Organize Your Closets With Our Closet Cleaning and Decluttering Checklist

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Organizing and decluttering your closets can be a big undertaking. Our closet cleaning and decluttering checklist can be a great way to make it far more manageable.

We’ve turned closet organization into a series of simple, specific tasks you can do daily, over several weeks, or all in one go if you have the time. It’s entirely up to you.

You can get our closet cleaning and decluttering checklist by scrolling to the end of the article. Good luck organizing your closets!

Here are all the ideas in the checklist in full. As mentioned above, you can do these at a pace that works for you.

Take a ‘before’ photo.

Set up 4 boxes (donate, repair, toss/recycle).

Take everything out of the closet.

Wipe down all the shelves.

Clean all the drawers.

Vacuum the floor in the closet.

Replace any broken hangers.

Decide how to organize things in the closet.

Sort through the shoes, donating what you don’t need.

Add any shoes that need repairing to the ‘repair’ box.

Toss/recycle any shoes that are beyond repair.

Organize all the shoes you decided to keep (and clean them).

Start organizing clothes using a system (color-coding, by item, etc).

Go through your clothes and decide what you want to donate.

Add any clothes that need repairing to the ‘repair’ box.

Toss any clothes that are beyond repair.

Store away off-season items and label the boxes.

Wash any clothes that need washing.

Iron or steam any clothes that need ironing or steaming.

Take anything that needs dry cleaning to the dry cleaners.

Organize all the clothes you decided to keep.

Go through your accessories (donate, repair, toss, keep).

Try some organizing accessories like hooks or jewelry stands.

Add cedar blocks and lavender sachets.

Set a 30-minute timer and do any remaining bits.

Take your donation box to a donation drop-off point.

Repair the items in your ‘repair’ box.

Toss/recycle the ones in the respective box.

Take an ‘after’ photo to compare to the ‘before’ one.

Get the closet cleaning and decluttering ideas printable here.

It’s not an easy task to organize, declutter, and clean your closets. Take your time with the process, do a little bit every day if things are busy, and use the checklist to guide you.

You may also enjoy our bedroom cleaning and organization printable.