Hi everyone. I’m Alejandra from Alejandra.tv and in this video, I’m going to show you
how to organize your closets with a tiny budget in mind.
But first if you are looking to start getting organized for the very first time, you can
check out my free video series on my website Alejandra.tv. There’s a link below.
OK. So it’s important to have an organized closet because it makes getting dressed in
the morning a lot easier when you can find what you’re looking for and then everything
has a home to be put away in the evening when you’re putting your clothes away.
If you have an organizing system, you can maximize your space if you have a small closet
and your stuff is – your clothes are not going to be wrinkled if they’re just – if
they’re hanging or folded properly. So I’m going to show you exactly how I’ve organized
my entire closet with a small budget in mind.
So let’s start up here. So at the very top of the closet, I wanted to find bigger organizing
bins for all of my sweaters and my purses. But I couldn’t find that. I mean you can
find them but I was looking for all of my organizing products at the dollar stores.
I couldn’t find them. So I just used all the duffel bags I had.
So inside this duffel bag, I have all my sweaters. Inside this one, I have all my purses. When
I need to use a duffel bag, I will just take everything out and then just put it back when
it’s done.
So the one thing I didn’t like about this is that it’s not clear, so you can’t see
what’s inside. So I added a 19-cent shelf label just like this that says “sweaters,”
“purses,” and that’s obviously my travel cosmetics. Then down here, this is where I
have all of my travel bags, just like smaller bags and stuff. So just reused and worked
with what I had.
Over here, I have nine shoeboxes that I got from the dollar store and some of them have
two pairs of shoes per box. Some of them are one pair. But you can add like a picture of
a shoe on the front if you want or you can label them if it’s kind of dark and you
can’t see what is what. I feel like I can see what’s what. So that works for now.
All right. In all of the drawers here, I’m excited to share what I did here. So this
one has – I found all of these drawer organizers. They were a dollar each from the dollar store
and there are seven here. I feel like they’re just like made for this drawer. So this is
what one of them looks like. It’s made out of a canvass and I feel like they’re just
like the perfect type of the drawer and they don’t slide because they fit the drawer
so nicely. They come in three sizes. There’s like a small one, medium, large, and I think
there’s the really wide one.
But anyway, I have my heavy sweatpants, my lighter sweatpants, my nightgowns, long sleeves,
T-shirts, leggings and leggings here. I feel like these bins, like they kind of act as
dividers in the drawer to create little compartments. I feel like it’s easier to put your stuff
away and find what you’re looking for when every drawer, especially big ones like this,
have different compartments.
OK. So that is that one and then I just label the outside with what is inside the drawer.
OK. So down here, I have all of my accessories, so belts, scarves. Here are clutches and bags.
Here are hats. Here are bracelets, stuff for maintaining clothes. This is where I put all
like the little button bags, just right here.
Then in this one here, we just have – this is kind of like more – this is like a scented
spray for making your drawers smell nice. Anyway, these things right here, these little
organizers, they’re actually desk organizers and they come two to a dollar and I thought
they were great for accessories. So just because it’s made for a desk doesn’t mean you
have to only use it in a desk.
Then same thing with these, these are dish pants that go in the kitchen. Just because
it goes in the kitchen doesn’t mean it can’t go in your drawers in your closet.
In the very bottom of the drawer, there’s a shelf liner. So I have the shelf liner but
you can get shelf liner at the dollar store for a dollar. All right. So that is that drawer.
All right. This is my bras and underwear and socks drawer. So here I just found these letter
trays. They were in the – I think they were in the office with the school supplies section
and they’re made for like file folders but just because they’re for the office doesn’t
mean they can’t be used here.
They do have the ventilation here. So if you put like a T-shirt down, you might get the
imprint of these squares in your T-shirt. But I felt like it was fine to use for socks
and underwear and bras and stuff.
So yeah, three categories here and then I used these ice cube trays for all of my smaller
jewelry, like charms, bracelets, small necklaces and stuff. The ice cube trays are two for
a dollar at the dollar store.
OK. So then the next drawer is all of my exercise stuff. Same thing, I have these green organizers
because they just fit perfectly inside here. I feel like these organizers, like they don’t
look – they look better when they’re – when you only see the tops of them as opposed to
seeing like the sides of them. So inside of a drawer when you only see the top, it’s
nice.
OK. Yeah. So there are yoga pants. There are tank tops, sports bras, T-shirts. These are
all accessories for working out and then these are shorts.
OK. So this drawer here has all my tank tops and shorts just like this. Again, there are
seven different organizers here, shorts, shorts, skirts, all the tank tops. What I did here,
so you can see that all the tank tops are filed, meaning they’re like filed like this.
I can just pull one up like that.
If you notice, all the other drawers, like the exercise drawer and the pajamas one above,
everything is piled instead. It’s because when I exercise or when I put on my pajamas,
I don’t really – like normally I just grab whatever is on top. I don’t normally
care when I go to the gym as opposed to a tank top. I always look for a certain tank
top when I’m getting dressed.
So when you file them, you can instantly see everything you have right here. As opposed
to piling, you normally only see what’s on top. So – and it’s harder to file.
That’s why like if it was easier to file, I would file everything. But it’s just so
much easier to pile. So that’s why these are piled and these are filed.
OK. So yeah, this is the tank top drawer and then down here I have all of my pants and
jeans and they’re just folded over once just like this and then just stack on top
of each other just like that.
So let me show you the other side of my closet. OK. So on this side of the closet is where
I have all of my hanging clothes. So I organize all my hanging clothes by type and then by
color. So all the long sleeves together, all the dresses together, all the short sleeves,
sleeveless together and then once it’s organized by type, then I do it by color in rainbow
order.
I found these hangers at the dollar store. They were six for a dollar. There are actually
two types of hangers and I didn’t realize until I got home. But there’s this one right
here and then there’s this one. The only difference is really this little hook right
here. So there’s this kind and there’s this kind. I like this kind better because
when you’re hanging strappy shirts, like with the straps inside, you feel like they
would stay better on this one as opposed to this one.
So if I was going to do this all over again, I would make sure to get the hangers with
this little hook, if I was buying hangers at the dollar store. And as you can see here,
all of my clothes, like nothing is too like overstuffed in the closet.
Like it’s not like so tight like that which means you have to really struggle to pull
something out or put something back. Everything has enough breathing space which means it’s
just – it’s easier to find exactly what you’re looking for.
So now let me show you how I’m storing all my necklaces. OK. So I found these hooks at
the dollar store also. They’re a dollar each and they’re in the closet section.
So I was thinking, “Oh, these are perfect for hanging necklaces or for hanging other
things around the house.”
But for this closet, I would totally hang them on the sides right here of the closet
where I have that pull-out necklace holder. I’ve shown that before. It’s from IKEA.
It’s not a dollar but if I didn’t have those, I would hang these there. I didn’t
hang them because we’re about to move. I didn’t want to put holes in the walls.
But yeah, this is just an easy way to find exactly what you’re looking for. Necklaces
are out of the way and they’re a dollar. So now let me show you how I’ve organized
all of my scarves and maximized my vertical space on the door.
When I was organizing my closet, I tried finding vacuum bags and I found this one at the dollar
store. It’s a dollar per bag and I tried it for all of my off-season – like my beach
gear, like bathing suits and wraps and stuff.
When I used the vacuum to suck the air out, all the air came out and it really collapsed
to like a smaller size. But then when I went to put the top on, all the air came back in.
So I don’t know if this is defective or not. But one way you can save space, maximize
space in your closet is to use vacuum bags for all of your off-season clothes. So now,
I’m just going to put this at the very top of my closet or you can put this in a different
closet if you – if there’s no room in your current closet. But I just wanted to
show another option of what you can do, yeah, inside your closet.
OK. So over here is where I have all of my scarves. So I put them on the door to maximize
my vertical space here and I just found these over the door hooks from the dollar store.
They’re a dollar each. They have two hooks each. So it can store eight scarves here plus
more room. But these are the best hooks from the dollar store. There are three different
types of hooks. I’ve tried them all. This is the best fit. They just fit the tightest
over the door. But yeah, they look great there and they’re out of the way.
So the total cost of organizing my closet on a small budget was $59. So the entire space
was under $60 and that includes $16 worth of hangers. So if you don’t need hangers,
you can take $59 minus $16 to get the cost of organizing the closet.
But anyway, I hope this video has inspired you to organize your closet with whatever
budget you have. Get creative. Shop around and you can organize the space with any budget
that you have.
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