I love to organize.  Seriously.   This weekend I dug in and did some major cooking and some major organizing.

It feels like after grocery shopping, I come home from the store and toss everything into cabinets, freezer, and fridge.  It's an organized chaos and it was driving me nuts.  I was leafing through the dollar store flyer and saw my answer.  Easter tubs 4/1.00.  Who can argue with such a wonderful thing.

My freezer now looks like this:


The fridge was a little more complicated but now there is somewhere to put everything.  The bottom tub is hard to read but it contains "sandwich fixings".  Now when I want a sandwich I can just yank that tub out and it has everything in it that I'd put on a sandwich in one spot.  No rooting, digging or moving things to get it all.


I live in a small apartment so space is at a premium.  I have to use everything I can reach (which isn't a whole lot) so I store things on top of my fridge as well.  I have a magazine holder laid on its side to wrangle my saran wrap, wax paper, aluminum foil..etc.  I also put one of the smaller tubs up there to hold my dishtowels.



My food cabinet now looks like this.  I haven't made the labels for the tubs in here yet.  I'll take care of that on Monday at work with my epic label maker.


My Earl Grey doesn't get put away.  I use it too often and that will be its spot until I come up with an idea for a 'tea center' somewhere in the kitchen.  Maybe a nice set of shelves above the sink....