Well, it's not the whole closet, but recently my son decided he wanted fresh new white sheets and he did need a new comforter. Our sheets are old or hand-me-downs, so I thought it would be nice to give him some new items. He's also 17 and moving out soon and it's a good time to set him up.
We only use fitted bottom sheets along with comforters. We wash the comforter cover and the bottom sheet when we wash. I had read a great idea here where you put the sheets inside the pillowcases and have ready bedding changes but they kept getting lumpy and falling over in my closet.
When I bought the new sheets and two extra to make an inexpensive comforter cover in the color he wanted, they all came in those plastic zippered things. We only keep two fitted sheets per bed - one for using and one for changing when the other's being washed.
Voila! A total of 5 sheets purchased gave me storage for one queen fitted sheet and 4 pillowcases, one full fitted and 2 pillowcases, one twin fitted and 1 pillowcase, plus two extra for the extra top sheets we use now and then.
They are labeled and stacked in less than HALF the area they used to take up before.
I did the same thing with all the blankets we had - put them in large zippered bags we had gotten earlier with comforters (most were gifts).
Each of us has two bath towels in our own color which we keep in our bathrooms and we only have 4 guest towels in the linen closet. There's a pile of beach towels also, and the floor has all the sleeping bags and mats.
Now there's a whole shelf that's empty in there! I can't believe how those bags have made so much room!
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