How To Organize Your School Locker

Even those lacking in basic organizational skills should find organizing your school locker to be a relatively easy task.  After all, there you are, day one of the school year, and your school locker is an empty cavern staring back at you.  These days, school lockers are slim, trim, no nonsense containers allowing little room for frivolous storage of unnecessary extras.

With any luck, you and your locker are an exclusive couple, without the burden of a locker partner.  This makes matters much simpler. Stand back, take a look inside and get a feel for what you have to work with in your private storage area.

Basically, you are looking at a small amount of floor space, two hooks on the side of the locker and two shelves at head level or above.  If this describes your locker, you're one of the lucky ones.  You have more than ample space available for the necessities of the school world. Determine right from the start that there should be a place for everything and everything should occupy that place.  Shun the idea of chaos in your locker organization at all costs.

Early in the school year you probably don't have a jacket to hang on one of those hooks.  That's okay.  Just remember the essential function of an organized school locker is having a place to hang your hat, so to speak, and your coat.  Leave at least one hook free for that purpose. On another hook you may want to drape the shoulder strap of your backpack and its contents between classes, or at other times when you don't need your full arsenal of school supplies.

The floor is the storage area for your athletic shoes, boots in the winter or a spare pair of shoes to change into on days where some after school activity keeps you on campus and you want to change your look from the garb of the day.

Use the shelves for extra textbooks that don't travel with you to every class of the day.  Keep a plastic storage container available on the shelf to hold homework assignments, lab reports or other miscellaneous lab or shop supplies.  You'll need to keep that stuff handy and not drag it back and forth from home every day.

Organizing your school locker is simple.  Keeping it organized shouldn't require the organizational skills of Martha Stewart.  Be sure to hang a poster on the inside door for that personal touch.