Hi everyone.
I’m Alejandra from Alejandra.TV.
And in this video, I’m going to show you how to make your own organizing products with
things you have already around the house.
So this is part 2 of my do it yourself organizing products video.
So if this is your first time watching any of my videos, you can check out my free organizing
video series on my website, Alejandra.TV.
There is a link below.
OK.
So let me show you the second half of all of the organizing products that I made with
stuff just around the house.
So I’m doing this video to show you that you don’t have to spend a lot of money to
get organized.
You can still get organized on a tiny budget with things you find around the house if you
get creative.
So let me show you all the things that I made.
So the first thing was I took an apple container from Costco.
I saved it.
And I put holiday ornaments inside.
So now, I can just take this whole container and I can put it inside my holiday bin and
nothing is going to get broken or damaged while it’s in storage.
So literally, it’s like the cost of buying apples.
You just save it and then you put your ornaments in there.
And you can do this with other fragile decorations for around the house.
It’s cool because it’s like individual compartments.
So that was easy.
All right.
The second thing was I took a Pringles container just like this.
I covered it in pretty contact paper, this like pretty pink cheetah, not cheetah, giraffe
print and now, it looks so pretty and it now – I found these little containers to put
inside of them just like this.
You can fit seven of them.
I got them at Dollar Tree.
It was ten for a dollar and they’re great for craft supplies, art supplies.
You can put office supplies in there.
And it’s just a cool way to organize small things around your house.
You could also store hardware in here.
But the total cost was like the containers inside which is a dollar and then obviously,
the Pringles container itself.
OK.
The next thing I created was I took a piece of wood.
I sanded it.
I painted it.
I sanded it again to make it look distressed and then I took clothes pins.
I painted those and sanded them.
And then I hot glue gunned them to the piece of wood just like this.
And now, you could just hang this on the wall for kid’s artwork, kid’s school work,
photos, invitations, just like cards or something and you just go like that.
The total cost of this was the clothes pins, which clothes pins are so cheap.
You can get like 50 for a dollar.
So that was fun to make.
The next thing was I took a beer box like the bottom of a – not the bottom of the
beer box, the whole beer box.
It comes with like 24 or 12 beer bottles.
I took it and I covered it with gift wrap just like this.
And now, I put file folders in here.
So file folders fit perfectly like the width of it side by side.
You can also put magazines in here.
You could put – what else?
I guess magazines and file folders just fit perfectly inside here.
Then I took like the wrapper of a chocolate bar.
I took the wrapper.
It never touches the chocolate bar because the chocolate bars covered in foils so nothing
is chocolatey inside it.
But I took it and I covered it in duct tape to make it nice and strong.
And inside here, I have address labels and stamps.
So it’s kind of like a poly envelope now, just store stuff in here and it has a little
clasp right here.
It’s so cool.
It’s nice and strong.
And it was the cost of buying a chocolate bar.
All right.
The next thing I found or created was this ribbon box.
So I just took a small kid’s shoe box just like this and I put a shish kebab sticklike
I literally just took this thing and poked it though one end and then the second end
and then I put spools of ribbon across the shish kebab stick and then I added little
holes in the front of it to kind of feed the ribbon through.
Now when you do this, you have to make sure that the hole is really small or else the
ribbon is just going to fall back into the box.
So now that it’s small, I could just pull it and it pulls nice and slow.
It’s really nice.
And then you have this edge right here that’s like sticking out.
It’s the sharp edge of the shish kebab stick which I just found this little – this went
to the plastic wrap end that I showed in the previous do it yourself video.
I just saved this and then I could just glue gun this right here.
And it’s going to not be sharp.
So, that is my free ribbon box.
Then over here, this is a large gold fish box that I just got at the grocery store.
It’s like buying gold fish in bulk and it has this nice flap right here are the top.
So what I did was I covered it in camouflage duct tape to make it nice and strong and to
make it a color.
And then I just put all of my old rugs in here.
And you can do the same thing with like plastic bags under the sink or trash bags or something.
And so now, I can put this in the garage for all the cleaning rugs.
And if you don’t want to do like a big box like this, you can do a tissue box.
This is like the same concept.
There is the opening at the top but it’s just a smaller box.
All right.
Down here, I have an egg container.
So this is a really nice egg container.
I was like, “We can’t throw this out.”
So I was figuring out a way to reuse it.
So first off, I put these Easter eggs inside.
But if you don’t have the Easter eggs inside, you could totally put some hardware and keep
this in the garage like nails, screws.
You can either – you can also cut off the top right here and put it in your desk drawer
for paper clips, push pins, and stuff like that, like little office supplies.
And then you can also, if you are looking for a place to store all of your plastic Easter
eggs when it’s not Easter time, you could store all your Easter eggs inside.
It sounds kind of silly but I don’t know.
That’s just another idea.
Another idea is if you have these plastic eggs, you could totally use them for travelling.
So what I did here is I put a bracelet inside and then I rubber band it across.
So now, I can just like toss this in my suitcase and it’s not going to like – the shell
is protecting the piece of jewelry inside and the rubber band is preventing it from
opening so pushing down and it’s not opening.
So what I’m saying is you can put delicate items inside and throw it in your suitcase
and it’s not going to get damaged.
OK.
And then over here, I took a clementine box and I painted it and then I just put ribbon
around – not ribbon, whatever this is called, the string.
And then I just made a little snack box just like this.
But you can also – if you don’t want to create a snack box, you could also put it
under your sink for like sponges or for cleaning supplies or you could put it in the garage
for hardware bottles or something or just a container.
So cool things you can do with that.
And the last thing I created was a light bulb organizer, which I showed in my garage video
a while ago.
All I did was take a plastic shoe box and you can take a cardboard shoe box if you have
that.
I took Styrofoam cups that I had and I glued them down to a piece of cardboard to the bottom
of the box.
And then now, I can store all my light bulbs in here and they’re not going to get cracked,
they’re not going to get damaged and they’re out of the way.
And they’re easy to access.
Every time you go to open like at least for me, every time I go to open a light bulb box,
they’re always so complicated to open.
This just makes it really easy.
And you don’t have to store light bulbs in here.
You could totally store like Christmas ornaments or any other delicate item that you don’t
want it to get cracked while it’s in the storage.
So, that is everything that I’ve made.
It’s all the organizing products that I’ve made with like stuff around the house.
It just goes to show that you don’t have to spend a lot of money to get organize if
you get creative, you think outside the box, you can make your own organizing products
and there’s just so much joy in making your own stuff and just admiring it afterwards.
So I hope this video has inspired you to just look around the house and figure out what
you can do with stuff you already have.
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Thanks for watching and I’ll see you soon.
Bye!