Katherine Schwarzenegger has confessed to 'organizing almost anything and everything' within her home, and her latest clothes storage method proves exactly that. A devoted mom, she undoubtedly has her work cut out with her two young girls, but in a recent video, Katherine found the time to commit to organizing her own dresser, focusing on one specific garment that's a common offender of cluttered drawers - bikinis.
Taking to Instagram to share her somewhat extreme technique for matching her swim sets, Katherine showed us how she stores her bikinis inside individual bags before neatly arranging them within her drawers. The time and patience needed to organize these plastic pouches might not be realistic for all of us (especially if your bikini collection is a more average size...) but organization experts say there's actually method to the madness. If you're looking for closet organization ideas for matching sets of clothes, this could be the best solution out there.
At first sight, Katherine's technique for bathing suit organization might seem a little over-the-top. It's easy to dismiss her idea - shared via an Instagram reel - as another example of out-of-touch celebrity shtick, but on closer inspection, it might actually be worth its salt.
Bikinis are notoriously hard to organize. How many times have you gone into your drawer to find a matching set, only to settle for mismatched top and bottoms when you realize one half has gone AWOL? Even if you do manage to find a matching pair, your straps have almost certainly become a tangled mess in the back of your drawer over the course of the winter. If you're ever looking to store matching sets of clothes together, keeping them in small bags like these ones from Walmart - as used by Katherine - could be a game-changer, and it's a great way to make the most of a small closet, too.
If you want to borrow Katherine's idea, however, Ben Soreff, organizing expert at House to Home, suggests starting with a review. 'People tend to buy swimsuits for aspirational reasons since, typically, they are not a high-volume use item and are seasonal, so we tend to see a volume issue,' he says. 'However, most people feel organized in this department because they keep shoving them in the bathsuit drawer and feel like they are done. We want to focus on the suits coming out of the drawer easily.'
The ultimate goal, like anything item of clothing inside a closet or dresser, is to be able to find your swimsuits and retrieve them easily. 'The system in the video is not wrong but it would be considered the Ferrari of organizing and most people only have time for a less time-consuming system,' says Ben.
Instead, he suggests that drawer inserts are the best closet organizers you can use. 'Katherine uses clear storage solutions which is great, but it would probably make more sense to have them in loose but divided sections with separators,' he says. Di Ter Avest, owner of Di is Organized, also shares the same sentiment. 'Don’t pile your clothes in the drawers,' she says, 'always file them instead and use drawer dividers to keep everything in place.'
With her and Ben's advice in mind, we love these clear acrylic drawer inserts from Amazon. 'Even one drawer divider for one piece and bikinis would be fine,' he suggests. 'The challenge with individual zipper bags is they create a sense of archives and we want the suits to be worn. Any barriers create an issue for ease of use.'
The other benefit of storing your swimsuits in a separate container of some kind is that it makes it easier to remove them at the end of the season. Storing away your summer clothes during the colder months can free up space in small closets. As Di notes: 'Keeping just the clothes, you are using in the current season in your closet will create space to see and use all the items you love.'
What at first thought looked to be an extreme organizing technique for anyone with a life to live turns out to be quite the nifty solution. If you want to put an end to cluttered drawers and mismatched bikinis, Katherine's technique might actually be a very helpful one indeed.
