| Summer can be a great time to reorganize and | | | | towels, practice clothes and uniforms. The third |
| get things together in your home. Summer is | | | | one can be used for soccer pads, bike helmets, |
| sometimes overlooked when it comes to home | | | | snorkels and diving masks. You may end up |
| storage. There is a coat closet that is generally | | | | hanging a net from the ceiling of your garage for |
| reserved for winter. You can really take | | | | inflated pool toys, but the coat closet is ideal for |
| advantage of this space and be the organized | | | | smaller items that will be used again. |
| envy of all your friends. | | | | Hooks are a blessing when it comes to storing |
| This holds especially true if you have school-aged | | | | beach bags, purses and sports duffel bags. You |
| children. Kids have a lot of summer activities and | | | | may even decide to hang a shelf with a cubby |
| parents know that activities equal stuff. Stuff can | | | | for each kid's bag. This can be removable for |
| pile up in every corner of your home. It can | | | | when you are ready to hang those long winter |
| overfill a child's closet and over run toy boxes. | | | | coats again. Simply screw a small board on each |
| Garages can get piled high with inner tubes, sports | | | | wall of the closet making sure that they are level |
| equipment and other summer gear. Enough with | | | | with each other. Then simply place a board on top |
| the mess already! Parents have historically had a | | | | for an eye-level storage space that can easily be |
| hard time keeping their lives and homes in order | | | | used by the whole family. Here you can also place |
| during this busy time of year. | | | | baskets, bins or buckets for each family member. |
| During the school year your child probably only | | | | Place useful items such as sunscreen, hats and |
| comes home with a book bag or backpack to | | | | sunglasses in the bins. |
| throw in the closet. This makes it fairly easy to | | | | Another clever idea is to make use of the hanging |
| manage the amount of junk that can pile up in | | | | rod at the top of the closet. Get some sturdy |
| the house. During summer swim outings and | | | | wooden hangers and use this area for easily |
| sports games and practices, the amount of stuff | | | | accessible beach towels and swim suit cover-ups. |
| that ends up in your living room can be staggering. | | | | No more tearing through the linen closet for that |
| Consider transforming that winter coat closet into | | | | beach towel at the bottom of the stack! You can |
| a summer organization paradise. | | | | also hang clean sports uniforms and other items |
| If you have room place two or three laundry | | | | that you may need on short notice. You can get |
| baskets at the bottom of the closet. One can be | | | | all of those summer items organized and ready to |
| for shoes, flip-flops, sandals, cleats and swim | | | | go with just a few inexpensive touches. |
| shoes. The next one can be for wet swim | | | | |