Collecting clothhing and food question

[dlee]

I want to start collecting food and clothing items but I can not tell what I have. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to store or where to store the items? I can put them all in my doc but that is confusing and overwhelming since I have over 100 rooms and over 200 webkinz. I tried under "my page" there you can see other items you have easily but clothing and food only show up there if they are in your doc already. I just wonder if I have missed something...there has to be a better way to do this. Anyway, just wanted any thoughts you may have on how to best start this process. THANKS so much for helping!

[MommyOf4]

What I have found helpful is to a room of only refrigerators for food and a room of dressers only for clothing. When they are full you can make another storage room.

[Cloud One]

I agree with MommyOf4.

I make storage rooms. I have them all in one long row. Then within the rooms I try to keep things somewhat thematic. Maybe have all holiday stuff together, or in one corner of a room. All kinzstyle in another corner etc. You can use different storage units to help you differentiate the different sections of your room. Maybe keep one type of clothing in the book boxes, another in the white dressers etc. Maybe put all pants along one wall, and all shirts along another... figure out what makes the most sense for you.

[photolady]

Try putting all shoes together,all shirts,all pants etc. it helped me.

[Ergoiam]

The rattan toy box is one of my favorite storage items because it is cheap. The vortex will let you store food or clothes. And I also have a outside room full of the ice chest that I bought when they were on sale. But the best thing to do is keep like items with one another and you can always take screen shots so that you know where your items are... good luck with your project.

[KC Connection]

That is what I do! Mommyof4 is right! I went to see what I have and I ended up to have a 07 holiday food! (Yippie!!)

~Kylie

[dlee]

Thank you all for the great ideas -I agree creating storage rooms and sorting by types will be the best thing!

[Bloo's Pal]

I still have a long way to go, but I have started the process of organizing after getting great ideas from Cloud One and others. I already had some rattan boxes, and I bought a lot of the space saving blue book boxes and inside/outside coolers. Now I'm thinking of differentiating more by getting some of the one-square dressers when they go on sale. Boys' clothes would go in the blue-stripe one and girls' in the cream or orange ones. The Halloween chest would be great for costumes, and the Halloween fridge could be used for any holiday food.

[Iwantthemall]

I like to organize by collections and or type and color, ie all baseball hats together, all pieces of an outfit together, etc. I also like to put all the foods from a certain holiday or event together. You might also want to take screen shots of your closets and label them. Good luck!

[melethana]

yes, grouping like items in the same room will be very helpful. Personally, I use the blue book box for storage, it is 95KC, and only takes up one square, however it holds 6 items, not the 8 like the rattan box. However I think the blue book box is the cheapest way to store lots of items in the smallest space possible. I have one room for Snow White items, one for furniture and other big items, and one for magic forest and fall fest items. Fall fest along the walls, fairy items in the center. Think about whether or not you will want to leave aisles between the boxes so your pet can walk to them.