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I did it!

Luckily, not all of the ideas I pin on Pinterest fall into the "I'll never actually do this" file.  It can be a little difficult to conquer every idea/tip when you have nearly 2,500 of them.  Yet, I keep pinning away.  I'm sure you all understand.

But today I am pleased to announce that I just successfully completed one idea I saw on the site--drawer organization, more specifically, my workout clothes drawer.

Jon and I have yet to move down the extra dresser that's been sitting in my mom's garage so we're currently functioning off of one dresser and one closet between the two of us.  As a result, half of what once was my own old dresser is now full of half of Jon's clothes.  Two drawers for myself=crowded and completely unorganized mayhem.

Thankfully, something I saw on Pinterest came to my rescue.  The other day, I saw a pin that featured a lady's drawer with all of her shirts folded tightly and stacked vertically instead of horizontally.  Why haven't I thought of this?!  It's like a filing cabinet of clothes!  So simple and so genius.  It looked like it would be a great solution for my haphazard workout clothes drawer so I gave it a shot.

Here was my drawer before:

And here is the after...


Ahh doesn't that look so much better?  Now I can actually see all of the contents without having to search through lopsided piles.  And look!  There's even a little space to spare!  

Thank you, Pinterest!

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