One of my favorite organizing products are 3M Command hooks. If you are not already familiar with them, seriously, this is going to be life changing. If you know about them, hopefully I will share a new use with you. 3M is the same company that makes removeable Post-it notes and their revolutionary product allows you to hang hooks without drilling or hammering and they come off cleanly without damaging the wall or surface whether it’s paint, wood or wallpaper. I swear I am not being paid to endorse their product, I just love ’em! Each package comes with the special adhesive strips and additional strips can be purchased. Hooks can be moved and repositioned as needed. Small hooks hold up to 1 pound, medium hooks up to 2 pounds and large hooks up to 3 pounds. They come in clear, white plastic, colored plastic, brushed nickel and silver. Here are some uses in our home.
Kitchen
- Inside kitchen cabinet doors to hang pot holders and aprons.
- Under kitchen sink cabinet for dishwashing gloves, water bottle brush and mini dustpan and broom.
- Inside cabinet doors for stand mixer accessories.
Bathrooms
- Medium command hooks are used for each child’s face cloth.
- Mini command hooks for the kids’ flossers. God forbid they use one another’s flosser and get cooties!
- Mini command hooks mounted horizontally for their toothbrushes.
- Various hooks inside the medicine cabinet (are they called that anymore??) door to hang my eyelash curler, tweezers, cuticle scissors, black hair ties, “fancy” hair ties…. I could go on and on.
- Inside the bathroom closet door to hang my hairdryer and another to hang my curling iron (I just drape the cord around the hook once or twice).
- Inside bathroom vanity door for girls’ hair ties and headbands although headbands seem to reproduce in our home so we’ve moved on to another system (more on that in next post).
Kids’ bedrooms
- 3M hooks in my son’s room to hang various medals and participation ribbons (don’t get my husband started talking about that 🙂
- Medium hooks to hang baseball hats.
- Numerous 3M hooks, various sizes in my daughters’ bedroom and my bedroom on the side of our dressers to hang necklaces and bracelets.
- Small hooks inside my closet for thin belts.
Closet
- Two large command hooks are on the inside of the hall closet. One is designated for my purse and the other is for things I need to return/exchange.
- A few other hooks are for broom, Swiffer and dustpan.
Hallway (we don’t have a mudroom)
- 3 large hooks have withstood the test of time and not-so-gentle kid use. They’ve been up for over a year and are for kids’ packpacks
Office
- Inside closet door or side of desk to store frequently used charger cables
- Mini command hooks to keep cords/cables along the wall instead of jumbled on the floor
I am probably missing a few here and there, but I highly recommend that you stock up on a few packs in different sizes. It wasn’t that long ago that my husband was out playing paddle, kids were in bed and I was organizing the bathroom. I put them on the inside of the medicine cabinet and I went to bed a happy girl. He’s playing paddle again tonight, I’ll have to see if I can find some more uses for them!!
