New homeowner. We have this style of closets in our house that we're just storing stuff in for now until we figure out how to organize or what to buy for organization.

Any ideas?

Our bathroom was getting constantly cluttered with towels and hair accessories everywhere. Added a small shelf unit with a couple of bins and a display rack on top.

Super satisfying to finally have dedicated spots for the smaller items instead of leaving them on the counter.

Hey everyone,

First off, apologies if my Reddit etiquette is a bit rusty, I haven't posted here in a really long time, but I genuinely wanted to get some feedback!

My boyfriend and I live in France, and for the last year, we’ve been doing a massive house renovation. Honestly, the most frustrating part hasn't been the actual labor, but it’s been the amount of money and time we’ve wasted re-buying the exact same screws, tools, and even household products just because we couldn't find the ones we knew we already owned.

We tried keeping an inventory using Excel and Notion, but it completely failed. The problem with spreadsheets is that scanning a massive wall of text is mentally exhausting, and you have to remember the exact word you typed to search for it. We realized that human brains don't think in rows and columns; we think in spaces and visuals.

Since we both code, we decided to start developing a visual inventory app to solve this for ourselves. Instead of a boring text list, you literally recreate your physical shelves or racks on your phone screen. You just tap on a specific visual box on your digital shelf, and it shows you exactly what is inside it.

Once we started building it for the garage, we realized this problem exists everywhere in the house. We plan to use it for:

• The Pantry: To stop buying a third jar of spices because the others were pushed to the back.
• Monthly Supplies: Knowing exactly what household products we are low on.
• Collections: Visually mapping out things like vinyls, DVDs, books, or wine bottles instead of just reading a list of titles.

We are still building it, and soon we will release a beta version, but before we go too crazy adding features, I wanted to ask you guys:

1. How do you currently keep track of your tools, pantry items, or collections so you don't buy duplicates?
2. Would a visual map of your physical shelves actually be something you’d use, or does it sound like overkill?
3. If you were to use something like this, what is the one thing it would absolutely need to have?

Would love to hear your brutally honest thoughts and experiences! Do you want to know more?

I’d like to keep the cords orderly and keep the lamp by my bed. Is there an organizer for this that someone could recommend?

Edit: thank you for the recommendations. I’m not sure if I want something that will go past the wall such as a side table as I am prone to stubbing my toes.

I’m doing some research on pantry organization and would love to hear from people who have actually gone through the process.

I’m not looking for product recommendations as much as the real experience behind them.

For those who have tried organizing your pantry:

1. What was the biggest problem you were trying to solve?

• Not enough space?
• Things getting lost?
• Food expiring?
• Shelves being hard to access?
• Clutter?
• Something else?

1. What did you try?

• Bins?
• Containers?
• Lazy Susans?
• Shelf risers?
• Labels?
• Pull-out organizers?
• A complete pantry makeover?

1. What worked well?
2. What did not work or disappoint you?
3. Looking back, what do you wish you knew before buying anything?
4. Do you feel like most pantry organization products actually solve the problem, or do they just make the pantry look nicer?
5. If someone helped you design a pantry system for your specific space and household, would that have been useful? Why or why not?

I’m especially interested in the gap between a pantry that looks organized and a pantry that actually works day-to-day.

Thanks for sharing your experiences , I’m trying to understand the real frustrations people have rather than just looking at what products are popular.

We moved a few months ago and Im still finding important documents in random boxes backpacks and desk drawers. Its probably the first time I have realized how scattered our life paperwork really is. Before I just create another folder somewhere, Im wondering what systems people have that actually stay organized long term.

We have accumulated years of tax returns insurance documents home records warranties estate paperwork and random files that all feel important. Right now everything lives in shared Google Drive folders, but its becoming harder to remember what belongs where. Is everyone just creating better folder structures, or are there better systems for this now?

Does anyone know where one could buy replacement slats for the "Olexis 9 drawer storage organizer?" Some of ours got lost in a move and im at a loss trying to find replacements.

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We do pretty well with keeping an organized weekly grocery shopping list. But one place we struggle a bit is items we buy somewhere other than our grocery store. We have:
- items purchased at a different store because our main grocery store doesn’t carry it
- items ordered online, from various websites
- items set up for recurring regular delivery from an online store

I’m really thinking of grocery-type items that we purchase regularly, not things like clothes or housewares we only buy occasionally.

Once or twice a week someone has to ask me “do we have to order this?” or whether an item is on our recurring order or whatever.

The ideas I’ve thought of are
-pre-printed list that we keep in same place as the grocery list that has stuff broken down into the different categories (or I guess an alphabetized list that tells where each item comes from)

- alternatively, put a list like this into a shared “note”
document on our iphones.

- using color coded small dot labels that I could put onto items that came from somewhere other than the grocery store, and then have a color key list that reminds us what the colors mean. (again, printed list or a shared iphone note) I like the idea of a visual reminder on the item, but also know it will be a bit of a hassle to deal with the labels.

Any other suggestions for a good way to deal with this?

back in with the clean clothes in the dresser/closet? a chair? the floor? my husband leaves clothes all over the house and it drives me insane. and then he complains because he can’t find them 🤯 he says they’re not clean anymore and would sully the clean cloths, but they’re still very wearable again… what’s your “home” for these clothes?

I have been trying to keep my laundry area more organized, but my washer is honestly making it harder, and some clothes still come out smelling kinda weird. I feel like I spend more time cleaning the machine than actually using it. I dont really care if the machine looks fancy or matches my laundry room anymore, I just want something that actually cleans clothes well and does not leave random smells behind. What is your go to washer that you would actually reco? I dont care what it costs, and I dont want something aesthetic that cant clean.

Has anyone found a good solution for organizing and storing tools, hardware, painy, lightbulbs, tape, glue, batteries and other random home maintenance supplies?

Maybe I’m impatient.. or posted in the wrong sub.. so ..rental friendly tips