Your Closet Dilemmas, Solved

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PROBLEM: Our (OK, my) shoes are taking over the floor.

SOLUTION: File them away in Lynk's 15-pair convertible shoe rack ($24; wayfair.com), which can be built vertically or horizontally to best suit your space. (Note: Shoes with totally flat soles stay put better in the vertical orientation.) For back-of-the-door storage, consider Panacea/Grayline Products' 24-pair Adjustable Shoe Rack ($40; amazon.com); its shelves can be shifted to hold boots.

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PROBLEM: Where do I put all these purses? (And, no, getting rid of them is not an option.)

SOLUTION: Jokari's got the market cornered on handbag help. The Purse Rack ($10; jokari.com) hooks onto a door and holds your eight fave bags in easy reach. The company's Purse Chain ($10) hangs from the closet bar to stash another eight.

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PROBLEM: There's just not enough hanging space.

SOLUTION: Skip more costly rod reconfiguring by adding the free-hanging Dublet Adjustable Closet Rod Expander by Umbra ($20; The Container Store). You can set the width (from 19.5 to 35.5 inches) and the height (from 28 to 51 inches) for a custom fit.

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Apr 19, 2012 7:43PM

Here we go yet again with the same darn quasi solutions.

The shoe stands collapse and are not built for size 10s. Pumps are never stable on these. Tried a rotating stand too. Doesn't work.

Purse holder has its size limits too...try to put today's totes and larger day bags on said hook thing. Doesn't work.

As for those double hangers, they only work if you are very small. Size 18 pants and tunic tops make this a messy proposition, and many more hangers than the four shown would cause a collapse so that doesn't work either.

If you don't have closet space, you don't. I don't know what the answer is but I am through buying inexpensive and always thrown away solutions designed around small clothes and shoes. How about searching for something that works for the clothes and accessories people actually own? My own goal is to decrease the quantity of my overall wardrobe items.

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Apr 19, 2012 5:34PM

There are only 3 dilemmas addressed here... I hate when they tease you with a certain number of things to review and then don't deliver. AAAUGH! As for the second rod idea, that's just fine if you don't already have a double-rod hanging system -- but what if you do?

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