Organization

After wanted to switch around my cupboards and pantry, I finally finished it today.  Here is what they looked like before.

This cupboard was supposed to be for canned food.  I guess this was my pantry because I really didn't have one in my house.  My whole body just aches looking at this now.  What a disaster.  As you can tell there was a little order to it and then I ran out of room so I just threw things in the cupboard. 

Again, since I didn't have a pantry, I used cupboards for everything.  This cupboard had my baking goods as well as pasta and boxed items.  Again, it is another disaster. 

This is my linen closest.  Another mess!  This closest is around the corner of the kitchen.  

So the work began.  I cleaned out all the cupboards and the linen closest.  I thought I was never going to finish.  I laid everything out on my counters in the kitchen.  I sorted through the linen closest deciding what I wanted to keep and what I didn't want any more.  I became very overwhelmed with all the pantry items and didn't know where to even begin figuring out where to put everything.  After a day of thinking about it, I decided to go to the store and buy some tubs to help me organize.  I want to be an organized person, but gosh!, it is expensive to get items to help you organize.  Anyways, I looked at the big mess of everything all laid out all over my kitchen.  I grouped like things together.  Then I put items in tubs that I bought.  I then printed out labels for the tubs and laminated them.  I stuck the labels on with double sided poster tape.  Once I got started sorting the items into groups, it made it easier and seemed less stressful.  Here is what it looks like now.

Are
you
ready
to 
see
it?

Get
ready
to
be...

jealous!  (just kidding)

 I can't believe how much better it looks.  I will be able to find things easily now.  I feel like a weight has been lifted off of my shoulders.

Organizing and Deals

Happy Sunday!!  Why is it that the weekend seems to go way too fast?  I always just need one more day to my weekend.  I think that would help me finish everything I need to each week.  

Anyways I had a lazy Saturday but a very productive Sunday.  My Hubbie and I filed through our paper clutter.  The paper clutter on our kitchen counter was getting out of control!  I wanted to get a new file cabinet because the plastic bin I had cracked and was letting all the files fall out.  I kept searching for a file cabinet but nothing really popped out at me.  So, after thinking about it and after rearranging my son's room and seeing someone else use a chest (Thanks Pinterest), I thought why not use my son's toy chest that is just sitting around.  So then I went to Office Max and got new files and a file rod.  My Hubbie put the rod together and placed it in the toy chest.  We grabbed the paper clutter from the kitchen and started organizing it.  This is how the toy chest looks now!  We had some extra room in the chest so we put the legal sized folders towards the front.  Yay!!  Now I have a file cabinet for the price of the folders and a lot more space on my kitchen counter.   

Sunday is usually the day I go grocery shopping.  I wasn't able to go last week because I was babysitting my mom's dogs so I went today.  I knew I wasn't going to do very well with savings this week because it didn't seem like I had that many coupons for what was on sale.  Here is a picture of what I bought. 

I spent $85.62 and saved $53.79.  I guess it isn't too bad because I still saved money.