Posted by De-Clutter-Queen in 
The best place to start organizing is the cupboards or closets that have not been gone through in years. Most likely, that messy pantry closet is the heart of your clutter and once you straighten that mess, the rest will follow suit. And the first step, as scary as it sounds, is taking everything out of the closet and starting fresh with a clean, empty space.
As you are going through items that you have likely not paid any mind in years, you may decide that the item is not worth keeping. Be prepared with bags to hold anything that will make it’s way to the dumpster. As for the rest of the items that are in the closet, organize them in piles of like items. This is a great way to get the kids involved. You can create piles in other parts of the house, if certain items really don’t belong in a pantry closet but rather in another room, and your kids can help deliver the items to the various piles that they belong. Everything that is to go back in the closet should be piled in close vicinity so that when you are all done, you can take a visual inventory of what needs to go back in.
Never buy closet organizers blindly. How would you buy an organizer without a true grasp on what you are organizing? Once you have the closet emptied and the piles are all in front of you, now is time to sit down with pen and paper and make a plan for how all the items should go back in, and how they should be organized on the existing shelving that is in the closet, or possibly new units that you can procure.
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