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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Kept 18 pair…got rid of 4. I think I should slim it down some more…still, feels good to get rid of the ones I did.
I go barefoot as much as possible, and wear minimalist shoes when it’s required (living in Northern New England, it’s required A LOT), but I had been keeping a lot of ‘just in case’ pairs of shoes. I am happy to report that I’ve scaled it down to 4 ‘just in case’ pairs and the closet looks so much neater for it.
done (=
Done.
Day 11 done!!!!
Done. I needed this push to actually throw away the old shoes after I had purchased new ones to replace them.
I’m all done! 🙂
Very organized! Organized by color and style. Need some different colors though!
I ALWAYS have more shoes I can buy….but getting the one so have organized, and yes I admit that I had some not so fashionable shoes in my closet. But no more.
I loved this one. I had several pairs of shoes hidden in the back of the closet that I never wear anymore. I don’t have a ton of does, but got rid of at least 6 pairs. Feels wonderful and it wasn’t hard at all. Bring on day 12. This is great.
This has been done recently, but I still found two pairs of shoes that I know I will not wear, so now in car for op shop.
done
Done and easy!! did this a few months ago.
My shoes weren’t in too bad a state, but it was good to make sure they were all tidy.
Such a good idea. I did this this weekend, putting away boots and taking out sandals. Hope to wear them soon Thanks,
done a couple of months ago…so today was easy!
Done.
done!
Done, but I was only able to throw out one pair. I wear all the rest, except a few I hate but need for a recurring work event. (To be fair, I did do a lot of this one when I moved too.) But I have a better idea of where I stand now and put two of my best pairs aside for repair. I will probably revisit this one eventually, but I’m happy with what I did for now.
I did the shoes last week when I did the closet. I kkep my shoe collection pretty lean and simple already. But I will try looking at my clthes to see if I could use some new shoes for spring