14 Organization Hacks We Learned From TikTok & Wish We Knew Sooner

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There are some areas of our homes that just seem never to be tidy — whether because you don't have the right systems in place or need a different organizer to better corral your items. That's where CleanTok comes in. Scroll long enough, and there'll be a TikTok idea to help you solve just about any organizational problem, from how to make the back of your cabinets less of a black hole to how to tame all of your random cords (for good). We've covered lots of TikTok storage hacks that are worth trying, and keep on discovering more: Here are 14 organizing ideas you won't want to sleep on. 

They span almost every room — from your bedroom closet and bathroom vanity to your pantry cabinet. Some hacks help you stash your items in a more streamlined manner, like alternating stemware glasses so more of them fit in one shelf. Others recommend using common items in unusual but very helpful ways, like utilizing a wine rack to hold your drinking tumblers. And some leverage ingenious purpose-built organizers that will get your shelf or drawer organized once and for all. Here are some of the app's best hacks.

It seems like every household is overrun with small gadgets nowadays, and each one of them comes with its own charger. Whether you have a desktop dehumidifier, a Canon camera, a portable outdoor speaker for the patio, or a Yoto player for the kids — all of these cords and cables can start to mount up. And unless you have a system in place for where to keep them, they usually just end up cluttered in a junk drawer, where you no longer remember which cord goes with which gadget. If you want to change that mayhem-heavy storage system, take one of the best organization tricks on TikTok: Store each cord in a plastic case, and label it with the gadget's name.

You can store these cases either in a specified drawer or in a large basket. If in a drawer, put down a grippy shelf liner, so the boxes don't move every time you open it. Some of the best plastic cases to use are those meant for bead storage, because they're just big enough to hold cords but aren't bulky, allowing you to store a considerable amount in a single drawer. An example of one is the Satinior Clear Plastic Beads Storage Containers. However, if you have a few cords with adapters attached, you can get a slightly bulkier box to fit that, such as the Benecreat Rectangle Case Set. Once you have your storage boxes, put one cord in each box, labeling as you go. Line the boxes on either side of the drawer or basket, then place one to two acrylic containers in the middle. You can put all your loose adapters in those containers, so you can grab one with your chosen case.

If you have a robust sweatshirt collection that never seems to stay organized in your closet, it might be time to abandon the idea of housing them folded on shelves. Instead, try storing your hoodies in a hanging shoe organizer over your closet door. Not only is it a great way to see your entire collection at a glance, but you also won't topple a pile by grabbing a sweatshirt from the bottom or middle. It can also be helpful if you don't have much closet space and need to find creative ways to display your clothing.

Simply grab an over-the-shoe organizer, roll each sweatshirt into a log, and put it into a compartment. However, not all organizers will work for this hack. You need to make sure that the pockets are large enough to house chunky hoodies. For instance, the affordable Dollar Tree shoe organizers would be much too small. Instead, pick one like the Paulone Over the Door Shoe Organizer, which can accommodate larger shoes, such as men's sneakers.

If your kitchen cabinets look cluttered and overrun with drinking tumblers, then you know just how disorganized that setup can be. Not only is it hard to see your entire collection, but it's cumbersome trying to grab the cups in the second or even third row from the back. Luckily, TikTok has shown us a better way to store these beverage cups, and that's to put them in an acrylic wine rack.

Arguably, this hack started with Dollar Tree. When the iconic dollar store released its acrylic, stackable wine organizers, TikTok creators saw the potential to create a tumbler system — especially since similar wine racks cost upwards of $25 on Amazon. All you had to do was get as many organizers as you have cups from Dollar Tree, stack them horizontally on your shelf, and put a tumbler into each slot. At $1.25 each, six holders would cost $7.50. If you don't have a Dollar Store near you, Target's Brightroom line sells a Hydration Storage Organizer with three compartments for $12. Or, if you want a free alternative, you can repurpose a small wine rack you're no longer using as bottle storage in your cabinet. 

Want a convenient storage solution will keep your linens fresh and organized? Linen closets can quickly look disorganized and unruly. Sheets — especially mattress sheets — aren't the easiest to fold,  and if you fail to create crisp lines, linen closet shelves can start to look sloppy. However, you can mask that by investing in bed sheet organizers. These containers look like giant binders, but they can store an entire bedding set. They can also hold towel sets or spare or seasonal blankets, allowing you to neatly compartmentalize your entire linen closet. You can also label them, allowing you to grab whichever set you need quickly at a glance.

Such an example is the Big PonPon Foldable Bed Sheets Set Organizer, which comes in a set of four and can hold up to king-size sheets. However, keep in mind that you have to fold your items small enough so they fit inside the container. While you can eyeball the size, it can make things easier to cut a piece of cardboard as big as the case and fold around it, using it as a guide.

When it comes to the kitchen and pantry, the highest, hard-to-reach shelves are usually designated for items you don't use very often. Whether that's your cold medicine, dry goods you use once in a blue moon for a recipe, or baking supplies, those items tend to get shoved up there and quickly forgotten. That's because you tend to only remember what you can see, and you can't see past that first layer. Well, TikTok organizers have shared a handy trick to remedy the issue: Place all of your top-shelf items in clear acrylic bins. This allows you to remove the entire bin every time you need something, getting reacquainted with the contents each time. Plus, it allows you to reach those back-of-the-shelf items without the need for a step stool or ladder.

Group like items together and put them into separate bins. For example, you can keep all of your flu and cold essentials in one bin, and infrequently-used cookie cutters in another. To make removing the bin easier, choose a container with a handle, such as Brightroom's Large Bathroom Organizer.

Lazy Susans make it easier to reach the back of your pantry or cupboard shelf, allowing you to see all of its contents with a quick flick of the wrist. You can apply the same convenience to your fridge with a specially designed rectangular version. This organizer saves a lot more space because it fits snugly against the fridge's corners, ensuring you don't waste any precious room. The organizer makes grabbing condiments easier, and also makes the shelves look less messy. It can corral all your ingredients into one compact section, rather than strewn across the entire shelf.

One of the most affordable options is the Brightroom Turntable from Target, which clocks in at $12 (compared to IKEA's version, which is $35). It stays in place with suction cups, and you can load anything from tubs of butter to Costco-sized ketchup bottles on it. You can also place one on multiple shelves to keep the entire fridge organized and clutter-free.

In a kitchen, drawers are superior to shelves in bottom cabinets. They let you see everything you have stored at a glance, and don't require you to get on your hands and knees to dig out whatever is stashed in the back corners of the unit. And installing new cabinets isn't the only way to get this level of functionality. If TikTok has taught us anything, it's that there is always a way to avoid a kitchen gut reno. Instead, outfit the shelves with retrofitted drawers. Depending on your handyman level, you can either get ones that stick onto your cabinet with adhesive, or ones that you can screw in for a more permanent solution.

If you want to store weighty items on these drawers — such as small appliances, pots and pans, or heavy pantry dry goods — then it's best to choose a drawer that screws into the cabinet. You also want to focus on one made from either metal or wood, so it doesn't bend under the weight of the items. One example is the Holdn' Storage Pull Out Cabinet Organizers, which is also 5 inches tall, ensuring everything stays contained as you pull the drawer in and out. However, if you don't feel comfortable using a drill, you can instead install an adhesive drawer. The Fokyfok Pull Out Cabinet Organizer is made of carbon steel and attaches to your shelving via nano tape. Customer photos show everything from large pantry jars to small appliances being stored on them, so they seem like a promising alternative.

Pants can be tricky to store. Sure, there are special hangers that let you either hang pants from their cuffs or fold them over their middle. But many of us simply slip them over a regular hanger. This usually means there's a lot of space left on the bar, causing the pants to slip around. Luckily, there's a TikTok hanger hack that'll make your closet more aesthetically pleasing: Use baby hangers. The smaller hangers will take up less space in the closet, allowing you to only see the pants.

To use this hack in your own closet, buy children's hangers in the same colorway as your existing ones. Then simply fold your pants over the smaller hangers and group them together in a section of your wardrobe. The end result will be much more streamlined. Luckily, kid hangers are usually cheaper than adult ones. For example, a 50-pack of Amazon Basics Kids Hangers is $23, whereas the adult ones are $30.

If you have a robust shoe collection, you probably struggle to keep it all organized. No matter if you try lining them up on shelves, hanging them off tension rods, or stashing them in a large cupboard, the situation always tends to get away from you a bit. Enter the TikTok-approved plastic storage boxes. These clear boxes are stackable, allowing you to configure them however your space allows. You can create an entire wall in your walk-in, or squeeze a few rows on top of a dresser or on your closet floor. You can even clear out an entire reach-in closet and just create a whole wall of these shoe boxes. Then put one pair of shoes in each box, creating a designated home for each.

There are a few perks to this setup. First, your shoes will never topple over each other as they do on a shelf, or get lost in the far corners of a closet floor. Second, since they're completely enclosed, you won't have to worry about wiping away dust as you would in open shelving. Lastly, since they're evenly spaced and compartmentalized, you will be able to take in your options quickly, allowing you to see everything you own at a glance. You can get a 12-pack of Amazon Basics Clear Shoe Organizer Boxes for a little under $40, meaning you don't have to break the bank for a large shoe collection.

Unless you have an impressively big china cabinet in your dining room, you likely aren't blessed with a huge amount of cabinet space to house all of your glassware. And if you enjoy hosting, that can be a problem. Where can you stash all your different wine glasses, champagne flutes, and martini glasses? Luckily, you won't need to put them away in storage boxes. Instead, TikTok has come to the rescue with a hack that literally doubles your cabinet space: Place them in alternating positions, with one glass standing on its stem and the next standing on its lip.

This allows the stemware to be arranged more compactly, since you no longer have dead space between glasses when they're arranged lip-to-lip. This also makes your cupboards appear neater, since the extra space often means you can store most, if not all, like-glasses together rather than dispersing them across multiple shelves. This can also work for non-stem glasses, such as drinking glasses that flare out.

If you're stocking up to feed a family, you might have a few dozen cans in your pantry on any given day. Keeping them all grouped together, looking neat, and easy to find and access is no simple task. Luckily, TikTok is full of folks using ingenious organizers that can help solve this exact problem, and one of the most popular models on Amazon is the Shelf Reliance Cansolidator Pantry Plus.

Unlike typical acrylic organizers, which usually just store one row of cans, this thing is robust. One unit can hold 60 cans, and you can stack multiple organizers on top of each other or place them side by side, allowing you to customize it to your space. They're also a great option for storing drinks, allowing you to corral all of your sodas, bubble waters, and beers. If you're looking for a cheaper solution, there are also various wire rack designs, such as this Kitchen Details 3-Tier Can Organizer. Finally, there are even free ways to organize cans, such as this easy and efficient can hack that maximizes pantry storage.

Figuring out ways to keep travel mugs organized can be a challenge. Especially the Stanley ones, due to their sheer size. And seeing how many fun colors and patterns they come in, most people have a whole collection, which means the shelf they're stored on is usually pretty chaotic. However, TikTok users have found ingenious ways to store them, and one easy idea is to find a slide-out insert especially made to keep them vertically organized.

The insert in question is the Blingyouth Store Stanley 40 ounce Cup Organizer, which is a white shelf insert that pulls out like a drawer, allowing you to see your entire collection at a glance. That means you no longer will have to root around and make a mess to get to the ones in the back. With this organizer, you can store eight bottles in a single unit. Simply attach it to the shelf with its adhesive strip, let it cure, and you're ready to go. If you're not one to store lids and straws with your tumblers, you can add another organizer next to it, such as this Stanley tumbler Lid Organizer.

The under-sink cabinet usually becomes a black hole of loose cleaning supplies, errant sponges, and forgotten cleaning caddies. If you're ready to make it more functional and less chaotic, then consider updating it with the help of tension rods. TikTokers have found success installing two small tension rods across the cabinet — one staggered under the other — and then inserting small baskets into those slots. These baskets are perfect for capturing all of the small items that tend to float around without a home in the cabinet, like opened packets of sponges, small bristle brushes, and dishwasher pods. And since this uses the empty space at the top of the cabinet, the bottom remains clear and can be filled with cleaning supplies, such as spray bottles.

To mimic this exact setup, you'll need a pair of thin tension rods, so that the baskets can easily hook onto them. These Tyron Thin Spring Tension Rods are less than half an inch thick, and expand up to 45 inches. Pair them with the Herchr 2-Pack Under Shelf Storage Basket Organizers.

Wine holders aren't just great at holding travel mugs in kitchen cabinets. They're also ideal for housing hair tools in bathroom vanities. Simply stack as many inserts as you have hair tools to create a customized organizer in your cabinet. You can also use the slots to hold different round brush or blow dryer attachments, keeping them within arm's reach. Dollar Tree's wine rack organizers are an affordable option at $1.25. 

This hack is helpful because it offers tiered organization and utilizes the empty space at the top of the cabinet, making the most of your vanity storage. You can also consider storing your most-used haircare bottles in an spare slots. This allows you to break them out of your general collection and make them easier to access, right next to your heat tools.