- [Woman] I cannot stand how they're
all on top of each other.
There's just so much crap on the floor.
(grunts)
Oh (laughs) I cut my carpet.
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- Hey everyone, I'm Chloe and I am stuck at home,
like everyone is.
So, in order to not be a pile of mush on the couch,
I decided maybe I would actually
be productive and start organizing my apartment.
So I live in a studio, so I don't have
the most available space in the world.
Although, I do have two closets, which for a studio,
is pretty legit.
I've recently gone through my clothes and
donated a bunch, so this is mainly
about organizational hacks and tips.
So I searched the inter webs and I found 18,
yes 18, hacks, tips, as to how to make
my small closets look their best.
I think we should look at the closets.
So this is closet numero uno.
(gasps) Home sweet home.
It doesn't look that bad quite honestly.
It's mainly my shoes.
I cannot stand how they're all on top of each other,
and they're underneath here too.
Here we go to closet number two.
(whoops)
It's just kind of full.
It's mainly just down here, like there's
just so much crap on the floor,
And then, I feel like there is a better way to do
what I've done here.
I actually luckily have inbuilt drawers,
but they are a mess.
This is my underwear drawer.
Yep, you're getting a lot of info from me today.
So everything I bought for these hacks,
you can buy on Amazon.
I would usually do more price comparisons,
but, considering the situation in the world right now,
I don't wanna go out and shop for
non-essential items.
I do though, wanna give a big shout out to all
the delivery drivers that are still working
through all of this.
I also wanna note though, since ordering these items,
I've been seeing some stuff online about maybe
not ordering non-essential stuff from online anymore.
Just because it puts more of a strain
on the delivery drivers.
So, I can't tell you what's essential and what's
non-essential to you, but maybe just
check the recommendations at the time of watching
this video if you want to copy any tips
or tricks that involve shopping.
But let's get this going and I'm gonna
start with my shoe closet, which is this way,
which is why I'm pointing this way.
So the first hack we're gonna utilize
is how to better display your sunglasses.
I love this idea because I don't use
the back of my door at all, and I figured
I could hang up some sunglasses on the back of that door.
So I have some coat hangers that are velvet and pink
which I think are very cute.
And then I also got a couple of hooks,
which you just put sticky stuff on.
I'm slightly embarrassed by the amount
of sunglasses I have.
I'm kind of a little bit obsessed with them to be honest.
And here's one, it looks pretty cool.
The one thing I'm a little worried about
is it might rattle on the door and that's gonna
annoy the (beep) out of me.
Ta-da
One hack down.
I decided to hook it here, because it was
too wobbly having it there.
Hack one, thumbs up.
Another quick hack just using these hooks,
would be if you don't wanna hang sunglasses
on the back of a door, you could hang a bag, for instance.
So that's not gonna get in the way of anything here,
thumbs up to that hack.
The next hack is a shoe hack to hang up sandals.
It involves a metal coat hanger.
I think you just cut here, if this even will work,
Oh my god (grunts)
Oh (laughs) I cut my carpet.
It seems that you just bend it into like
a baby coat hanger here.
This is not gonna look super pretty honestly.
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And then you gotta curl that around.
So it technically works, I just don't think
it's very aesthetically pleasing.
It will get them out the way, cause I can
just hang them up here.
Although, then I get dirt on my clothes.
This hack is a semi-thumbs up.
The next one is a little tough because it doesn't
totally fit with my closet.
So I've tried to find a different way of doing it
that's still the same kind of idea.
And I've come up with this really cute drawer,
(squawks)
So as you can see, the shelf would've hung from here,
and this is in the way.
I have got the drawer which I want to hang
like this but it doesn't work with those either.
So think I'm gonna have to use two coat hangers,
that might work.
It's not the cutest thing in the world
but just hang that and then do the same on this side.
I don't like how this is hanging,
there's way to much space here, this is
not space saving.
All right, I found some old twine and I tied it like so.
This is still not the cutest and it still could
be higher up.
If I really wanted to utilize this space, I could.
(laughs) I don't love it.
This one is a medium again.
This is partly my fault because I couldn't find anything
that would work.
So the next hacks are all about shoes,
which is amazing cause my shoes are a disaster.
First one is to literally just put your shoes
in a big old tote, which would fit down here nicely.
And put them up either this way, or this way,
so that you're not layering them.
The hack says to put a old wine box in here,
but I don't have an old wine box.
All right, I basically just played shoe Tetris,
I think they're pretty easy to get in and out.
Definitely looks a lot nicer than it did.
I've just realized, I now can't get
to these shoes.
But as long as I put ones I don't wear
very often back there I think it will be fine.
So I'd say this hack is a thumbs up.
So next is to utilize these boxes to create
another shelf so I can add another layer
of shoes on top.
This was supposed to go in here.
It does not go, it doesn't stay at all,
so I have eradicated that.
So ignore the fact that they're so flimsy
that they look stupid. (laughs)
Other than that, I mean they are looking neater
than when they're piled on top of each other,
and I have two pairs in here.
So this hack, I'd say is a thumbs up,
I just should've bought more sturdy boxes.
And then the final shoe hack is something
you don't need to buy anything for, you just
have to turn your shoes heel to toe
because apparently that fits more in a row then.
Is this true?
Oh, look at that gap already.
(gasps) Yeah, I fit a whole other pair of shoes in there.
All right I fitted like two more pairs of shoes
in there at least, so pretty cool,
I'd give that a huge thumbs up.
And now my shoe organization is complete.
Does look a lot better.
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Before we move on to the other closet and the drawers
I must get an opinion from someone about this.
Hello!
- Hi Chloe,
- Hi
- How are your 14,000 closet hacks going?
- Yeah it's quite a lot, I have completed
one closet out of two.
My favorite thing is the sunglasses.
- That's really cool, I right now have
all of my sunglasses laid out on my dresser
and it takes up way too much room.
- [Chloe] I guess the main thing I wanted to show you
was how I decided to do my shoes.
I have this tote, the other thing is toe-to-heel
fits more shoes in.
- Well I never knew that, that's actually
a really good hack.
What's cool about all of the hacks that you've done
is that it makes everything very visible,
so you don't lose track of things.
Cause I know I have shoes hidden in weird places
and I forget about them.
- I guess I have to go and do my other closet now
- Well, good luck to you.
- Thanks so much, I'll speak to you soon.
Aww, little Neens I miss her so much.
Okay, so we're gonna do the drawers now,
so I've put all my underwear into piles.
I have drawer dividers, you can actually make your own
out of cardboard but to be perfectly honest
I already had these from a long time ago,
and I wasn't about to make a whole bunch
of dividers cause it just sounded like a lot of effort.
But you can if you want.
This is all going in my top drawer, and you can
roll your underwear up and put them
in these little bits.
So let's do it.
Oh my God it looks so much better.
I mean they're really shoved in there,
but It just looks so much more put together.
Okay, onto the bras.
So pretty!
I mean it looks way better,
the only thing is it's not really utilizing all
this space here, like up to here.
Luckily there is some room at the back here,
so I have like nipple covers and some extra bra straps.
So I'd definitely give this hack a thumbs up.
So the next two hacks are how to display things
in drawers, the first one is a Marie Kondo technique
and it's to store everything upright,
so you see everything you have.
All right so I haven't folded anything yet but
I just wanted to show you this thing
I just MacGyvered, which I'm pretty impressed about.
I had an old box, I put all my swimsuits in here,
I have sectioned off this part,
so that's good, this is all my workout stuff now.
So in order to store things upright, Marie says
you fold pants in certain way,
so you fold these in half and then to fold
that in half again.
And then again, and then roll them.
And then you're gonna store them up like that.
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Gonna be kind of annoying to take any of these out,
because as soon as you take them out the whole
thing sort of just collapse.
Well that took rather a long time but it is done.
This isn't really part of it, I just put
my sports bras like this cause I wanted
to be able to see them.
So yeah all of my pants are here, all my tops are here.
I think it looks cool and it's easy
to see stuff if you have a very good sense of what you own.
I have a lot of black shirts and they're-
I shouldn't have put them back here.
They're all back here and a few here,
and I'm like well which one's which,
now I'm gonna have to pull them all out.
I'm gonna give it a three quarters up.
So onto my overflowing pajama drawer.
I'm gonna use a different folding technique for this drawer,
and see if I like it better.
I actually only have instructions to fold a t-shirt
but I'm sure I can figure out how to do the pants.
Great shirt I'm sure you'll agree.
So you fold it in half, boom boom.
Then you fold these in.
Now I think you fold this down,
and then over again.
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So all my shirts and tank tops are folded.
I didn't know how to fold shorts and
I'm not even wearing them right now cause
it's too cold, so they're just piled.
All of this, has to fit in there.
I have my three biggest ones left.
I think I'm just gonna have to fold them up
and put them right in the back.
So not exactly how I wanted it to be,
but it's still looks nice.
And I actually probably prefer this technique
over the one above,
so I'm gonna give this a thumbs up.
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All right so the next hack is
how to organize your bed sheets nicely.
I just throw mine up in a cupboard, it is a mess,
so I could really use this one.
Also I was hot, so I threw my hair up, okay.
This is super simple, I just have a duvet cover
and a fitted sheet, do not come at me
about how to fold a fitted sheet, cause I have
no idea and that is not what I'm learning,
and one pillow case and then you just put all of that
into your other pillow case, and done.
Yeah that was super easy, it looks a lot more
put together, thumbs up to this one.
So next we're moving onto my second closet,
which is where I keep most of my clothes.
And we're gonna start with some coat hanger hacks.
This seems like a really simple hack.
For some reason I have a bunch of coat hangers
that don't have the groove here,
so tops like this just slide off.
Easy, easy fix is just to get a giant bag
of rubber bands, no, you literally just
don't need that many at all.
A couple of rubber bands, you just
put it on the ends, and then I will wrap that around,
but I only have one hand with this camera.
Like so, it doesn't fall.
This obviously isn't the most aesthetically pleasing
thing in the world, but it does the job
so I'm gonna give it a thumbs up.
The next hack makes it easier to be able
to slide your clothes, cause obviously I have
barely any gaps between them, which makes it hard
to be able to see what I have.
So this allows all your clothes to be stacked down
in a line, which means you have more room across.
So I'm gonna have to do this on my
going out tops, since I have my laundry bag right here,
and this will get in the way.
So, let's see.
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Oh it's so cute, I love it.
You know what, I could probably fit my t-shirts
right here, let's do that.
These are now looking great.
It also means that I can pull all the stuff that
was all the way back here further out,
so I can actually see it.
Thumbs up for sure.
So I have tank tops, and they take up space.
This is a hack so that you can fit them all onto
one or two coat hangers.
So you got your ring, you got your tank top,
and you just use the straps to hang it onto here,
which is really hard one handed.
There, that's what it's supposed to look like,
and then you'll just (trills)
Look how much space I'm saving this is amazing,
each one of these tank tops would be on
a separate hanger.
Love it.
Definite thumbs up.
Next hack is for hanging up denim shorts,
also using curtain rings.
So it says to fold the shorts with the
zipper in the back, like so.
And you're supposed to grab the two side belt loops,
these don't really have exact sides,
they have sort of more in the back
but I think they'll do,
and then you hang the shower curtain ring through these.
Ta-da.
And then you actually hang this on your coat hanger rod,
not on a coat hanger.
(laughs) They look like they're about to
be sold in a store, they're so organized.
And then I'll use this side of my wardrobe and
I'll put them up here which I can't do
one-handed, the story of this video's life.
And there we have it.
I will say that you should get bigger rings than this,
because I can barely move these on the rod,
I think this is a great idea, just looks-wise
it's really cool, so I'm gonna give it a thumbs up.
So next up we have a way to make this pile
of pants look a bit better.
So these are dividers that can go inbetween here,
and it doesn't, obviously do the most,
but I think it will just keep everything
from falling on top of each other,
like it's kind of doing here.
Well, these very nearly don't fit
I have to like really squish them in.
I don't think my ceiling is very level.
Very nice, if I do say so myself.
It just makes them look a lot more organized.
Thumbs up.
Okay we're onto our last two hacks which is
very exciting because I'm very tired
but I'm excited about this
because it's gonna fix this complete disaster.
So I have out of season clothes that I just stuff
in the bottom of my closet.
But these bags, you can compress the air out of,
so all the clothes are really, really tiny
and you can fit more of them in,
and I'm not gonna be getting them out till summer.
So I have all of my clothes in here,
you got this stuff that you stick together here.
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Now the fun part, you roll.
You get all the air out of it.
Hmm, I may have overfilled this one
to be honest but it's still thinner than it was.
I will put these all in my closet after I've done
the last hack, definitely a space saver
so big thumbs up.
Now onto my last one.
(cheers)
So I truly have an insane number of bags
but I truly use every single one of them
for different things, I'm gonna pack them
in these giant boxes, that I think are for comforters.
And here is one bag of bags.
Much nicer.
I think actually what I'm gonna do is put all my
squishy clothes in my second one and then bags
on top of that, cause I'm not gonna need these for a while.
And...
we are complete.
Last hack was a definite thumbs up.
I was really surprised by how many of these hacks
actually worked really well, and I'm so impressed
that I now actually have an organized closet,
or two!
If you wanna do some practical stuff while you're at home
this is definitely something you can do,
especially the things that don't involve buying stuff.
So, stay safe out there and get organized.
I'm going to bed now, goodnight.
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