Closet Clean-up Before and After

I'm working on getting a little more organized around here these days, like a lot of you.  Putting the Christmas stuff away is a big job these days, and takes quite a few days in a row to get it all done.  But here  was a quick and satisfying organization project that only took an hour or so.

Before:

In the top shelf of our coat closet is where I store most of my candles.  I have fall candles, Christmas candles, spring candles, and summery candles.  I've got a big bin full of my mom's home-made, hand-crafted molded scented candles.  I've got tapers, and pillars, and enough votives and tea lights to line our entire street with luminaries if I wanted to (I've actually done that before!).  There are brand-new candles, and mostly-burned candles.  And everything is a jumbled mess.  The only bright side is that the closet, smells really good, and all the coats that are stored in there smell good too!

After:

I shopped at Michael's (where else) with a big savings coupon (what else) and picked up a variety of these decorative storage boxes.  I got quite a few different sizes, and a few different patterns that all sort of blend together.  I sorted through all the candles, threw away a few, and then stored them all in these decorative boxes.  After about an hour of easy sorting, the top of the closet now looks great and still smells great!

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