Fall is in the air finally! I love this time of year, my senses come alive with the color changes, the glowing pumpkins, the hot ciders and everything else. It is also a good time of year to work on your wardrobe! Here are a few tips to organize your closets

1. Hang all hangers backwards.
Sounds strange I know, but bear with me. When you pull something out to wear it, the hanger gets turned around and hung the usual way. At the end of the season it is easy to see what you did not wear; anything that is still on a backwards hanger! This way you can purge quickly as you prepare to change your closet for the next season.
2. Use different color hangers for clothes you want to wear a 2nd time. Many of our clothes are dry clean only so we tend to wear them a couple of times before they go back to the cleaners. Sometimes it is difficult to determine if this is a second wear or not. When hanging up something you have worn once already, use a different color hanger to indicate that you have one more wear before it goes in the dry cleaning bag. Speaking of dry cleaning….
3. Install a hook in the closet or behind the bedroom door to hang your dry cleaning bag.
This keeps the clothes from being piled in a corner or on a chair. When the bag is full, then it’s time to go to the dry cleaners.
4. Use multi hangers to create space.
There are some really cool hanger products on the market today. For example, one hanger can hold 5 skirts or 5 shirts, there are innovative pants hangers out there as well. Another tool that might help increase your closet space, short of a complete closet system, is a second bar. These are bars that hang, from the existing closet bar, down lower to hold your pant hangers beneath your shirts.
5. Use baskets on closet shelves for bulky sweaters and sweatshirts.
Our fall and winter wardrobes are a bit bulkier, so use the top of your closet to hold baskets to hold the bulky, less frequently worn items. Of course, at the end of the season if you have never worn the item, you should donate it. There are also shelf dividers. When positioned between stacks of clothing on your closet shelf, the dividers help everything to stay in its place, in an organized manner.
That’s all we ever want, right?