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- Hi everyone, I'm Melea.
Welcome back to another episode of my show.
Today we are talking about organizing.
Something that we all need to do
and this is the time of year to do it
in order to do it super cheap.
So I thought I would share some of the ways that
we organize some of my kids art supply cabinet.
The ways we did it for cheap, where we found them,
some cool functional ideas to make it all work.
Anyway, hopefully it will help you guys with
your own house and organizing and maybe
your own kids supplies.
The best part is, is these ideas can be used
anywhere in your house, they don't have to be
used in a cabinet or for art supplies
like I'm showing you guys in this video
but either way they should help you guys
save some money and get organized
at the same time.
So let's get started.
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Okay, so we're talking about organizing today
because January and February is the time
to get organized with your house.
We kind of get in this after Christmas
spring cleaning mode.
It's also when all the stores do all their
crazy discounts on storage bins,
organizing supplies, all the Christmas
organizing stuff goes on clearance
so you can use some of those if you want to
but as I was thinking gosh what in my house
can I organize to show these guys
how to do it for cheap?
My kids art supply closet.
Guys, it's so bad.
Here is a picture of what it looked like.
As you can see there are, I mean it's super messy.
They just throw things in there,
they don't put things away.
And mostly because there's nowhere to put anything
right, they just kind of throw it in there
because everything doesn't have a place.
Once everything has a place, then it's gonna
be easy for them to put away.
I don't know about you guys but I really like my
kids to be able to be as independent as possible,
get things out by themselves, put everything away
by themsevles, pick up by themselves.
It helps them out and it helps mommy out too,
because then I don't have to do everything, right?
So I'm going to show you guys the cabinet right now.
You saw what it looked like.
This is what it looks like now.
Totally different, right?
Like it looks totally different.
So I'm going to show you guys what I did exactly
to make this all work, because I think you guys
are going to die because a lot of these solutitons
were only a dollar and I did not find them
at the dollar store.
So let me show you guys what I did,
so you guys can incorporate some of this stuff
into your house and hopefully save some money
and get organized.
So first of all I want to show you guys all
this stuff.
All these super cute pails were a dollar at Target.
I found a bunch of them in the Target dollar spot,
I also found them back in the party supply section,
so if you can't find them in the Target dollar
spot, go back there and check.
But I got them in a bunch of different colors
so I could show you guys what they looked like.
It kind of makes it a little more fun and colorful.
I have crayons in here, I have markers in one,
I have stamps in one, I have pencils.
I have a little bit of everything.
The reason why I did this for my kids at least
is because sometimes they'll be like,
hey mom, can we color?
and I'll be like yeah, and they say,
but can we color with markers this time?
And if I'm being a nice mom,
because I hate my kids coloring with markers
because they get on everything, I'll say,
yep, you can go get the marker tin.
So all I have to do is come and get the marker tin
and they can take it over and they can color.
Or I'll say nope, today you guys
have to color with crayons.
So they can come and get a crayon tin and
it's super easy for little kids to put everything away
because they just have to put everything back
in the tin and put it back on the shelf.
Another thing I want to show you guys are these
stainless steel tins.
These are from IKEA.
They're about 4 bucks I want to say, 4.99
or 3.99 or something like that.
I like these because they're not
your typical plastic bins.
They're easily changeable into other parts
of your house for home decor.
So when you're done using them here
you can interchange them other places.
Okay so the next shelf is all paper stuff,
so the first thing I want to
show you guys is this.
I came up with this idea on my own
and I am not crafty at all.
There might be an easier way to do this
you guys can comment if there is,
but this is what I did.
So as you guys notice right here,
this is a metal rod that I actually
purchased at a Home Depot.
It was like $2.79, super cheap.
All I did was I cut it and I put it
in the little holes that you guys have
on the side of the cabinets for shelving,
and just slammed it in there,
and put my roll of butcher paper on there.
The butcher paper I actually got at IKEA.
It's I want to say like three or four bucks.
This way if I need butcher paper
I can just take it off and just use it.
Then it's high enough up out of the way
that I can grab it if I need to
but I can still put things underneath.
This is where my paper is.
You can find things in the filing section
for super cheap, even at the dollar store
if you wanted.
This one I actually got at Target
and I want to say it was about five bucks.
I like it because I like stainless steel
for some reason so I get a lot of
stainless steel stuff.
And then all my construction paper
and things like that for the kids.
When they want to color they can come
and get the paper and the coloring supplies
and I can be like, go color.
And when you're done you have to put it all back
and they know exactly where it goes.
That's my most favorite part about organizing
is the kids know exactly where everything goes, right?
Okay so the next shelf I actually bought
these ones at Target.
These were the most expensive thing
out of everything I purchased in here,
but again, the design of these buckets
is so much different than what I have seen.
I believe the Hobby Lobby has something
similar right now.
These are plastic, they come in a bunch
of different colors.
I saw white, black, like a teal color,
I believe gray at Target. These were about
5.50 I believe.
Again, I think it's something I can use multiple places
so I wasn't worried about that,
obviously I'm not going to spend $10.00
on a small container, but five bucks was great.
So as you guys see, hopefully it won't all spill out,
this is all the Play-Doh that my kids have,
so I put all the Play-Doh in this area.
On my top shelf I also have all of the
playing cards or things like that
that the kids might want to play with.
A lot of these I actually found in the Target
dollar spot, so don't forget to look there
because some of my kids' favorite games
are actually from there.
The dominoes game, the Frozen dominoes
game is from there.
I have Playskool flash cards that I got from there.
Doc McStuffins playing cards,
Minnie Mouse playing cards.
I even found things like Old Maid at the dollar spot
so there's lots of things at Target
that you guys can grab.
So I put all those games in here so
when they say hey mom can we play a game
yeah, you can go get it.
On the top shelf, and if you'll notice it's
on the top shelf for a reason is all of
the glue, and the tape and the scissors,
and hole punches.
This is like a level three item,
I guess is why I put it on the top shelf,
because these items they can not play with
unless they ask mommy, and they know
the top shelf is not open, they can't
just go in whenever they want.
I don't care when they go and get the coloring stuff
as long as they tell me they're coloring,
but if they're going to go up here and say
hey mom I want to get the glue or I
want to get scissors, I definitely want to know
when they have a pair of scissors, right?
Moms, I know you feel me. Same goes with Play-Doh.
If they're going to play with Play-Doh
I need to make sure that we are
good to go on Play-Doh and we've got
a situation set up because they're gonna need
the cookie cutters out, and like the plastic knives
and all that kind of stuff to play with their Play-Doh,
and I want to make sure everything goes back the right way
or they're going to be mixing Play-Doh
and then they're going to be mad,
then I'm going to have to buy new Play-Doh,
we don't want that to happen.
So these are level three, you can't play with these
unless you ask mommy type of things.
So you guys probably have items like that
at your house too that are totally the same thing.
Anyway, that is my entire art closet.
And again, this is the before shot.
Clearly it looks way better than it did before.
So head over to Target, grab some of
these cute little pails, or IKEA or even
Home Depot to grab a little metal rod
to put on some butcher paper.
I know there's a lot of stores
who have colored butcher paper
so you easily could put one or two
or three even rolls of butcher paper
and just pull them out when your
kids need them.
If you guys have any tips that you guys have used
or any places you've grabbed some awesome deals
on organizing supplies, please leave it below
in the comment section so other people
can benefit from that too.
I love it when we're all working together
and sharing ideas and tips together
because as moms we totally need to do that
so we can save some time and save some money.
So thanks so much for watching.
Don't forget to check out one of my other videos
that you might have missed coming up right now.
Bye guys.
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