Welcome to the 30-Day Organize-athon!
In today’s 5 minutes we’re going to express-organize your shoes.
We want clarity, freedom, and order. Now let’s create them!
Day 11: Organize Your Shoes
Step 1: Get a large bag. Quickly scanning your footwear, throw into the bag any shoes or boots that:
- Are tatty, broken, or in poor condition
- Are tragically out of style
- Are ill-fitting or uncomfortable
- Don’t go with your clothes, taste, or lifestyle.
Step 2: Do a second scan for anything that needs repair. If you know you’ll never get around to the repair, then pop these items straight into your bag. Otherwise, put them aside for later attention.
Step 3: Put your bag by the door or take it straight out to the car. (Really good stuff should go to charity, but let the rest go into the trash.)
Step 4: Do a quick tidy of your remaining shoes and boots.
And you’re done!
Got an Extra 5 Minutes?
- Look over the outfits in your closet. Would particular items of footwear help you get more out of your wardrobe? For example, for girls:
– Do you have several evening outfits but no good evening shoes?
– Could you get more looks from your jeans if had boots to tuck your jeans into?
– Would platform heels allow you to dress up existing outfits?
– Would ballet flats allow you to dress down existing outfits?
For guys:
– Would some black or brown lace-up shoes look better for work?
– Sorry guys – I’m out.
- Add the shoes you need to your clothes shopping list.
As if you needed an excuse to go shoe shopping!
The 30-Day Organize-athon Mantra
Move fast. Don’t overthink. Let it go!
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See you tomorrow!
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Done!
Done! I am so not a shoe-a-olic, thus today was easy peasy!!
done
Ok. this one I had to think about. so it took more than 5 mins.
Done, finally. Internet was down since Thursday am. Now it works on Monday. Wonderful.
This was a great job that really needed doing. Thank you
Complete
Very easy. I don’t have a lot of extra shoes but there were a couple I decided I needed to replace.
I just did this a couple weeks ago & I STILL found more pairs for the garage sale!!! Day # 11-Done!
Dome
that was kind of painful getting rid of some, but the closet is much better now and i can see most all my shoes!
Done! We don’t have a lot of shoes that aren’t worn but I managed to straighten them up and throw out 2 pairs 🙂
Ok, so I did go ahead and do this again, even though we’d just done it a week or two ago. Didn’t toss anything out, but I did straighten things up. 🙂
Done!
Done and I brought my favorites to the front!
im a shoe in for this one
done
I hate shoe shopping, so I never have too many lying around. Got rid of one pair of sandals past redemption, and then I was done.
That one was easy! DONE 😀
Easy, did this in February, but I wanted to do something, so I took everything out and vacuumed the floor of the closet.
Today’s mission wasn’t too tough because I’d recently gone through and ‘purged’ my shoes. My problem is that I tend to kick my shoes off and somewhere in the vicinity of the closet….not always in. So they end up a jumbled mess. Today I spent my 5 minutes pairing them up and putting them where they belong. I also moved my close-toed shoes to the back and my sandals to the front. It was 80 degrees yesterday! 🙂