If you're anything like me, over the years, you've accumulated many pairs of shoes that are now living (often times worn only once) in boxes on the top shelf of your closet.

Frequently, they're in boxes from another pair of shoes, so, when you're looking for a particular pair, style or color, you have to take them all down and go through each box to find what you're looking for. Annoying, isn't it? I came across this amazingly clever idea for organizing your shoes on the website of a woman who is way more creative than I am. First, take and print out a photo of each pair of said shoes.

You want them all to be generally the same in size and background. I set up the camera on the tripod to make everything consistent. It also made the task a breeze since all I had to do was swap out each pair of shoes and press a button. It might take a little bit of time and effort to get the print size worked out, but once you determine what works best for you, the rest of them are easy. I reduced my photos in size a bit and printed two images on each sheet of 5 x 7" paper. I found the finished 3 1/2 x 5" size was just right for almost all of my shoeboxes. After printing, cut up your photographs appropriately.

If you can, I recommend printing without the white borders because they're annoying as frell to cut off. Finally, once you have all of your lovely shoe pictures ready to go, tape them to the outside of the appropriate shoebox and voila!

You can now see exactly which shoes are in which box with ease, even if they're on the topmost shelf of your closet.