How Organizing a Closet Saved My Marriage…

Okay so this is not going to be a long post, but I had to share.  Now first I have to say that my husband is not the handiest, but can work a drill and tap measure.  So we have a Mudroom off our kitchen that leads out to the garage and it was a disaster!  There are only four of us but the room was a mess!  We had a million shoes, jackets, and other miscellaneous items laying all over.  I was tripping over items, losing items in the mess and ready to garbage bag everything!

Before:

I was fighting with my husband over his stuff being everywhere and how I couldn’t take it anymore!  He would lay his laptop bag right inside the door and I constantly tripped over it and he never put his shoes in the black bins I set up.  Now the bins are great for toys and clothes, but they just weren’t working for shoes.  So I told my husband he needed to fix it!  We went to Menards (local home improvement store) and decided upon silver shelving since the white would stand out too much (the room is right off our kitchen and since the door is always open, the white shelving would be seen all the time.)  We bought the shelves, tracks, and brackets, and my husband even found a great slide out basket.  The whole project cost maybe about $200, but it definitely saved us from many more fights.

After:

Since the shelves have been up, I have not tripped over anything and we are now a much happier family!  We can all find our shoes, coats, and winter accessories.  The drawer has been a lifesaver too since I can toss in our winter accessories so we don’t loose anything!  That money was the best money we have spent in awhile because the Mudroom is a room we use daily and we no longer fight!  (Of course there are other things we can now fight about, but it is one less topic!)