About a year and a half ago I realized I was spending too much time looking for specific clothes in my closet. My wonderful wife handles the laundry, which I greatly appreciate, but I never knew exactly where something might be. Like many people, I wear certain clothes depending on my role or context at the time. At my full-time job I either have to wear a dress shirt and tie or a company logo shirt—I have A LOT of company logo shirts ; I have special logo shirts for my other business; long-sleeve shirts; casual non-work short sleeve shirts; T-shirts; pants; and sweatshirts. These used to all be mixed together. Finding a logo shirt for work, or a long sleeve dress shirt for church was a bit of a hassle.

I got the idea to make some closet rod dividers to separate my clothes by type. With this quick, easy, and cheap tool, it made it much easier for my wife to put my clothes away, and it made it much easier for me to find what I was looking for.

Last week I ran across these Closet Dividers that were mentioned in a newsletter that I receive. When I saw the ad, it reminded me that I had never shared my template here. So I thought, Why not let my readers save themselves $12.99 and make their own Closet Rod Dividers just like I did?!

All you have to do is print my Closet Rod Divider PDF file onto cardstock and follow the step-by-step directions on the printout. (Printer dialogue options vary depending on which program you use to view and print PDF files. Make sure that you turn off any page scaling or shrinking options or else the closet rod hole may be too small). Label your Closet Rod Dividers and slide them onto your closet rod. As you can tell from the picture, I keep my dividers to the left of my clothes with the labeled tab folded over the type of clothes on the right. If you find other applications for this, or just find it incredibly useful yourself, be sure to let me know!

Happy organizing!