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I do something very much like this. I went to Hobby Lobby and purchased a couple packages of multi colored foam sheets. I find the color that coordinates with the bag and cut out a decent sized rectangle. On the rectangles I use a special marker that writes on foam. I jot the name of the bag. Then I use a safety pin and fix it onto the dust bag. Then I store them by color, separating fall/winter from the spring/summer so I can at least know which closet to go to, to grab a bag. I store them on racks in our large walk in closet as well as another walk in closet in a spare bedroom. I can find them very easily, since the big foam piece on the bag helps me find the color I'm looking for.
Now here's where I admittedly get really compulsive. I keep a pic file of all my bags, sorted by color and download the pics to my I phone. So when I'm getting ready, I take a look at my black bags, or pink ones or red, or whatever goes best with what I'm wearing, and then go to grab it, which is so much easier now that I used the foam tags in the coordinating color.
Since I started doing this, I also take the Iphone pic and make the bag I am wearing that day my phone's wallpaper.
Yep, call me scarface. I'm an addict.....Pretty soon I'll be cutting up leather on a mirror and snorting it up my nose with a straw. LOL
This is the elfa system from the container store. I purchased some sweater boxes to store some of my bags in.
Positives-you can see the bags through the little window and they will not get
dusty
Negatives- they initially have a bit of a glue smell so you have to air them out.
They get expensive when you purchase a bunch of them. My logic
Is that I'll use my bags more so I won't keep buying new ones.
Thank you! I spent a very hot August weekend putting it together a few years ago before we installed air conditioning!
I love the container store as much(maybe more) than the Coach store!
I am running out of room to buy any more bags, I have too many as it is!
My DH has the other side of the closet and the wooden armoire at the end,plus 3/4 of the underbed space so I'm out of luck!
My dream is to be this organized!!!! ahah I am such a mess right now and the problem is that I have too much space (i.e. the spare bedroom), so I just have stuff all over the place! I'm going to save these pictures and use them as motivation! Thank you so much for posting!!
