Closets

I am making an effort to reorganize in hopes that it will help me to unclutter my life. And although I have to say I am generally much cleaner than in my college days, one major impediment to my cleanliness success is the complete lack of closets in my apartment.

Yupp, in a fact that would horrify most American women, we have absolutely no closets in our entire apartment! I mean, ok, we have one tiny pantry-like thing in our kitchen, but it is not very large or deep, and contains mostly a dustpan and some plastic bags. Not so exciting.

What's weird though is that it is a sort of normal feature of German apartments. No closets. It's one of those weird cultural differences, that no one really knows about unless they live somewhere and no one can really figure out.

The problem at hand though is to figure out where to put my excess clothing (damn you, oh so tempting european fashion!) and important papers...