10 Best Shoe Racks For Men's Shoes

Best Shoe Racks For Men's Shoes in 2023

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Seven Uses for Over the Door Shoe Storage Racks

Seven different household uses for cheap over the door shoe organizers to organize kids stuff and grownups too.

As a mom of two little girls we have a ton of stuff. Small stuff tends to get lost, misplaced, broken, or otherwise abused. There is never, ever, enough room for all the stuff that accumulates with kids but this is just one way I have found to tame the beast. Hanging shoe organizers. They are cheap and flexible. I like the ones that have a pocket for each shoe to go in, not the bars, because this is the only way they work for this purpose. Our house has two closets in every bed room but only has shelves at the top. I am short, my kids are short, the only person who is not short is my husband and he is not going to go in there and pull Barbie's off the top shelf every five minutes. I had looked at custom closet organizers many times and spending a couple of hundred dollars a pop times six closets was not in my budget. To me, I thought it was wasted space until I had a stroke of genius one day at the dollar store. They had shoe organizers on sale for $4 each. I bought a handful and then tried to figure out what to do with them when I got home. This is what I came up with.

Shoes/Clothes/Hair bows

This one is obvious. I used two of the organizers to separate and organize my daughter's shoes. They are only a few sizes away from each other right now and it can get tedious trying to figure out whose pink flip flops I have and who's I don't. So I hung one rack inside each of their closet doors and divided the shoes by size. This way, when we are in a rush, I am not picking through a tub box full of shoes unable to find the pair I need. I also hung one on the outside of their closets to keep matching sets of hair bows together and sets of hats/scarves/mittens.

School Supplies

When I went shopping for back to school this year I couldn't pass up some of the deals like crayons, pencils, and glue that I knew would be much higher later in the year when they needed to be restocked. My solution, buy extra while they were on sale, it is not like crayons have an expire date. Instead of leaving them piled in bags I divided the smaller items into the pockets hanging on the inside of the closet door in my office.

Household Accessories

I have taken to ordering my cleaning supplies and some of my health and beauty items from my favorite dollar store online. By doing this I get to take advantage of their online coupons, $10 off $50 and free shipping. This meant that I had several bottles of shampoo and conditioner, soaps, razors, air freshener, dish liquid and so on piling up. I hung one of these inside both of my hall closets and used the pockets to hold the bottles and smaller items like nail polish that would fit. This freed up more shelf space for larger items that would not fit into the small pockets.

Snacks

My kids go through fruit snacks, crackers, and other small snacks like crazy. I decided to use one of these organizers in the kitchen on the pantry door to keep their small snacks in to keep the boxes from piling up and taking up so much space. I have all of my appliances like crock pots, coffee maker, counter top grill, food processor and blender in my pantry because I have no counter space in the kitchen so this left more room for important stuff like food. This also allows the kids to reach the snacks they like themselves, and allows me to stash cookies and candy or chips in the higher pockets that they cannot reach yet.

Toys

It seems like the fewer toys I declare I will buy the more we have. I hung up four of the organizers on an empty wall in the kid's room using nails instead of the hooks they came with for the door. I put the bottom flush with the floor where the top pocket would not be as high up. I divided smaller toys like paper dolls, all the fast food toys, matchbox cars, cell phones, and Barbie dolls and clothes into these pockets. Now the kids can have a place to put them away themselves and know where to go back to get the toys at. I also used one of the four for their Nintendo DS, the travel case, games, and charging cords. I also tucked in their MobiGo's and games.

Office Supplies

I use our spare bedroom as an office since I have been working and going to school from home. I have tons of little odds and ends like printer ink, pencils, pens, highlighters, stapler and extra staples, paper clips, sticky notes, envelopes and stamps, and on and on. I hung one organizer inside the closet to hold the extras and the stuff I don't use as often so it would be handy and organized without having to buy a whole new desk.

Video Games and Electronics

We have what I call a cell phone grave yard in our house. It is a drawer that is full of old, broken and unused cell phones and the chargers and accessories that go to them. However, I cannot bring myself to throw them away because I keep thinking we may need them one day. The same goes for all the old and extra controls to the game systems and all the charging and docking stations and cords. I hung one organizer inside the living room closet for these items. By dividing all of them up into the pockets it is easy to find the cord that we need.

This is only the beginning right now as I am still looking for more ways to further organize and de-clutter our house. The main idea is to think outside the box, think cheap, and think easy.