I don’t know about you, but lately it seems like I just can’t keep up with everything.  It’s true, I’m drowning in clutter.

By far the biggest culprit for me is paper, I’m one of the few folks who could care less if the post office stops delivering on Saturday.  Bonus!!  One less day of useless crap that I don’t know what to do with.  That being said, there are other things that just seem to pile up.

Take the leashes, collars and harnesses.

Since Sampson has still not been cleared for stairs or unleashed supervision, there is only one door in our house that he can use.  It’s our French door, which we typically don’t use.  Since Sampson is a GINORMOUS puller, he’s on  a harness, but he also needs to wear his collar with his tags on it.  The harness we use has a special leash, which I use when we do our twice daily walks.  IF we are only going outside to potty, I use his daily leash and clip it to his collar.

When Delilah comes with us in the morning, I also put her on harness.  I’m pulled in two directions as it is, and the harnesses help minimize the pulling.  Delilah’s harness does not have a special leash, just her every day leash.

The French door that we use to exit the house sits right near the pool table.  When we walk in and I remove harnesses and leashes, they get tossed into a big pile on the pool table.  While it’s nice to have everything in one spot, it seemed like every time I reached for a leash, I was grabbing the wrong one, or digging it out of a jumbled pile.

I said something to Hubby and he said, “I was thinking of that, we could nail some hooks to the wall and use them to organize the leashes.”

As soon as I heard, “Nail,” I stopped listening.  I have a thing about putting holes in my walls.  I know it’s super weird, but the reality is, I’ve hardly hung anything on my walls that required a new nail hole, in the entire 7 years I’ve lived here.  At our old house, Sampson was trained to ring a bell to go outside and potty and that was nailed to the door frame,  but in our new house, I refused to put a nail or screw in my beautiful woodwork.  The bell sits forlornly on the bookshelf next to the door, sadly collecting dust.

So there I sat on Sunday contemplating exactly how I could organize all our dog walking supplies, without making a hole in my wall!

Here’s what I came up with .

This container was sitting in a pile designated for a tag sale.  It’s an old photograph organizer that I bought from one of those scrap book home parties.  I pulled some of the dividers out and made it so it has four compartments.  It holds, Sampson’s harness and special leash as well as Delilah’s harness and every day leash.

The container is sitting on the stool, along with Sampson’s every day leash, and the stool is sitting right next to the door.  Since Sampson’s harness and leash are black it’s easy to tell them apart from Delilah’s.  It has made the pool table so much cleaner and while it hasn’t cut down on the other, every day clutter, at least there is one area that looks fresh and organized.

Do you have a problem keeping leashes organized?  How do you organize all your dog walking equipment?