Space saver!
Whatcha doin?
It’s almost two years since I moved from a small town and a 80 square meters big apartment to a bigger city and a 40 square meters small apartment. Imagine how much stuff I had/have to get rid of when I moved to an apartment half the size!
For example, I had to put one half of my double bed in the basement, which makes me a bit sad since I loved that big bed, even if it was a size for two! I’ve also sold, thrown away and given away a lot of stuff, but I still have one basement storage too much! We are only allowed to have one, but I managed to get two when I moved in ;).
So during the years I have been organizing a lot. Don’t get me wrong, I love organizing! But it really has been a little too much even for me. So a week a go I decided to go over my closets _again_, sorting out clothes that I don’t use or that doesn’t fit me. However, I just didn’t want to throw them all away. I am loosing a liiittle bit weight each month and I just wanted to save some smaller clothes just in case I reach that size again. The rest will be donated to an aid organization.
In the middle of all this I remembered that I several months ago bought 2 compression bags! You know, the big ones that you use a vacuum cleaner to suck out all the air with.
I used one to all the clothes I’m saving. And hell yes, I’m saving a lot of space now! I probably shouldn’t have packed the clothes in such high piles in the bags, but instead used all of the space in it, but it worked out anyway. Just take a look at the picture below! Before I had the clothes in two big boxes. Now, they _all_ will fit in _one_ shelf in the closet. I must say; one of the best inventions ever! ;P
Wow! Jag har aldrig hört talas om sådana påsar. Var finns de att köpa?
Jag har också massor av undanpackade saker. Jag har aldrig haft en större lägenhet men jag har allt eftersom ersatt nästan allt i min lägenhet och packat undan gamla möbler och saker i förrådet. Har du också svårt att göra dig av med saker? Jag tänker alltid “men den här kan ju komma till användning… någon gång”. Och det här med kläder som inte längre passar… jag har en hel del kläder i källaren som jag hoppas komma i igen… någon gång. XD
Jag köpte faktiskt en två-pack på Ica Maxi! Jag har sett sådana på typ Biltema, Netto och Rusta också :)
Ja! Jag har samma problem! Jag tänker alltid att äsch jag sparar det, för det kommer säkert till användning någon gång! Haha. Jag har väldigt svårt för att slänga saker, men ibland får man ta sig i kragen! :P
Oh oh, I want some of those badly! Nice space savin! They look kinda messy when compressed though, that’s the only thing I don’t like. I suppose I could just shove them under or into something and not look at them.
That’s a great idea! I love organizing too… the thing with the bag is that I’d be too lazy to put my clothes in it all the time.. I usually just throw it in my closet or something and actually clean and organize it properly once a week.
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Is that your dog? She/he’s a beauty!! Awww! Wow… that is definitely very useful and you have just given me the GREATEST idea!! I need to pack a lot of clothes for my 4 month stay in France and this may just be the thing I need! I’ll have to go look for this though, am not sure where I can get one. I need to sort out my clothes soon too :D
Yup thats my little dog! :)
And yeah, those bags will be perfect for you when you go to France :)
Aww, your dog is really cute:)
Those bags looks really neat. I have a very small apartment as well, and little place for storage, but I’ve thrown a lot of clothes etc actually. Usually I have a hard time doing so, but if I really get myself together there’s nothing that can stop me:p Or something:p
I had a double bed when I lived at university, I miss double bed! I hate sleeping in a single bed.
You rooms looks really neat, your bookshelf is all neat and tidy. I have similar looking bookshelves and it’s really messy. Maybe it’s time I start to tidy up.
My mum loves those compression bags, she loves to put unused bedding in those and store them away somewhere.