Keep Your Favorite Hats Organized With This Space-Saving Closet Solution

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Hats are a fun way to accessorize most outfits. They can say something about your interests or affiliations. For instance, your favorite hat may have a sports team logo, the symbol of a club you're a part of, or it may say you're a veteran. But if you wear many hats, you may have trouble finding a place to store them. You can always toss them in a closet, but this clutter may cause a lot of avoidable stress and make it harder to find things. To avoid the pitfalls of clutter, you can hang S hooks from your shelves to organize your closet on a budget.

This approach is known as vertical storage — a strategy that takes advantage of space you might not otherwise think of using. Vertical storage is great for decluttering your shelves and floors. For this reorganization project, it helps to have wire racks connected to the walls, because you can use them to attach your hooks. But, don't worry if you just have simple wooden shelves. We'll walk you through how to revamp this hack for any type of closet. The whole project should only take a few minutes of your time, and best of all, it will only cost a few bucks. 

You can purchase a set of hooks like these Kangaroo S-hooks for under $10. These hooks are curved on both ends, which allows you to hang them from a clothing rack and attach your hat to the other end. Pop one end of each S-hook or Z-hook over the bar of the your wire shelf or rack. There are some limitations to this hack. These hooks will work best for ballcaps, but they unfortunately will not work as well for cowboy hats, fedoras, and bowler hats. 

You may run out of space on your clothing racks, or you might not even have a wire rack in your closet, in which case, there are plenty of other clever ways to declutter your baseball hats. For instance, you can attach hooks to the wall. Any hardware store sells hooks that can screw into a wall, and this may work well for you. However, a lot of people try to avoid screwing holes into their walls, especially for something as trivial as a hat hanger. In this case, you can purchase a pack of adhesive hooks like these damage-free Command hooks for just over $5. There are a few other ways to store and organize your hats, which include repurposing a shoe organizer into a hat rack.