Another organizing idea you might need more than you think. It’s simple and easy to follow and get some awesome ideas for your house.
Arts & Crafts
1. Group your yarn by color on an unused wall-mounted wine rack.
2. Sort small office supplies into muffin cups. More stylish than plastic drawer dividers.
3.) Separate colored pencils, markers, or crayons by color by taping together old Crystal Lite containers.
4. Screw peanut butter jars to the bottom of your garage shelves to keep nails in check. Direction: Screwed the lids into the wooden shelf that sits above the worktop and then simply fill your jars with whatever small you need to store and screw the jar onto the mounted lid. Out of the way and pretty organized.
5. String up a rainbow of ribbon spools with some chains and curtain rods. You could also use dowels, and co-opt a few of the rods to hang wrapping paper. You will need to ensure the bars don’t slip out of the chain by putting some kind of plug on the closures, like rubber bands.
6. File circular needles away in a binder full of 4-pocket organizers. You can also write down the needle’s size and length on a card behind it.
7. Re-pot your glitter into salt and pepper shakers. If you can find a little caddy to hold them all, that would be awesome.
8.) Paint PVC pipe to separate your underwear. Direction: Measure how tall is your drawer and cut a half inch shorter your PVC pipes in width. You can use a piece of wood and some clamps onto your saw guide to cut your pipes all the same size and chop them. Next, you can paint them with different colors and glue them together.
9.) Loop shower curtain rings on an over-the-door towel rack to organize your scarf collection. You may also use hangers.
The Kitchen
10.) You can stack spaghetti boxes in a magazine holder. It depends on how much spaghetti you need to keep in your house at any given time.
11.) So you can use a magazine holder as well to keep your plastic wraps, foil, and cutting boards organized.
12.) Keep your Keurig cup drawer in check with egg cartons.
13.) Build a big jar shelf to decorate with your beans, snacks, and pasta. They are very safe especially if you have a toddler or clumsy person at home or even in an earthquake situation! It’s difficult to knock the jars off of the shelves unless you physically pick them up, and throw them on the floor.
14.) Customize drawer organizers for all of your kitchen utensils. The problem with premade drawer organizers is that the slots are never where you want them to be. Custom drawer organizers are expensive and can take a while to come in if you custom order them.
15.) Sort plastic lids by size in a dish drying rack or old CD rack. Started with the larger lids on the right and worked to the left with the smaller lids. It’s a lot easier to pick the correct lid and not mess inside the cabinet. You don’t have to take the basket out to look through all of them. A simple tip to help you get organized on a budget!
16. Dedicate a drawer to spices. If you have enough spices, maybe it’s worth sacrificing a drawer. Here is what you need to make cute permanent spice jars.
1. Spice Jars. 2. Vellum Paper. 3. Adhesive sheets. 4. Paper cutter. 5. Printer. First, you need to create a template for your larger rounded tops as well as my strips. Then you print the templates onto the vellum. Using the paper cutter, cut on either side of the black lines. You can use a circle cutter for the circles, or you can cut them out by hand. Next, You need to turn the strips and circles into stickers. If you don’t have a fancy sticker machine (the one they use at the craft stores), you can use those adhesive sheets. Here is how they work. You strip the backing off the sheet lay a few of your strips onto the sticky part and then cut them out. (You can also cut the adhesive sheets into the same size as your strips first) Now you have a sticker! So you are ready to put the stickers, just remove the second strip from the back and apply the sticker to the jar. Work from the middle around to apply the sticker without any bubbles. When your jars are finished, fill them with spices! You have to love them. You can alphabetize them or organize them by color or however, you like.
17.) Line a vintage tea tin with scrapbook paper, and make small dividers labeled with types of tea. You can find the simple tutorial at hiandhello.com
Bathroom
18.) Hang a tiered fruit basket with an “S” hook to give bath toys a happy home. If you’re worried about rust, spray lightly with a corrosion inhibitor or anti-rust spray paint.
19.) Give everyone at home their own jar for their toothpaste and toothbrush. You can give a mini bucket or cartoon chart.
20.) Group nail polish by color in a shoe organizer, (some people don’t put their shoes away anyway). So instead of keeping it useless, you can get some use out of it. So you can use either one, jewelry organizer or shoe organizer, they both would work well!
21.) Store your makeup brushes in a toothbrush holder. But, please keep them clean. acter cup. Credit goes to agirlandagluegun.com
Around The House
22.) Store bobby pins in a magnetic paper clip holder. Works infinitely better than a magnetic strip in your drawer.
23.) Corral your hair ties with a carabiner.
24.) Pair your earrings up in an ice cube tray.
25.) Pack jewelry in a daily pill organizer when you travel. You can find these containers at your local pharmacy for just a couple of bucks.
26.) Cover a corkboard in linen for a flexible necklace display. You will see all your necklaces and bracelets displayed well and you won’t forget wearing them.
- Cover a corkboard that has a wood frame with fabric. The corkboard itself costs $5 at Walmart or you can find it for a few bucks at any thrift store. You could also use a staple gun. There’s no need to be neat because no one will see that.
- Add furniture tacks or thumbtacks to the front of the board, evenly spaced.
- For a simple decorative touch, layered on a piece of organza ribbon on the left side.
- Last but not least, add a sawtooth picture hanger. That’s it!
27.) Fill a bean bag covered with stuffed animals. You won’t have toys laying on the floor and your kiddos won’t whine about wanting bean bag chairs anymore, either.
28.) Pull out your serving plate stand that you never use and turn it into a craft caddy. And some useless wedding gifts can have a second lives too.
29. Label toy drawers with photos of the toys to make clean-up time easy peasy. There are more cute playroom ideas at familyeverafterblog.com
30. Transform an ordinary Lack table into a Lego table and build magnetic storage containers on the sides. You know making the Lego table itself is pretty self-explanatory. Assemble a small table (you can buy at IKEA Lack table for $8). Get a Gorilla glue for Lego base plates to the top (make sure to add legos to all of the seams. On one side, there’s a row of hanging buckets, perfect for storing project leftovers. And on the other side, there’s a magnet strip, complete with magnetic tins for Lego storage.
31. Stash game pieces in plastic bags behind the game board. Brilliant if your kids own tons of board games.