7. Organize Your Socks

This is a simple task and should only take about 30-minutes to complete. Before you organize your socks, make sure all of your socks are clean. Check the dirty clothes, washer, dryer for any socks that may be hiding.

Start my pulling all of your socks out of the drawer and put into groups:

1) Matched socks: These socks are complete sets that you plan to keep.

2) Unmatched: These socks are singles without a mate. From this pile, go through and try and find matches. Separate again by putting new found matches in the matched socks pile and then place the remaining socks into the discard pile.

3) Discard: This pile contains socks that are loners, have holes, too small, stained etc. You can use the discarded socks as dusters for your furniture, to make dog toys, make hand puppets or donate them to http://www.themismatchedsock.com/

Visit http://www.wikihow.com/Recycle-Your-Socks for more creative recycling ideas.

Once you have purged your socks, place a plastic or cardboard shoe box into your sock drawer to create a divider. Depending on the size of your drawer, multiple boxes can be used. Each section should contain different types of socks: sports, tights, color vs. white....whatever best fits your needs.