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Creative and/or inexpensive storage solutionsWhat are some of your ways of storing "stuff?" Please share, especially those of you living in smaller homes. Here are a few ideas from me: For utensils not taking up space in a drawer or on a countertop, take a piece of copper pipe and hang it just below your cupboards. Attach S-hooks which fit over the pipe on one end and hold all utensils with holes in the end on the other end. For keeping ponytail bands sorted, a thread rack. For jewelry, instead of a large jewelry box, take a fabric-covered padded board of some sort (I've used a memo board with the criss-crossed ribbons), hang it on the wall, then attach necklaces and bracelets with straight pins. Very easy access and display, keeps chains straight. For earrings, use a piece of needlepoint plastic in a color you like. Figure out a way to hang the plastic. Keeps earrings very easy to access and organize. For pots and pans: a hanging pot rack is great. OK, this one isn't cheap, but I got mine on clearance, so I'm cheating. If I think of others, I'll add them.
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I throw everything,
pell mell into drawers and cupboards. That method's not working real well for me though since I can never find anything when I need it and stuff falls out on me when I open cupboards and my drawers are impossible to open. I did organize all of my books Saturday though. The bookshelf looked dangerously overflowing. I got rid of all the crap in my china hutch and filled it with books. We only keep the books we really like, and we must really be liking a lot of books lately!
When did the lemons learn the same creed as the sun?
When did smoke learn how to fly?
--Pablo Neruda
great suggestions
I am not so good at this, being a slob, but I have got one good one. I have a great trophy from a highschool boyfriend:a display dummy from a store. It is just a shoulders neck and head, covered with black faux velvet, and the neck is really long. I put all of my chokers and necklaces on it (OK, well, only some of them...the rest are strewm about...)
Sunflower
"Yoda of the vagina"
Sunflower the unflower
Mom's Tinfoil Hat
Foodie loves Picky
shoe hangers
over the pantry doors, over the bathroom doors, over the closet doors, for everything. you know, those plastic ones with all the pouches? they are amazing.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
read at your own risk
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Yes, we have two of these
in the kids' room. One on the wall, one behind the door. Great for all those little objects!
ooh, that's a good one.
ooh, that's a good one. Wish I had a pantry.
You know, I live in a decent size house, bedroom, office, and guestroom...but this whole freakin place has one closet. My last house was a cabin with a huge patchwork of add-on rooms (say, 5 weird bedrooms...) Not one freakin closet in the whole place! At this rate perhaps my next home will have 2.....
Natural Baskets
are my life, and can be acquired cheaply/free. Especially useful for our overgrown children's picture book collection, which never fit comfortably on a regular book shelf.
My daughter has been given hatboxes to store "stuff" out of sight (clutter holders).
I save tea canisters for change, hair bands, etc. They often have cute pics on them, so I don't mind looking at them lined up on a counter.
"Dare to be happy! ALways take a chance!
But never put frogs in your underpants!"
"Dare to be happy! ALways take a chance!
But never put frogs in your underpants!"
Yes on the pegboards
and the hooks in the garage. So useful. I also use baskets in my food cupboard.