HOW TO ORGANIZE T-SHIRTS

If your dressers and closets are overflowing or jumbled, you’re likely wasting so much time looking for things and also damaging your clothes as they are being jammed and snagged in your dressers and closets. So, we continue my series on clothing organization. I covered dress organization in my previous post. Here I continue with the best ways to properly organize your t-shirts with folding and storage solutions for everyone from the minimalist to the collector. And, did you know, you can also organize your spaces according to your organizing style? You can find out what your organizing style is here.

Before organizing your t-shirts, you must purge the shirts that you do not like and no longer use. Be ruthless and purge the excess so you can more easily store what you do need and use.

In my freebie library here, I include guides which help walk you through the organizing process and help you decide what to purge and keep. I also include my declutter and organizing challenge calendars and guides to help direct you through each area of your home. These guides ensure you get through every nook and cranny and finally get to the other side of clutter … an organized and functional space!

In this post, we focus on how to organize your t-shirts. Below, I share ideas on how to organize your shirts with different types of organizing solutions that will work for your organizing styles and spaces.

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T-Shirt Organization

Before you start organizing your t-shirts, I highly suggest editing your collection. You don’t want to purchase a bunch of organizing solutions to contain t-shirts you’re not even going to wear. I share my clothing quantities to keep guidelines in my freebie library here. My guide helps you to determine how many of each clothing item to keep based on your lifestyle and how often you are able to do laundry.

Hanging vs Folding

I don’t know about you, but I would rather avoid ironing my clothes as much as possible. So, I like to hang all clothing I wear out of the house and fold clothing I only wear at home. That means that my basic tees that I style in different ways through tucking and knots at the waist, etc., are hung up in my closet:

And, my tees which I only wear at home are folded in my drawer:

By the way, with this minimal wardrobe, I am able to make around 240 outfits. I share tips for how to keep your closets from overflowing, yet always have something to wear, here.

Do You Need a Folding Device?

As you can see in the photo above, I don’t utilize any drawer organizing solutions to organize and contain my clothes. I simply use a compact folding technique here, and in my updated video below, and the filing storage method. All my t-shirts are visible and easy to select at a glance.

I don’t use a clothes folding device like this (found here):

I was actually gifted the original blue folding device when it first came out almost two decades ago (I should have seen that red flag and left that relationship when I received that gift … I mean, who gives you a folding device for Christmas?) I digress … I did use it at first. However, I didn’t use it very much after the first few loads of laundry because I found that it’s one size does not fit all. We all have different sizes of clothing and different sizes of drawers and shelves to store our clothing on. I found that simply folding clothing with different techniques, as shown here, and filing clothes in drawers and piling clothes on shelves help to maximize drawer and shelf space.

If you do decide to use a folding device to help organize your t-shirts, you can use drawer dividers which are set to the width of your t-shirts after they are folded with the device. While the folding device folds your clothes to a larger flat rectangle, you can fold your t-shirts further in half, thirds, or fourths after using the device in order to file them in your drawer between these expandable dividers (found here):

You can also set closet shelf dividers to the width of your t-shirts after they are folded with the folding device (found here):

Closet Storage Solutions

If you don’t have a dresser, you can store your t-shirts on a closet shelf using the closet shelf dividers above. If you need to maximize space above a standard top closet shelf, you can maximize vertical space by setting shelf risers on them (found here):

Whether you use closet shelf dividers or shelf risers on your upper closet shelf, I show how to remove t-shirts from your folded piles without messing up the pile here (you’ll want to watch the video there). There are also organizing solutions available that help to make pulling clothes out from piles on shelves easier (found here) (however, I find them unneccessary if you simply slide one hand underneath the upper t-shirt and hold it up while pulling out the t-shirt underneath):

If you have a lower shelf in your closet, you can utilize bins like these to set t-shirts in by category (found here):

Seasonal Organizing Solutions

If you like to collect t-shirts with logos and designs for seasons and holidays, you can store your out of season tees in bins like these which allow you to see the logos through the window on a closet shelf (found here):

And, under the bed, you can use something like this (found here):

I hope you found some ideas for how to organize your t-shirts for your organizing style and/or the space that you have! In my next post, I share how to organize your dress shirts. Don’t forget to grab my free resources from my freebie library here. Let’s get to the other side of clutter … an organized and functional space!

Happy Organizing!