Kim Craig, 26, admits that her closet, with its mateless shoes and skirtless suit jackets, was the source of her chronic tardiness. “I’m a single mom, but you’d think three people had their clothes in there,” say the public relations account executive. Small handbags and silkly sleeveless tops fallen from their hangers would disappear into a black hole of broken stilettos and shopping bags, never to be seen again.

On the next pages, the solutions that saved Kim’s closet.