Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Teresa's Pantry needed a face lift

It's a new year and one of my goals for this year is to organize  some of the problem ares in my house. I'm starting with the kitchen and working my way through. So I took a trip to our local Dollar store with my Ezer friend and purchased some containers, shelves and contact paper and some other unrelated crafty goodness (that's another post). I emptied all my baking supplies into glass and plastic containers and put other things like chocolate chips and nuts into plastic shoe box containers.I placed things like instant oatmeal and hot chocolate packets into a wicker basket. I used three tier shelves for my cans and I took a rolling shelf from another room of the house and put my potatoes and onions on it. Being we're a family of six there was a lot of food that I just couldn't do much with. So it wasn't exactly how I pictured it in my mind. Probably because I had all these beautiful pictures of immaculate pantry's that I found online in there. So enough talking and on with the pics.
                                                               
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I even made some labels with the left over pieces of contact paper.

So what do you think? You probably had this image in your head of my pantry being this fabulous room because of the name of my blog. Sorry to disappoint you. This is the internet and things aren't always what they are in real life. It's like the size of a small closet.Or maybe your thinking "wow she's a slob". Whatever the case I  now have piece of mind knowing that  I can walk in my pantry and find what I need and not have things fall on me when I take something off the shelf. It was not a pretty picture people. It was a bad scene for everyone.

Oh yah and I also bought one of these things to put my the lids for my pots and pans in. Before they were just laying on the shelf in my cabinet piled on top of each other. I know, I'm a genius. Right!

2 comments:

  1. Awesome T! You were able to get all those containers at the Dollar Store! I'm impressed and inspired. My pantry area definitely needs some organizing.

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