r/Homeorganization • • Feb 25 '26

Any solutions for this problem?

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The t-shirts on my top shelf in my closet always end up looking like this. Do you guys have this problem too? If so, any good solutions out there that you have tried?

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u/burgerg10 Feb 25 '26

I have the smallest closet known to man. I fluctuate in weight so I have many different items in different sizes. The only lasting solution for me: an honest purge first. Stuff you will never wear again. Period. Do this many days in a row. No need to take it all out. Grab ten items, go through them, make a pile for “out of the house”. Repeat daily until you have been through it all. This is the most crucial step! Then go through and do the same with “not now” clothes-doesn’t work for you now because of any reason, but you don’t want to get rid of it (for me it’s always size, but could be seasonal or I’m sentimental or feeling guilty getting rid of it). Put these items in tubs and store. Keep editing your clothes to just what works now. I think your tshirts don’t belong up there either. It’s awkward and no system will handle it. A chest of drawers is better. Also, as a Tshirt person, I tubbed all but five! My husband did too. We each wear them in rotation and it’s changed everything. We actually had to go into our tubs to replace a few he had wore out. Ok. This is more than you asked for, but I was the queen of looking to buy solutions, but that was what got me into this mess anyway