I am seriously on a roll! Kitchen silver and utensils drawers.

Update:  I have completed another drawer.  This is the silverware drawer.  Before I had a plastic silver tray that did not really hold all of my silverware.  So unorganized and junkie.  I am I the only one who has everything in every drawer?  Or am I the only one brave enough to show what is my mess?  I am not ashamed.  I would be more ashamed if I did not do anything about it now that I found some very inexpensive items. Don't judge me, LOL.

 

I purchased this wired baskets for Dollar Tree for $1.00 each.  I used 4.  

4 baskets = $4.00.  Less that half the price of another wire trays.

 

The title says a lot. I am seriously on a roll with this purging and organizing. In addition to cleaning out and organizing the mess that was my night stand. I also conquered 3 drawers in the kitchen.  Those three drawers it what I will talk about today.

As I have said in previous post, our lives were so busy we just live from day to day.  Barely enough time to clean, let alone organizing. However, looking back over the growing years of my kids, if we were more organized we would have not lost so much time looking for stuff.

But first let's talk bargain shopping.  The organizational items in this post came from Marshalls and Dollar Tree.  If you have a Dollar Tree in your area, they have a major stock of organizational items.  So check them out.  Prices are below the pics.

Before

 

As I sorted through the utensils, I found that I had multiples of a few items.  4 large turning forks, 3 sets of tongues,  2 garlic press (seriously, who needs 2 garlic presses), 3 manual can openers, 2 wine bottle openers (I don't even drink wine like that).  LOL and loads of chopsticks. I love chopsticks.  I don't know why but I do.

 

 

 After - Drawer 1

 I separated and arranged items in 2 drawers

This mess divider tray came from Marshalls - $6.99



After - Drawer 2

These are individual mess wire trays, I believe I got from Bed, Bath and Beyond many years ago.  I repurposed and reused them.

Please check back in a day or two for my next project.  Once I complete all these little draws and the closets, I will be moving on to some larger projects that I have on my list. Stay tuned.  I can't wait to do my office but that is a major project that will take time and a whole like of planning.  It has to right and functional the first time around.  At least close to it. 

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As always, Have a wonderful blessed day.

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The mess that is my night stand.

If your night stand is anything like my, what a disorganized mess.  There are things in my night stand that just should not be there.  It has become impossible to find things that I think I've placed in there. So today I am tackling the mess that is my night stand.

Top Drawer

Okay wait the entire night stand is not a mess.  See, these are pictures of the bottom two drawers, which I keep organized and neat most of the time.  The bottom drawer houses my PJs and a few other things. The middle drawers has my unmentionable, lol.  You know what they are.

To keep the middle drawer organized, I used small drawer organizer for my socks and medium plastic organizer for my bras and panties. I purchased the medium ones years ago from Bed, Bath and Beyond.  I purchased the small ones about two weeks ago from TJ Maxx.  There were 3 in a pack for $2.99.  I don't recall what I paid for the medium ones.  

Middle Drawer

 

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Bottom Drawer

 

I am a sockaholic. Yea, I said sock.  I loads of socks.  They are right now located in 3 places. I keep about 6 pair in my night stand, so if my feet get cold at night, they are close,  some are in my chest of drawers and some are ing a small basket in the closet.  With the exception of the few inmynight stand, my goal is to get them all in one place, in the chest of drawers. 

But today, I am working on my night stand. I've also have the shelf liner that I will be using in the bottom of the drawer. I purchased it from TJ Maxx for $5.99.  There are two rolls and it covers about 30 Sq feet.

I took everything out of the draw and wiped it out with a damp sponge.  Covered the bottom with the shelf liner and decided what I need beside my bed. 

And here is the finished product.  Drum roll please. 

After but before placing my ipad and laptop cooling pad in.

After placing ipad and laptop cooling pad in

 



After - Top of night stand

Need to find pics for the picture frames

Now if I can get out of the habit of throwing everything on the night stand at the end of the day.

Oh yea, by the way!  I've done so more organizing in the fridge.  Go to my refrigerator organizing blog for the update. 

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Enjoy and as always, have a wonderful day. 

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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.

 

 

 

storage jars



 

 

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!

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