Organize

When was the last time you went through your spices or pantry to see what you have hidden deep in the back of that shelf or cabinet? I guess I started "nesting" this week, if that's what you want to call it (since I didn't get to do it before Briggs got here b/c I was on bedrest).

Anyway, how many times have you bought a spice for one recipe and it calls for a teaspoon... then you never use it again until a year later when you make that same recipe? Here is a perfect example of that very thing and how many spices were expired when I really started looking..yikes!


And this is what my pantry looked like before I got into organize mode. I'm sure none of you have a pantry that looks this bad...

And this is what it looked like after I organized and cleaned out. It's amazing what kinds of things you can find and what you can be inspired to do with the food you already have.


Here is a better picture of the door organizer...sorry it's a little blurry, but was taken on my phone. I also moved the spices to this door. Someone once told me, you shouldn't have spices by your stove (which is where mine were) b/c the steam can cause them to become moist and lose their freshness.


I wanted to share another organizing tip. We had to move our office into our bedroom once Briggs came...so I hung an extra shoe wrack we had on the back of the door and put envelopes, extra pens and pencils, stationary, and other office supplies in the holes

And here is our hall closet..this is also a shoe organizer but is mesh so you can see what is in it. So in this one we have extra batteries, some of my craft stuff...you name it, it's probably in there.


It's hard to make the shoe hangers look all nice and neat...but you get the idea...it's much better than having all that stuff piled up in a drawer somewhere that you can't get to or use.

Hope some of these organizing tips helped somebody...they sure have made our life easier and helps us to see and use what we have.