Organize your Closet and home with Hooks

Hooks are a great way to keep things organized and make for a quick pick up and clean room.  They also make it easier for children to keep things clean.  If you provide the hooks for them, they will use them!

This post will show you the hooks I have in my home that help keep us keep it clean.  I hope that hooks can help you optimize your space too!

I used to get soooo mad at my children for walking in the door from school and dropping their backpacks and hoodies in the front entry way or in the kitchen on the floor. 

Finally, I saw this hook rack at my friends house and realized it was the answer to that mess!

For a very reasonable price I purchased the hook rack, mounted it to the studs in one of the walls in my toy room and taught my children where their backpacks and hoodies belonged.  They got the "hang" of it really quickly!  Now they walk in the door and walk directly over to the backpack rack and hang up their belongings. 

It also makes for such a convenient spot to keep the jackets so that as we are rushing out the door we can quickly grab something warm and not have to search every hanger in every closet for each child.  We've all got a jacket or sweater--or two--on the backpack and jacket rack. 

Pretty soon we are going to need more than one of these racks because coats for a 7 person family really pile up!

It's also great for hanging hats, purses, totes, and reusable grocery bags.

No more tripping over backpacks and jackets!

It is so handy to have this oven mitt and towel rack mounted to the wall right next to my dishwasher and oven.  When something is hot and needs to come out of the oven I can quickly grab the oven mitt and when I am done with the dishes I have a place to hang my towel.  Fits in any space!  And it's like double using the space.  The oven mitts hang easily behind the towels so they can both hang in the same spot without taking up a lot of space or being an eyesore by "hanging out" too much.

I love to keep my kids' towels handy on hooks on the door.  It seems like I always need to grab a towel quickly when a wet body is ready to get out of the tub.  And I like having towels next to the sink to dry my hands off with but didn't want to have to install a big, round towel ring in each bathroom.  So I just used hooks!

The plastic hooks made by Command that stick to the door or wall with a strong sticky tab have always worked great for me and have held strong.  I mostly use them on doors.  They come in different sizes and are quick and easy to put on.  I've even hung 3 towels on them before and they don't "give way."  Be sure to let them "sit" for 24 hours before hanging anything on them once you've stuck them to the door or wall.  That will insure their strength.

I use these metal hooks inside every closet of my house to make for quick hanging of belts, umbrellas, purses, bags, or jackets.  I use the hardware to install those to make sure they are good and strong to hold significant weight.

These handy hooks can hold just about anything.  We use them to hold robes, towels, purses, scarfs, jackets, purses.  They can even hold clothes on hangers so you can organize your outfit for the morning and hang it on the bathroom door so that after you shower your clothes are neatly hung and ready for you to wear.

I admit; sometimes some of my hook go unused.  But it's good to have them on the door and all around just in case we need a quick place to hang something.  Over-the-door hooks are especially easy to set up, easy to remove, and don't scar the door or paint.  No nailing or screwing needed.

Over-the-door hooks are also great for hanging seasonal decorations, such as wreaths.  Just hand the hook the opposite way so that the hook is facing out and you don't have to scar your beautiful door with a nail hole.

I found this coat hook at a cute little consignment shop and fell in love with it's design.  We have it mounted to the studs in a wall in our bedroom, next to our closet, and it is super handy for handing our jackets, sweaters, scarfs and robes on. That way, our closet isn't as full with the bulky items and I can grab a sweater super fast or hang one up faster than I could by using a hanger in the closet.

The hooks on this particular system swivel and are not stationary, so if you have a thicker coat it can be pushed over and not take up the space of the item next to it.  My sister bought one just like it that she uses in the bathroom just off of her pool for all her pool towels.  See a hook; be inspired by it!

Stylish and functional!

They are inexpensive, easy to install and serve so many different purposes.  They make our clean-up quick and easy!

I need my hooks so much that when we moved it was one of the first things I had to do: hang my hooks.  I felt lost without having a place to hang my purse and without a towel "hanging around" waiting for me to dry my hands on! 

Invest a little money in organizing your home with HOOKS!

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