Saturday, March 30, 2013

Budget Shopping!

 
 
Shopping trip to Target.  I am looking for storage items to organize my night stand. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Target: 

The Kitchen!

Yesterday, I started working on organizing my kitchen.  This too will be done in stages.  I will be an on going process.  Because I don't have everything, I think I need on hand to organize my entire house, I have to organize in stages.  I  need to plan what I am going to do, how to do it, have some idea what products I need and then shop around and purchase them.  Because I am trying to organize on a budget, well I guess I should since that is the name of the website, LOL, I have to take my time and find the best product at the most budget friendly price. 

So this is the first cabinet in my kitchen, that I tackled.  The first picture is not the cabinet at it's worst.  I had already cleaned it up a little before, before I decided to make this a full organizational over haul.

 
 
 
The next picture is the final organizational product.  If I must say so myself, it came out very well.
 
 
 

 
 
Where I got the products: 
Top Shelf:  Container on the left came my TJ Maxx.  Set of 5 seal tight containers for $14.99
White basket on left came from Big Lots many years ago.  I don't remember the price. I saw them at Target this week.

Middle Shelf: Assortment of jar.  The 3 larger jars on the back row came from Carolina Pottery in Smithfield, NC.  First one on the front row, I already had.  2 smaller ones on the back row and the smaller one on the front row came from TJ Maxx.  $2.00 each and the mid size one on the front row came also came from TJ Maxx and was $3.00  Guys, I had never thought about looking in TJ Maxx for such items.  I will not sleep on TJ Maxx anymore.

I made a video on the products that I purchased from TJ Maxx.  I will try to upload it soon. 

Bottom Shelf:  The 2 wicker baskets came in 2 different sets of 3 baskets, that I purchased many many years ago from Lowes Home Improvement.

You can also find nice food storage jars at Hobby Lobby, Michaels and Walmart.  Of the 3 I found Hobby Lobby to be the least expensive.

One cabinet down 10 to go. 

Comments, suggestions or questions are always welcomed.

As always have a wonderful day.  1LOVE!

http://www.getorganizedonabudget.com

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

T-Shirt organization

If you are like me you have loads of T-shirts.  I had two dressers that had three drawers each full of T-Shirts and boxes in my walk-in closet full of T-Shirts.  I purged and got rid of some of them.  But I don't know about you but I find it had to get rid of my t-shirts.  They are so comfortable and I love wearing them.  I will wear a t-shirts every day if I could. I do try my best.  They are my go to top. 

So, with so many t-shirts, I needed to find a way to organize them and contain them in one location. I can't say this is my original ideal.  I did a lot of research on the internet and this is the best organizational ideal for t-shirts, I came across.   Although I am still in the process of organizing them.  But I wanted to show you how I am organizing my t-shirts.

Below are instruction for organizing your t-shirts.  You need to start by folding your t-shirt.




 
1) Lay flat


 2) Fold each side about a third of the way to the center
3) Fold the sleeves back towards the outside


 

4)  Fold the t-shirts in half, bring the bottom up to the top



5) Fold the t-shirt in half again
 
 6) Shirts will stacked standing with the collar down


 

7)  Group colors together and stack in drawer
 
8)  only space for two stacks w/opening in the middle
9) made a third stack in the middle of the two.
 
 
I can get twice as many t-shirts in one drawer and they are easy to see, instead of picking up each shirt to find the one I am looking for. 
 
I think I need to purge my t-shirts a little more.  I have so many I had to focus them in the draw.  They look to stuffed in the drawer. 
 
Hope you enjoyed this tutorial.  I will  start making videos soon.  What would you like to see organized?  Do you need suggestion/tips on something?  Leave me a comment.  Please let me know what you think of my organizing.  Do you have an organizing tip, you would like to share? I will be more than happy to hear them.