Shoe organizers are an easy way to get all your shoes off the closet floor and up into an easy-to-use sleeve. There are many uses for these handy organizers beyond storing shoes. Shoe organizers can also be used as an affordable way to organize many other household items. After the jump, eight suggestions for other uses for the shoe organizer…
1. Store your socks in a shoe organizer. This will not only free up a dresser drawer, it will also make your socks more visible.
2. The pockets of a shoe organizer are the perfect size for many other accessories. Hang one in your closet for storing your jewelry, scarves, scrunchies, and all those other little accessories that don't otherwise have a home in your closet.
3. Keep a shoe organizer in your craft room to keep all of your supplies organized and easily accessible.
4. If you have room in a bathroom closet, use a shoe organizer to hold bath supplies. The pockets would be the perfect solution for stowing a blow dryer and other hair products, make-up, washcloths, and just about anything else you use to keep yourself looking beautiful.
5. Hang a shoe organizer on the back of an office door to help corral office supplies. Use the pockets for extra packs of paper clips and staples. Or label the pockets for stashing your various electronic cords and chargers.
6. In the garage, use a shoe organizer for keeping tools at hand and organized.
7. Hang a shoe organizer in the pantry for storing small foodstuffs and cooking supplies. The pockets would be a perfect fit for those cookie cutters you don't use very often or for the cloth napkins you trot out for company.
8. Shoe Pocket Garden!
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We have one hung on the back of our little coat closet that holds things like small umbrellas, the GPS, transit maps, sunglasses, hats, scarves, sunscreen, etc. It is very handy.
Barbies and/or action figures and accessories
I have two of them hanging on my closet door that I store my nail polish in! They're so handy!
wow someone has a lot of sox! :)
When I lived in NYC, I had one in my "entry" closet. Because I only had one drawer in my kitchen, it held everything that typically goes in your kitchen junk drawer (pens, scissors, notepads, tape)...plus my camera, usb cords, iPod...plus umbrellas, hat, gloves, etc. Got a lot of use out of it!
It's also great in the pantry for water bottles, travel mugs, sippy cups and baby bottles!
Cans of spray paint.
I lived in an old historic flat that had no storage in the bathroom. I used one on the back of the bathroom door to organized toiletries, make-up, hair products, etc
We have one on our linen closet door and it is our medicine cabinet it has clear pockets so its easy to see the band-aids, nail polish remover and the cold medicine
Like Parimosa, we use one in our linen closet to store medicine and first-aid.
http://www.atypicaltypea.com/2010/11/19/shoe-hanger-as-medicine-cabinet/
I have another idea, like pot. Well, the idea is not mine.
http://jardindecora.blogspot.com/2010/11/organizador-de-plantas.html
I have no bedside table, so I trapped two rows between the mattress and the boxspring to hold my glasses while I sleep and all other stuff you usually find in a bedside table!
Mine hangs inside wardrobe and holds my tights - very handy
I use mine for tights too, rackers. It's the best thing.
Anyone has any ideas on how to organize scarves? I think the shoe pockets would be too small - but something with just slightly larger sections would do the trick!
Help! :-)
We have ours in our utility closet to hold first aid supplies, medicines, sunscreen, etc.
I hung one on the inside door of my husband's home server closet for his little screwdrivers, wrenches, cords, and other computer doodads he leaves strewn all over the house.
@olya I have a towel rack on the inside wall of my closet that I hang scarves from. It uses space that would otherwise be unused and it works pretty well.
Miguel's idea of using as an herb planter is genius!
I'm drilling holes in old plastic glasses to place as containers in the pockets....gracias, gracias.
terry
Can't remember where - but a while back I saw a great pic of a shoe organizer hanging on a fence to wrangle kids toys in the backyard. It was mostly accessories for water and sand tables and stuff like sidewalk chalk. It was great because it was water resistant, more organized than a big bin, and the kids could see everything so they remembered what the had.
In the coat closet for binoculars, umbrellas, hats & mittens, flashlights, etc. In baby's room for pacifiers & clips, little socks and hats, little shoes, burp cloths, etc. In child's room for flash cards, toy cars, figures, other small toys. In my laundry room for lint brushes, spare buttons, sewing kit, and other laundry supplies.
Yep, we use these for everything too. I particularly like the one that hangs on the back of the door in our laundry room, which is the door from which we typically leave the house. Right now that one holds our mittens, scarves and hats. At the end of the season that gets rolled up and boxed, and another one comes out to store sunglasses, sunscreen, chapsticks, bug spray, flip flops, squirt guns... you know. Summer stuff that needs to be by the door. And we've used one as a medicine cabinet in our linen closet too. Very very handy.
I use a tie rack to hold all my scarfs, but since they are nice and colorful, they are also the decoration that is on the outside of my closet door. I just put the tie rack on an over the door holder.
I use two shoe organizers for shoes, but I hung them directly on the wall since I don't have enough door space. For these, I bought the pretty tan colors. I use the clear plastic one in the front closet to hold hats and gloves, etc. This way my boys can get their own stuff.
When I have a guestroom I plan to hang one inside the closet, and use it to store things like mini shampoos, guide books to my city, soaps, eye masks, etc.