Stumbled on a 2016 guide about mudroom storage and it wrecked my whole setup

I used to just throw all my coats and boots in a pile by the back door, no system at all. Last week I clicked on some old blog post from a guy in Portland who mapped out his whole mudroom with hooks at different heights and labeled bins. I tried copying it with $30 worth of stuff from the hardware store, but now my family just ignores the bins and drops stuff on the floor anyway. The hooks work okay for jackets, but the shoe rack I built keeps tipping over when someone grabs a pair. Has anyone else tried a organized mudroom system that actually stuck around longer than a month?

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brian30318d ago

Man, honestly, maybe the problem is you overthinking this whole thing. That pile on the floor worked fine for years, right? Then some guy from Portland with a blog and a perfectly lit photo makes you feel bad about it, so you drop $30 on a system that now just gets in the way and tips over. My buddy did the same thing with labeled bins for his kids' backpacks, and within a week they were using the bins as stepping stools to reach the cookies. The floor pile doesn't fight back, doesn't tip over, and you never have to explain to your family where the left boot goes. Sometimes the old chaos method is just more reliable lol.

the_wendy18d ago

You know what, I used to be ALL about the labeled bins and the matching hooks and the whole aesthetic system. I thought people with floor piles were just lazy or something. But then my cat knocked over my entire shoe rack three times in one week and I just gave up. Now the boots live in a heap by the door and you know what? It works. No one trips, no one fights the system, and I don't have to spend my Sunday afternoon reorganizing something that's gonna get wrecked by Tuesday. You actually just made me realize I was the Portland blog guy in my own head for way too long.