Cheap and Easy Ways To Organize

By: Jen Shircel

If you’re a mom you’ve used many baby food jars or containers, you’ve thrown out countless ice cream pails and recycled plenty applesauce jars. Not anymore! Reuse them!

Baby food jars make great jewelry boxes for earrings that are always lost, rings that are only worn with certain outfits or all those barrettes for little girls hair.

Baby food jars are also great in the garage! They easily organize nails, screws and bolts. They’re the perfect size, you can see into them, they stack up on each other and they have a cover in case they would fall. They are also perfect for the home office to hold pens, paper clips, pins, tacks and rubber bands.

Those plastic baby food containers make great tupperware! I fill them up with little snacks and then toss them in my purse to take along.

Applesauce jars work in the same sort of way, but for bigger items. I decorated two of them with ribbons and stickers and made banks for each of the boys. This way they always get a glimpse of what’s inside without having to dump everything out.

I’ve also used applesauce jars to store away extra pens, pencils and other miscellaneous office supplies. But I have to say that my favorite way to organize is to use ice cream pails. Ice cream pails are perfect for all the kids crayons and markers. They also have a cover and a handle, which makes then easy to stack and carry.

Ice cream pails nicely hold all of your son’s matchbox cars or your daughters Barbie clothes and accessories. They are also great in the garage to keep together all the car cleaning supplies or in the kitchen to organize rags, sponges and other cleaning products. Ice cream pails are perfect for all my hand held gardening tools and gloves. Plus, once they are decorated, ice cream pails can make a very cute flower pot!

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