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Are you still looking at your winter gear in the middle of summer? It’s pretty annoying going through your closet and tripping over fallen scarves and mittens. If you are wondering how to organize gloves and hats and other winter gear, here are some ideas!

• Try door shoe organizers. For something invented for such a specific purpose, door shoe organizers are amazingly helpful for sorting other things. A lot of winter supplies are small and can easily fit inside the pouches. They are perfect for ski supplies like sunglasses and goggles, gloves, hand-warmers, hats, and much, much more. Just hang it on the inside of a closet door like you normally would for shoes, and you can keep all this stuff out of your way when you don’t need it—and readily available when you do.

• Thrift items you do not actually need. I don’t know about you, but I own about four pairs of winter gloves. How many of those do I actually wear? Probably one or two. And what about scarves? It is easy to accumulate those by the dozen. Most people really only need one or two winter coats as well. If you have more gloves, hats, mittens, boots, and scarves than you can possibly need, donate the excess items or give them to friends who might want them. The fewer of these items you have, the easier it will be to organize your winter boots, clothes, and other gear.

• Buy a set of plastic storage containers you can use for each type of item. If you do not have a huge quantity of winter items to store, you might be able to get away with just one large bin—or perhaps a bin for each family member. If you have a lot of items, you might need more bins, and perhaps smaller bins for different types of winter supplies.

• What is great about the bin system is that it is equally useful in the winter and the summer. During summer, you can pack all your winter gear into plastic bins with lids, close them, and store them in your attic, basement, or somewhere else out of the way. When winter rolls back around, you can just go and get the bins again and put them in your mudroom or somewhere else convenient. Take off the lids, and you will have easy access to your winter gear without it cluttering your closet. Then when the year starts warming up again, you can put the bins back away. This system makes it so easy!

Winter gear can be tough to organize because there are so many small items involved, and you really do not need them the rest of the year, when they typically just get in your way. But with a system of plastic bins and a door shoe organizer, you can keep winter gear sorted. It will be out of your way in the summer, and easy to access during the winter!