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It’s a good day for a blog as it is one of my favorite topics! PLANNING AND ORGANIZING! I just get a thrill out of trying new ways to stay organized, with summer on it’s way…. I hope to get what I can done in the house as I am outside as much as I can be in the short summer months here in Saskatchewan.
As part of the March challenge it was to organize the house room to room or category by category. Since for years things got shifted so much from here to there, I am doing a little of both ways.
Something I wanted to share is how just by relocating something it can be a new thing! What do I mean? Let me tell you!
I lack storage in my house, and as you mammas know storage is a must with a growing family, with all the hand me downs that get saved for the next kid it’s easy to run out of space! My solution for this at this point of life anyways was to add some, with what I have to work with.
There is a closet in my daughter’s room, she also had 2 dressers, one which was not the best as the drawers tended to fall out when it was opened. Not the best for a kid and daily use. So what did I do? I slid the dresser into the closet.
As there is only 2 closets in the house the one in her room is a storage one instead of her things.
Now in the closet I have just in the dresser, the top 2 drawers are for extra sheets for the kid’s beds more for summer as they are the thinner sheets. Then I now have a art and craft drawer that helps with all the stuff kept here and There! Then the bottom drawer I have paper, folders, dividers etc. This makes it so handy to either put the stuff in one spot as I come across more going through the house, but also to know exactly where it is located!
This is what I mean when I say moving something can make it have a whole new purpose!
Give it a try, have something that’s just not cutting it anymore? Try looking at it in a new way! Move it, flip it, add organizers into it! There is always more then one way to use something, sometimes you just need to think outside of the box!
Try seeing what you can reuse to make something work better for you, let me know how it worked out in the comments down below I would love to hear about it!
Till next week have fun organizing, you have more handy things then you think if you want to see them, so have fun and don’t forget to think outside the box.
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Hello and good morning welcome to Its A Mom Life, it’s Sunday fun day! What better day to talk about organizing and what better thing to start organizing before spring then the freezer! 😨
Do you know what is in the back,or the very bottom of that ice box? How often do you get into it? Do you make it to the bottom, or the back? It can be a scary thing in that dark space!
There is a lot of time I have no clue what, or how much I have in there. It can get frustrating when it comes to the months that I am trying to stretch my groceries. The months like this is when on love my freezer inventory, however you must keep up on it, which can be hard when you are in and out of it daily.
With that it can be nice to have it organized to be able to see everything and/or have it categorized so you can find stuff easier! With that said for this organizing blog I would like to share some easy inexpensive ways to keep it a little more organized! The bins used are all from the dollar tree!
So if your ready grab a sweater and some gloves and let’s dive into the freezer!
I have a stand up freezer and a little apartment size. I will show you how I organize the bigger one… the standing freezer! I will show this one and organizing, as my little one is organized by categories, so it has bags of peeled sliced apples, and peaches from the summer. Some extra baking snacks for the kid’s and just a couple baged veggies from the garden that can’t be flattened as well!
So back to the big one. On each shelf I try to have the same category items to a degree, as other stuff will get where it fits but can be recognized by the outside packaging. You will see what I mean.
The top shelf I have for some meat the bigger meats, and any other meats that are not steaks and ground beef. They have bins they go in. This is pork, chicken, but there is also wild meat but in one spot, as we try to not use it on daily bases and our roasts as they take more space. I also put some larger pans of freezer meals here.
The second shelf I have bagged veggies from the summer in bins. This way bags don’t get pushed to the back and covered in snow build up.
Then we go to the third shelf this has the small bags of fruit in one side in a bin, and larger bags of fruit on the side. This also has some bags of pre made foods here also.
The last wire shelf has a bins, this is one for ground beef and one for steaks, this also is set up where the steak cuts are in the same row in the bin, so grabbing them can be easier and I don’t have to look at each package. As they are in “piles”.
Then the bottom, there can be a lot of room here but, having the stuff stay and not fall on your toes when you open the door is the problem.
With this I have some cabbage rolls in the back, they fit nice and can stacked up. Then in front in have a simple lid organizer from the dollar store. This holds flattened bags perfect they can be in a row but not fall. This I have pumkin and shredded carrots.
There is some containers of premade cookie dough from a fundraiser. I usually have cookie dough logs I pre make, and fit nicely in the door instead! Then the door I typically put the waffles, and pancakes, dessert breads, and i have some large bags of blueberries and Saskatoon! 😁
So that is my stand up freezer, I look forward to organizing it more, with the upcoming blog challange hit that follow button to make sure to catch it, and join in! Till next Sunday, try thinking of how to make your freezer more handy.  Let me know how you organize your freezer? A little can go a long way!