Week 1: The Pantry

These cabinets that constitute our pantry are great, and were some definite starts to organization.  Not sure what happened there.  But now every time we come home from the grocery store we just squeeze stuff in the best it will fit.  We don't know what is in there or how old it is.  Pulling out appliances to use is annoying because things fall or you have to take our five other items to get to the one you want.  I spent $21 on three glass jars and four plastic shoe boxes.  I used mason jars and other bins already on hand to do the rest.  I used bins to group like items together in the pantry and transferred flour, sugar, and the like to glass jars.  I labeled most of the bins (more for my husband than for myself) and organized the appliances so that one could be gotten to without having to pull out multiple.  I also relocated a few less used items (large containers, vases, etc) to an unused lazy susan on the other side of the kitchen. This freed up more room in the pantry cabinets for the items we need to access more regularly.  We also got rid of a lot of expired products.  There is also room to grow both for items in jars, canned goods, or other items we might need to store in the pantry in the future.  Week 1:  complete.