Declutter All The Handbags In Your Closet With Two Dollar Tree Kitchen Essentials

If you avoid opening your closet for fear of being hit by an explosion of handbags, you're not alone. Many people suffer the effects of having one too many purses stashed in the closet with no good place to put them. Fortunately for you (and others who suffer from too-many-handbags-itis), a quick trek to the Dollar Tree is all that's needed to prevent the next Vesuvius-sized eruption of Kors and Coach in your closet. While the makeshift shelf unit you'll construct from your Dollar Tree essentials isn't the fancy schmancy set-up you'll get from Designer Closets Near You (or whatever), it works. And more importantly, this budget DIY will probably cost you $20 or less.

Once at the Dollar Tree, head straight for the kitchen aisle. The first thing to pick up is some Essentials white wire cabinet shelves. A few Essentials white wire dish drying racks should be the next items that make their way into your cart. How many of each of these pieces you pick up will be determined by how many purses and handbags you have to stash. Two of each is probably enough to start, though if you have a serious handbag addiction, be prepared to take home a few more of these Essentials pieces.

This budget-friendly idea for organizing your closet also requires some zip ties. Dollar Tree carries a pack of 65 8-inch zip ties under the Tool Bench brand. Finally, you'll need either a pair of scissors or some wire cutters for this DIY as well.

While there are many ways to keep handbags organized in your closet, this one is relatively simple with just a bit of assembly involved. It's nothing complicated. To start, you'll need one of the cabinet shelves and one of the drying racks, plus the zip ties to make a single unit. The cabinet shelf forms the base of the unit. On top of this, you'll stack the drying rack. Use several zip ties to fasten the two piece together — this will bind the top and the bottom Essentials pieces into a single purse storage unit. The lengths of each of the wire storage pieces are nearly identical, so you should be able to stack the Dollar Tree items together and line them up fairly evenly. Put at least one tie in each corner with more if necessary for stability. Trim the excess ends off the ties once they're securely attached to the wire racks.

If you have only six or seven handbags, it's likely that just one shelf unit will do the trick. If you have more, then you'll need to do the process again. If you wind up with two or more of these DIY units, bind them together with the zip ties to create one larger storage unit. When this is done, each slot of the dish dryer becomes a placeholder for a purse. And the bottom rack is roomy enough to hold a couple of larger bags that are too wide to fit into the slots of the drying rack. One of the reasons why this DIY works so well is because it separates your handbags enough for you to see individual bags, which makes it easier to find the perfect accessory quickly.

The Dollar Tree really can be your one-stop shop for all-things handbag storage — there are many ways to free up closet space with clever Dollar Tree handbag organizing hacks. Thinner purses may not fit well in the slots of the drainer rack. That's where a Dollar Tree book bin comes in handy. This can be placed next to your wire rack shelves to keep all of your purses in one area. Just slide your thin purses and wallets into the bins. All of these organizers can be put on the upper shelves of your closet to keep them out of the way yet accessible.

If you still need more storage space for bags, especially larger ones, like backpacks, invest in some over-the-door hooks. You can use these to organize your bags if your closet doors open outward instead of sliding back and forth. If that's not the case, hang metal garden S-hooks on the bar of the closet below the stash of handbags at the top of the closet. Because those are designed to hang heavy planters, this Dollar Tree storage hack is the solution you need for the heavy-bag dilemma.

Finally, if your backpack stash leans more toward fashionable than hike-ready, hang the shoulder straps of the fashion pack on some Dollar Tree hangers. The hangers have "dips" in them. Be sure to slide the straps of the backpack into the dips to keep them securely on the hanger once you put them in the closet.