Clutter Video Tip: More Hidden Storage- Look Up!

http://www.clutterdiet.com/freetips Get organized with home organizing tips from professional organizers at The Clutter Diet. Get closer to clutter free by squeezing more storage space from your kitchen, closet, garage, or pantry. In this video Lorie Marrero shows how you can utilize the space above your cabinets for extra storage and how to find it and remember it later. You can find hidden storage to get more organized if you just look up! Organizing experts have the benefit of objectivity to see storage in clients' homes when they can't. These Clutter Video Tips are posted frequently here on our clutterdiet organizing channel. You can search Twitter for #ClutterVideoTip also to find comments on our organizing tips. Lorie Marrero is the creator of ClutterDiet.com and the author of The Clutter Diet: The Skinny on Organizing Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life. Lorie also serves as the national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International and ambassador of the Donate Movement.

Transcript:
Hey, it's Lorie Marrero and today's Clutter Video Tip is about finding hidden storage in your home. Here's a place maybe you haven't thought about -- the tops of your cabinets. We've got here about four and a half inches of [POP] storage that you can't even see from the floor that's apparently being used to store extra light bulbs. And you can't see it because of this piece of molding right here, but it's actually pretty deep. If you don't mind that it shows, you can store [POP] something like vases that might stick up but are still decorative. Or if you have a lot of small items that you don't want showing, you can also use a basket so that the basket looks nice and then you're utilizing all of this vertical space.

One of the goals of any organizing project is visibility. So you might want to think about how you're going to remember what you put up there. Here we have the cabinet where we keep our typical stock of light bulbs and I actually put a label there that says "More Light Bulbs are on Top of Cabinets" with a little arrow to remind me where the extras are located.

So how does your storage measure up? You can get some more great organizing strategies at our website at clutterdiet.com/freetips.

See you next time, and may you always be happy and grateful for having more than enough.

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[clutterdiet]

Karen-- sorry you find them distracting... there is so much I want to say and yet want to keep the videos under 2 minutes. And it definitely does not hurt our rankings for people to watch the videos twice!!! Wink, wink! :) Comments here and from friends that are for and against the popups come out about 80% positive so I think we'll keep them.

[CampColombo]

Now this one is in the spirit of our 34 ft camper/full time home! We have found many creative "hidden storage" spots that we use. I plan on making you a video response for this one as I get the time. You would giggle at some of the spots we use for storage :)

[mewendyful]

The pop ups are great, they crack me up. Love your helpful hints overall, thank you!! :)

[ilenehaddad]

Great tip! Thanks for sharing. :) I do like the popups if they're short and not too detailed.

[ilenehaddad]

Great tip! Thanks for sharing. :)

[Karen402100]

Great idea.  Still finding the pop-ups distracting. Now a listen to the video and then play it a second time to read the pop-ups!

[cateue20201]

Labeling is great. I know I would write what is up there on a paper and tape it to the inside door of the cabinet.. it works!

[Perdnee]

Good idea - I love the idea of labeling....I forget all the time where I put something.