What is the best way you've found to keep hats and mittens organized?? I have a big basket that somehow all ends up on the floor right in front of the door every morning! It ain't workin!!!! Any suggs???


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Shannon Martinson

I wish I did. I do have separate bins for each family member that I keep in the laundry room next to the garage door, but a lot of times they come in wet and soggy and I don't have a good place to put them.


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Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ~Erich Fromm

I agree. I have tried baskets, bins, etc. I even tried a wall hanger that had individual pockets (like a shoe organizer), but the pockets on the one I have were too small (I think it was for beanie babies actually ). If the pockets were large enough, it may work though. Let me know if you find something, I love to try to stay organized

I have one of those iron mitten trees to hang wet items on. I LOVE it. When hats and mittens are dry, I have the kids put their mittens in their hat and their hats in their sleeves. And I stand there and make sure that they do it...I don't assume. Carly is really great at it (course, she's 10). Jack and Payton are doing fairly well.

I use a basket and try to make sure each person only has 2 sets in there. I also try to buy a variety of colors so that it is easier to pair them. Otherwise, I can not help. We have a super small house and when all the boots and coats are home there is barely room to open the door. If I had a "perfect world" the individual bins would be great or a shelf above their coat hooks for them to lay them to dry. At school, I know I saw a clothes drying rack with clothes pins for the kids to hang them to dry.

Good luck

I've thought about hanging clothes lines on the back of the garage door with different colored clothes pins for each person to hang their stuff on - or maybe different heights for each person? Put them there to dry and they stay there until you need them again - one step.


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Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ~Erich Fromm

My kids wear matched mittens once at the beginning of the season, then throw them in our mitten box. After that they settle for any dry mitten they dig up that's their approximate size and go for pure warmth. They know I won't be digging to match mittens for them and they go for quick and practical. My solution was not to care if they have matching mittens on.

Or matching socks.

Although, as someone pointed out earlier, it's so I don't even notice if they have two left shoes on....


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I superglued clothespins to the wall in the garage and I hang the kids hats and mittens there to dry. I'm not the most crafty person, but I wrote their names on the clothespins all cute-like. That could be a fun project for your older kids. I park in the garage and it's attached to our house so it makes is super easy when we're leaving/coming home.


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"You can't stay in your corner of forest waiting for others to come to you. You've got to go to them sometimes." -Winnie the Pooh

I do use the over-the-door shoe rack to store them in pairs. We have a drying rack by our downstairs fireplace, so if they are wet, they go there first.


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--Katie