Today I finished our closet Yay!  Minus some minor set backs.  I had a major migraine come on about 1:00 today and it really beat me down.  I took some medicine and laid down at 3:00 to try to sleep it off.  Woke up at 5:00 and it was worse.  I try not to take my migraine medicine because it usually makes me really nauseous, but I didn't have a choice.  I managed to cook a quick dinner (which almost killed me) and then took my medicine and went back to sleep until 8:00.  The medicine really helped and knocked the migraine out to the point I could get some work done.

:::Closet Before:::


Yes I know...OMG what a mess!!!

So I don't have a ton a money to replace my closet with one of those super swanky closet systems, but I think I made some major improvements.  I switched our closets to our winter clothes which really helped.  It gave me a chance to go through all the clothes and get rid of the stuff we no longer needed.  It also gave me a chance to have a bare closet to get some other stuff organized.  We keep our gun cabinet in the closet, and it takes up a nice amount of space.  I like it in the closet because it just doesn't match our furniture in any room so if your wondering what that big green thing is, it's our gun cabinet :)  (duh we live in the south)

:::Closet Now:::

 I added all these extra large storage bins at the top of the closet.  They are hard to find in this size 14x14x14, but I ordered them online from Home Depot (through Ebates of course).  I also rearranged my shoe racks and organized those which gave me extra hanging space on the bottom left of my side of the closet.  I moved the blue cart in the corner, it was on the wall to the left of this picture  this will give me the space to put a 3 bin clothes basket if I would like.  (haven't decided yet)
Here I added 4 normal cubes at the top of the closet (bought at Target).  For some reason they look back in this picture but they are actually blue as well.  At the top of this part of the closet is not as tall so I had to use the smaller cubes.  You can see I kept my 3 cart storage shelves.  They come in handy :)  Also I added another wire shelf (on the right) for Mark's T Shirts (empty at the moment)
Here I just organized Marks shoes.  I put his dress shoes on the top shelf since they don't get worn often.  Plus it is really tight on this side so there was no room for storage cubes.  There was also an old vacuum in the corner taking up space so that is off to goodwill.  I also bought 2 sets of tiered hangers for Marks jeans (wanted to try the out first) they are ok, even though they have the swing out handles it is still hard to get to your pants.  I wont be purchasing any more of them (if that tells you anything)

Here is what it cost me for this organizing project....
3 packages of the large storage cubes (Home Depot) $19.97 each   Total:  $59.51
2 packages of the medium storage cubes (Target)   $12.99 each       Total:  $25.98
1 pack of tiered pant hangers (Home Depot)           $15.99                Total: $15.99
1 wire hanging shelf             (Home Depot)            $9.99                  Total:   $9.99

Grand Total :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::  $111.47

I guess that's not too bad, for an organized closest.  Sure beats thousands of dollars :)

Well that's it for tonight.  Hopefully tomorrow will be a smooth day with no problems!