Closet Space Maxed Out: What To Do?

My two closets, large and small are completely full. I have utilized every inch of hanger space and have stacked lots of clothes on the top shelf and on the closet floor also. I suppose I could fold and stack a few more items (sweaters and jeans) on the top shelves and the floor, but I can't really hang shirts due to lack of space.

My drawer is also completely full. It's really a headache to air dry clothes now, which I like to do, to avoid the dryer.

Questions:

1. What are my options to create additional storage space?

2. I've scrunched my shirts together very tightly. Can this damage collars of my shirts?

PS: I've already sold and/or given away a fair amount of stuff already, but I'm still at max.

1) Buy less. I have this problem and simply re-think my spending. Why buy a shirt that looks like the other 5 sitting at home? Just because it's a good deal doesn't mean you need to buy it, in my humble opinion.

2) Keep at getting rid of what you don't wear and you can't see yourself wearing it anytime soon. I can see you keeping one good tux for a formal occasion but if you have some wild shirt sitting around you can't bring yourself to wear in public, get it out of there.

My two cents.

Here is a thread in which I asked a similar question: http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=43148 I ended up acquiring (cheaply!) a display rack from a store that was closing, but such luck can't be counted upon.

If you haven't worn it in six months and it isn't a tuxedo; get rid of it.

Originally Posted by 2sweet

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My two closets, large and small are completely full. I have utilized every inch of hanger space and have stacked lots of clothes on the top shelf and on the closet floor also. I suppose I could fold and stack a few more items (sweaters and jeans) on the top shelves and the floor, but I can't really hang shirts due to lack of space.

My drawer is also completely full. It's really a headache to air dry clothes now, which I like to do, to avoid the dryer.

Questions:

1. What are my options to create additional storage space?

2. I've scrunched my shirts together very tightly. Can this damage collars of my shirts?

PS: I've already sold and/or given away a fair amount of stuff already, but I'm still at max.


What a coincidence! I have the same problem. What I do is fold my shirts like 40 business shirts and 30 casual shirts and stack on top of one another. Lightly. So they dont crease. I figure I can double the number of shirts given my stacking.

But that does not solve my problems. My business pants are still hanging in the living room, my jeans hang on my clothes rack or are folded on my table. Not to mention my pants are folded on the spare couch.

I got no space to put a new wardrobe or closet in my room. My cupboards are filled to the max with other boxes. I may have to toss my clothes into empty luggages in the house.
Ebay beckons & I really need to cut down or give old clothes away. And I am moving to a smaller place!

Could you maybe put seasonal clothing in storage? During the warmer months I usually compress most of my sweaters and coats (except for a couple just in case) in those vacuum seal bags and then in a plastic bin. Same thing during the winter, I store away most of my shorts, summer tanks/t-shirts, etc.

Originally Posted by Yaz

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Could you maybe put seasonal clothing in storage? During the warmer months I usually compress most of my sweaters and coats (except for a couple just in case) in those vacuum seal bags and then in a plastic bin. Same thing during the winter, I store away most of my shorts, summer tanks/t-shirts, etc.

I dont have seasonal clothes. All are just clothes. Like work shirts/pants and Ts and jeans and casual shirts/pants.

Originally Posted by Max

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If you haven't worn it in six months and it isn't a tuxedo; get rid of it.

+1, you can't seriously wear two complete closets worth of clothes on a regular basis, do some spring cleaning and put some of your stuff on the buy/sell forum to make some money back.

i've read statistically that one wears 20 per cent of one's clothing 80 per cent of the time so there is likely a lot of clothing that you can purge, but you have to be brutal and just get rid of stuff you don't wear

There's some good points here. I think I'll put some stuff in storage (air tight bags) especially seasonal stuff like my t shirts.