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Don’t you just love shopping at Costco? Everything comes in super large bottles or packages and it lasts you forever! The only problem would be—you have to have some kind of storage area for bringing Costco purchases home.

Thank goodness I have a little storage area I use for my bulky Costco purchases. If you don’t have space specifically for these items, it could really start to make your home look cluttered with everything piled up everywhere. I mean, look at the size of everything!

If you don’t have the storage space, I wouldn’t suggest shopping your heart out at Costco unless you’re going to split things with a friend. Then again, if you can find a nice little corner of your home tucked out-of-the-way somewhere—feel free to stack everything against the wall.

I wouldn’t suggest doing this for everything though. I only do this for a few select items that make more sense to get at Costco. Everything else I pretty much buy as I need it at other stores—because who wants a home full of stuff cluttering up the place?

So, if you have nothing else to do today, shop to your heart’s content at Costco and stock up on your favorite products in bulk—but only after they send you those coupons in the mail with all your favorites marked down at a lower price.

Take-Away Life Lesson: Buying products in bulk that you use over and over can save you from having to buy them again for a few weeks or months—and that’s always a good thing.

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I tell you what—if anything keeps me sane in this world it’s an organized closet. Not just an organized closet either—a neat and organized home in general. Clutter and disorganization are the bane of my existence.

I’ve lived amongst disorganization before and, believe me, it drove me nuts. Who wants to come home to that everyday and be surrounded by madness? My whole body just stresses out and tenses up seeing so much clutter. I mean, you can never find anything either and it takes forever to get ready for the day.

My favorite neat freak, Colin Cowie, is spot on in that everything should have its place. You feel great, you’re not stressed, and you know where everything is at a moment’s notice. Amirite?

Not saying I’m perfect with this or anything—but I do try my best. I do have my moments where I lapse but it doesn’t last very long, I tell you.

Sweaters

Coats & Umbrellas

This also makes it somewhat fun getting dressed and putting outfits together everyday. You can actually find things when you organize your clothes by item, style, and colors.

I decided the sweaters here should have a space of their own in an armoire off to the side. Inside the bottom drawer are various gloves and winter scarves & hats. I figure I’m only going to wear these things during the freezing cold winter months whereas the walk-in closet has pieces I can wear all year-round.

The coat closet is not as spacious as I’d like, but it’ll do. I can’t possibly stuff one more coat in there though.