always throw hers in front of the crate–but we’re working on that…). For my own shoes and my husbands, we use the system you have here–shoes on the back of our bedroom door. But our bedroom is downstairs and the kids’ bedrooms are upstairs and I can’t imagine how much longer it would take us to go somewhere if they all had to run back upstairs to get their shoes.
You’re supposed to put one shoe in each slot? Hmmm. I jam one pair in each slot. Guess we have a lot of shoes? LOL.
Do the shoes live in their room(s)? Keeping the jumble of shoes by the front and back doors from getting out of hand is a constant task of mine. We don’t have all that many shoes but with boots this time of year things can get out of control very fast.
You’ve inspired me to start thinking about a better system. Thanks. 🙂
This is my problem too. We use multiple doors in and out of the house and shoes are gathering everywhere. If you think of something, please share because I am stuck! Shoes worn for special occasions are fine, it’s the sneakers, boots, rainboots etc.
Our shoes still manage to become a mess between the times I clean out and toss and reorganize. HOWEVER, I found one great use for the shoe organizers that you hang in your closet – I use one to hang in our coat closet for all of our scarves, gloves, hats, etc. It makes finding a matching pair of gloves and scarf so much easier than digging through a bin and it doesn’t take up a lot of room.
I just started doing the same thing. I labelled the slots – one for each person – so everybody knows where to find their hats and gloves.
Do you have a cloth one? We were considering this approach as our mittens, hats, etc. are a total disaster. The problem we ran into was I had trouble finding one that wasn’t plastic which seemed like a bad idea with how wet our boys get their mittens. Well, and we don’t have a closet downstairs so it would have to be hung on the wall in our entryway.
Yes, it is cloth. It has a single metal hanger at the top. I believe I bought it at Target, but it was several years ago. It doesn’t take up a lot of space in width, but it has been a lifesaver on unexpected snowy mornings.
I am not sure how well it would hang against a flat wall, because it is shaped similar to shoebox rectangles on top of each other. Perhaps, a nice metal or wooden hook hanging from the wall for it to hang on would work.
I also like it because it is a neutral light beige color.
You know what, I think I have that same shoe hanger! Got it for my closet when we first moved here but it’s since been moved to the basement for out of season shoes.
I use one of these on the inside of my pantry door for small pantry items and I love it! Rice bags, croutons, ziplock bags (the whole box fits, length-wise and I take off the side box tabs to just pull out each bag ~ works great!), sauce/dressing packets and snack items (up high fr/ little fingers) like fruit and granola bars and 100 cal packs that I un-box and just stuff down in the pockets for easy lunch box filling.
Up until last week-end, my eldest son and daughter shared a room. They each had one side of the closet. I used hanging shelves to hold their shoes, and hats/mittens. Purchased at Kmart. The boys’ one comes in navy and hunter green, and the girls’ one is light pink and purple. I also bought them the matching hampers, and it was just so cute!
Cannon Kids Hanging Shelves for Boys – $11.24
http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_011W115803110001P
Cannon Kids Pop Up Hamper for Boy – $7.49
http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_011W115759110001P?prdNo=1&blockNo=1&blockType=G1
Cannon Kids Hanging Shelves for Girls -$11.24
http://www.kmart.com/cannon-kids-hanging-shevles-for-girls/p-011W118070110001P
Cannon Kids Pop Up Hamper for Girl – $7.49
http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_011W115760110001P
The shelves are so deep that I actually fit 4 pairs of shoes (especially flip-flops in the summer) on one shelf and it still looked organized.
You could also use this product to lay out their clothes for the week, using a shelf for each weekday.
They actually do make a “shoe organizer”, which also matches the other items, but I bought it to store socks for my son. And I use it for hair bows and accessories for my daughter. I hang this in the closet, and it makes those items so much easier to see and grab.
Cannon Kids Blue Over the Door Organizer – $9.74
http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_011W118115110001P?prdNo=5&blockNo=5&blockType=G5&blockNo=5&blockType=G5
Cannon Kids Pink Over the Door Organizer – $9.74
http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_011W118174110001P
On another note…my daughter has that exact same pair of Kidorable pink cat rainboots shown in your picture! In fact, I think I bought them because of a post you had about a sale on them. And she is wearing them tomorrow because it is going to rain here…
Looks just like ours! While living in a smaller home and then an even smaller apt we had to get creative…I will keep using this even in a bigger home, and you’re right, it does help you to keep track of any missing shoes.
Great idea! I need to do this for my children once we move to our new home. 🙂
we organize ours by throwing them in the entry way closet! big mess till i go through it! … i love this idea, i am going to use a slot for hats and gloves too!
Great idea! I love how it doesn’t take up extra floor space.
I converted a DVD cabinet from Craigslist into shoe storage for my kids. It has worked wonderfully for us!
http://gabrielsgoodtidings.blogspot.com/2011/07/dvd-cabinet-converted-to-shoe-storage.html
Amy, cute storage cabinet!
Oh, I love your shoe cabinet too. So creative!
I use one of these organizers to put all of the kids hats and gloves in. It has been a life saver this year and the kids love to go pick out what they want to wear each morning!
I love this idea! I am forever cleaning up hats and mittens all over my house!
Since we live in IA we have more scarves, gloves and hats that I care to admit!! But, the kids need a dry set of gloves, etc. after they play outside to use if we have to go somewhere before the wet set is dry. Anyways.. I found a good size plastic tower (about 4′ tall x 1′ wide) with 5 drawers at goodwill for dirt cheap (yay!!). I printed fairly large name labels for each drawer. I used clear packing tape to secure them on the front. It is soooo nice, I love being organized!! This would be a wonderful thing to do for pets.. if you have several and need to separate food/toys. :O)
The shoes we use on a daily basis are in our laundry/mud room. The kiddos and my shoes are in shoe pockets on the back of the door out to the garage; my husband’s huge shoes are tucked in cubbies right there (or strewn about the house). I love that we can put our shoes on as we head out to the car. Less often used shoes (church shoes, not-quite-the-right-season, etc.) are stored in a box in the children’s room under the crib. It works for us and the kids can retrieve and put away their own shoes. The only exception is my son who is only one and not walking yet. His little shoes are in a dresser drawer.
I have the over-the-door for my room (no closet) but don’t like it that much because I like having stuff put away out of sight.
In previous houses, we used shoe shelves from Costco that were placed on the floors of the closets. For boots and shoes that got muddy we had a big chest from Ikea that sat right next to the door in the garage that led to the house. This was my favorite solution; we installed casters on it for mobility and installed hinges on the lid of the chest so the kids wouldn’t have to lift the lid completely off the box every time we came home. I also liked it because it doubled as a bench so people could sit down on it (instead of on the garage floor) while removing/putting on shoes! Plus with the lid, you never had to look at a big jumble of boots. We installed hooks in the wall right above the chest and turned the whole area into a “landing” area–boots/coats/backpacks all in one place and not strewn all over the house!
This is what we do too!
I used the one of the door shoe organizers when I was in college. The girls currently take off their shoes and put them into a basket that fits under their bed. However, I was just thinking about finding this from college and seeing if it would work for the girls.
We do the same thing, only it hangs on our mudroom door with everyone’s shoes. It does not hold all the shoes we currently own (4 ppl in our family), but our most frequently worn shoes fit as well as a pair of dress shoes for each of us. Best part is we don’t trip on the shoes coming in the door from the garage! Our 5 yr old has the bottom slots so she can reach them and the baby has the top slots so no little hands misplace the baby shoes! 🙂
I did the same thing with my daughter’s shoes…LOVE it. there is also a couple of pockets free at the bottom that I put her sunglasses in so she can reach them as well as have a spot to easily put them away.
I use the over the door shoe organizers, too!
We have a small metal shelving unit in our garage, next to the door leading inside. It has 5 shelves and each child has a shelf (3 kids) and my husband and I share the other two. The kids keep all their shoes on their designated shelf and my husband and I keep our flip flops, gym shoes, everyday shoes, on our shelves. He and I keep our dressier shoes inside. This has worked great for us. We don’t wear shoes in the house so as soon as we get home, the kids put their shoes on their shelf. When we leave the house, they can easily put them on and we rarely have to look for a missing shoe. In the winter, we let the boots dry on a rug and then put them on a shelf or on a counter next to the shelf unit.
We do this as well! Much easier for the kids!! And, it’s faster to get out the door which mom loves! I might get some door organizers for my closet though!! I keep my off-season shoes up in our closet. I keep my dressy boots in those plastic bags comforters/sheets come in. Then I don’t have to dust them off once a year! (For some reason, my closet gets a little dust. I think it’s cause hubby likes to leave the door open.. he is worried damp air will get trapped and cause mold!? Men.. lol
We have a “shoe cave” as we call it, in a built in off of our kitchen. Two large cabinet doors that swing open to reveal 5 shelves, 1 for each of us for shoes. I like keeping shoes downstairs. Lots of funk on the bottom of shoes! The kids can reach it and the doors keep our puppy out of it.
I was just going to ask how to keep a dog from nabbing your shoes! My son wears a size 15 shoe, which is too big for the dog… but she sure loves to grab mine and frolic around the house with them! Wish I had the space for a shoe cave–sounds like a great solution!
Size 15! I choked on my tea! My husband wears a 6.5;) I have to say the shoe cave is one of my favorite things. The kids like to keep socks in there too so they don’t have to run back upstairs. Our pup, Risby, is the shoe police. If a shoe is sticking out of that door, watch out! 😉 He also hangs out near the cave when we’re using it. I think he must like the smell!
I’m glad to know it’s not just our dog that is always bringing us shoe “presents.” Every time we come home, he picks up a single shoe and tries to bring it to us. If we dont’ take it immediately, he takes it for a walk around the house. We never know where we’re going to find them. Everyone in my house has small feet, so we’re constantly searching for snatched shoes! I’m hoping the over the door organizer will help with this once we find them all of course……:)
We do a shoe basket under their bed. If the basket is too full it doesn’t slide under the bed very nicely and then it is time to clean clean out the basket. It has worked for us so far. We have hooks on the back if the door for robes, etc.
This is what we do as well. I try to clean the basket out once a month or so. It can fill up with sand, dirt, grass & wood chips (from the playground) pretty quickly. Plus even my two-year-old can put her shoes away. Unless she’s throwing a hissy fit. Then I just walk away. 🙂
Love it. But in the winter is our biggest problem – shoes and boots coated with slushy muddy mess just can’t be put away right away. And we seem to have tons of these.
Anyone have tips for managing “winter shoes”?
I saw a great idea on pinterest a while back where someone took a baking sheet and lined it with smooth river stones to put muddy shoes on – the rocks allow the wetness and sludge to drain off into the baking sheet and it’s less mess and easy clean up!
What a great, inepesnive solution to an expesnive boot tray! Thrift stores are a great source for baking sheets for .25 to .50, too!
When you walk in our house from our garage there is a little floor space and a closet with folding doors right in front of you. I bought a rug to fit the area but didn’t want all the wetness and slush either. So I also bought a “nicer” black with a rim around the edges mat and placed it on the rug. Now when the kids come in the wet shoes or boots get placed right on there until dry.
Also because of the doors being bi-folds I can’t use a organizer like this. Instead inside the closet I have a pink and a blue hanging shoe organizer. The kids love that they each have their own and they can easily find their shoes and it makes leaving the house so much easier as they don’t have to go to another room to get their shoes.
I had a sterlite bin for hats, gloves, scarfs but it was getting to be a jumbled mess everytime they went for their stuff. I wanted to find something smaller and wouldn’t take up alot of room and wouldn’t cost much. However, everywhere I looked bins or baskets were way over what I wanted to pay. Then one day i was at the dollar tree and found the perfect solution. Plastic bins in different colors! I bought 3 and it’s made my life EASY and it only cost $3!!!
I am now loving my closet!!
Boot trays…
Love our boot trays. I found them at Bed, Bath and Beyond. We have two – one by the front door, one by the back. Keeps drippy, muddy shoes all in one place and the lip keeps the mess from spilling on to the floor.
To clean, take the tray outside and shake out any dirt clumps. Then mop it whenever you have your mopping supplies out.
Yep, I’d get a boot tray. I found one last year at Walmart for $5. Well worth the money, for sure!
We also have a carpet remnant just inside our door that we keep shoes on in the winter. Our landlord left it after new carpet was installed last summer.
“My to my delight, we discovered that it was the perfect solution right now.” – I think you have a typo in that sentence… 🙂 I’m guessing it should start with “much”…
We have an over-the-door organizer, too – that’s the only way I survived in college, and it continues to be a lifesaver in our small condo. 🙂
Crystal, you also have a “show collection” which sounds like more fun than shoes.
“and their show collection has grown, too”
😉 Thanks for catching my typo!
I know some people that would call theire abundance of shoes their “show collection” 😉
Would you believe I just bought one of these earlier today? It’s up, and hopefully this weekend we’ll be able to launch a massive hunt to find and match all the little girl shoes floating around this house! I’m hopeful that I may be able, with some shoes at least, to be able to fit a pair into one pocket so we can fit in as much as possible. Right now my girls share a room, so it will probably become full very quickly, but once they each have their own room (God willing), they will definitely each have one! My girls are eight and four, but petite, so I plan on putting off season shoes on the top, if possible and keep the ones currently in use as close to the bottom as possible. Great minds must truly think alike!:)
I really like the idea of the over the door shoe organizer. Where did you purchase it? I’d really like to get one because our current method is not working. We have a shoe basket, but its a big mess.
I bought one today at Big Lots:) I thought eight dollars was a pretty good price.
My husband and son don’t have many shoes, so they each generally keep one pair out for everyday wear, and put their other pair or two in the coat closet. I have a hanging shoe organizer in the coat closet for mine.
Since I’ve been trying to get rid of shoes that I don’t wear often, I had some extra space this fall, so my shoe organizer also holds my son’s extra shoes, and all 3 of us have a slot in there for our winter accessories (hat, gloves, scarf, etc.).
Could you “add” a length of something to each hook so they whole system hangs lower?
Thank you for posting this! I have been wanting to do this for some time now but am having trouble finding a shoe organizer like this. Where can I find one?
I found one at Lowe’s. But i’m almost positive you could fine one on Amazon!
I found them at Target in the row with the ironing boards etc…. I recommend the clear ones.
We do the same thing. We have three girls; two in one room, one in another. Both rooms have the over the door hangers like yours, and like you say, other than the fact they can’t always reach the top ones, it works great. We try to keep the less-used shoes towards the top. Also, FYI I keep one of those on the inside of my craft room door as well. I keep my scissors, punches, adhesives etc., all my craft accessories in them.
Jen
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I tied a ribbon thru the holes in the organizer and looped it onto the hooks so the whole thing can hang a couple of feet lower. This allows my 3 year old to reach two more rows than she otherwise could have.
Love it!
That’s a great idea…we put the fancy shoes and the out of season shoes in the top most pockets. Honestly, I don’t have a lot of shoes for them. They wear their sneakers day to day so that pair is in the hall closet along with ours. The rest we store in just one of the girls’ closets.
I love this system! We enter our home through the garage into a small laundry room. There is no space for our shoes, so we hung the shoe organizer on the back of the door and it works perfectly!
I use one of these organizers for my bathroom stuff 🙂 NO cabinet space 🙂
“I could have pared down on the shoes they have, but both of my girls aren’t quite the minimalists that I am so I don’t want to try and stuff them into a mold they were not cut out for.”
I absolutely love that. I think it is so great that you’re not only able to recognize that your daughters are not like you in every way, but that you’re also willing to let them be less minimalists. It just made me so happy to read that.
Well said Mei-Lyn! I am NOT an “organized” person…so I don’t expect my daughter to be, but when she is in a “cleaning” mood I don’t discourage her either 🙂
I agree! What a lovely way to honor your girls.
Ditto!
I thought so as well! It’s so easy as a parent to assume your child/children will be happy doing the same things you like but it’s just not always true.
This is EXACTLY what we do! For now, all 4 of our kids’ shoes fit in one of these organizers because they are all still little. i bet we’ll need to add another one in another year or so. Looks great!
We live in an old house with not much storage space at all. The kids’ rooms are upstairs so I didn’t want to wait for them to run up their shoes every time we left the house. We bought a large IKEA expedit bookshelf to handle all the ‘junk’ that comes in the front door. The unit is by the front door. Each member of the family gets a cubby for their shoes. We also have cubbies for socks in baskets. We also have a cubby for mail that comes into the house, another for magazines, etc. It works for us!
This is exactly what we do, and it works wonderfully! I have 6 kiddos and the 5 boys each have 2 pairs of shoes in the organizer. My daughter, however gets to have a few more pairs in her very own organizer. A girl needs her shoes;)
We recently went to a basket for each of our girls (3, ages 6,4, and 2) under their beds as our shoe collection was getting out of hand as well. It works well for us and we even bought a large box for our own shoes for under our bed. Even our 2-year-old gets the idea…pretty much. She is pretty fond of putting her shoes in her sister’s baskets 🙂
I saw the idea on Pinterest to use one of these as an organizer for household cleaners. Got one on clearance from Walmart, and hung it inside a hall closet door. It is probably my favorite organizational item in my house now! All the cleaners/air fresheners/stain removers, etc. can be seen at a glance, and it freed up precious cabinet space!!!
I’ve had one in my kid’s closets for a while. Just did the cleaner thing after seeing it on pinterest too. Love it!
Love this tip for cleaner organization! Thanks for sharing.
I want to do this, too. We don’t have a laundry room in our townhouse, bu the stacking washer and dryer are right next to the upstairs bathroom. I think I might put one in the bathroom door to free up space under the bathroom sink. I just need to make sure the kids can’t reach anything that could be dangerous. Thankfully, most of our cleaners are homemade and fairly safe, but I still wouldn’t want them spraying vinegar all over the house 🙂