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
stuff you have already around the house or things that you might throw away, you might
want to keep.
I’m going to show you all the things that I made and just really how to get organized
on a budget.
So if you feel like you have to spend a lot of money to get organized, I’m going to
show you that that’s not the case.
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 I’ve spent probably like two months making my own organizing products and I’m excited
to share with you everything that I’ve created.
All right.
So the first thing is I’ve grabbed a shoe box just like this.
This is kind of a large one.
But I wrapped it in duct tape, red duct tape to make it really strong.
And I’ve created my own homework caddy for students.
So a homework caddy is like all the supplies they might need to get all their homework
done.
So when they come home from school, they grab their homework caddy, they sit at the kitchen
table or wherever they do their homework and they have everything in front of them like
everything they might need.
So, what I did on the ends was I took the ends of like toilet paper rolls and I wrapped
them in duct tape to create this little pen and pencil caddies just like that and they’re
hot glue gunned to the bottom.
Over here, I took an empty toothpaste box.
I glued it to the bottom and then now, I can put like crayons, a calculator.
And then down here is a pencil case.
There is binder clips along the edge.
And then right here, I took clam shell container that came with Command Strips.
I saved it.
And now, I just out sticky notes in there.
It’s like a sticky note organizer.
So I just found whatever I had around the house and created something cool.
So, total cost was zero dollars.
All right.
The second thing I created was I took prescription bottles from around the house.
I covered them in pretty contact paper that matched the bottles.
I hot glue gunned them together.
And now, I have a pen and pencil caddy for the top of my desk.
And it’s so cool.
It’s round.
You can store a lot of things and it is – the cost of just the contact paper.
All right.
The next thing I created was I went to the beer and wine store and I asked if they had
extra wine boxes.
And they gave me a couple.
And so, I took one of them and I cut the bottom off.
I cut the dividers.
I covered the bottom in white duct tape to make it nice and strong and then I hot glue
gunned the dividers to the bottom to create a tea organizer.
And now, you can just take this and put this in a kitchen drawer and all your teas are
nice and visible.
They’re easy to access and when you have guests over, you can pull this out and ask
them what they want and they’re just nice and organized.
So that was fun to make.
The next thing and this is not my idea.
I got this from Robert Mahar from Kin Community.
He has a video on exactly how to make this, which I’ll put a link below.
But he made this perler bead cord wrap just like this.
So perler beads are these little beads that you iron together just like this and he made
it into a cookie which I thought was really fun.
So then I just took my earbuds, wrap them around and now, it just keeps them tangle-free
just like that.
In his video, he walks you through exactly how to make it.
OK.
The next thing I made which I was really excited about this, so one of my favorite organizing
products is a Lazy Susan because they spin nicely and makes everything easy to find and
they’re just great in pantries and cabinets.
So they’re hard to find.
They’re expensive to buy.
And if you live somewhere where you don’t have access to organizing products, you might
not have access to this.
So I decided to make own and I’m really excited about this.
I found two baking pans.
They’re 8-inch baking pans from the Dollar Store.
They were a dollar each.
I found a pack of marbles from the Dollar Store, put the marbles in between the pans.
And now, I have a $3 Lazy Susan made all by myself.
It took like, once I have the supplies, it literally took 10 seconds to put together
and it’s just so fun.
It spins really nicely and smoothly and it’s just really simple to make.
As you can see, the marbles are just like thrown in there just like that and it’s
seriously the simplest thing to make.
OK.
The next thing was my own jewelry organizer.
So I took a piece of wood.
I sanded it.
I painted it pretty color.
I sanded it again to make it look a little bit distressed.
I hammered nails and change in there to give it more of a distressed feel.
I don’t know if that was accomplished or not but then I took hardware and I put nails
here for rings, for earrings.
Then I put bigger nails here for bulkier bracelets and stuff.
And then there are hooks at the bottom like these – they’re called i-loop hooks or
something, i-hooks, for all of the necklaces.
And now, I can just mount this inside of my closet to detangle and store all of my jewelry
in a cost-effective jewelry organizer.
All right.
So that was fun to make.
The next thing, I like this.
This is a plastic wrap box from the kitchen.
I just saved it.
I took the blade off, the blade just like peels right off.
I covered it in pretty contact paper.
And then I found these little containers from the Dollar Store.
They come ten for a dollar and they fit perfectly in here.
They fit nine to a box and it’s like they were just made to go inside this organizer.
But it’s great for craft supplies, offices, supplies, beads or anything small around the
house like you can put hardware in here in the garage.
So, just a cool little organizer for the cost of a dollar, and you can put a rubber band
around it if you want to keep it shut.
Then the next thing was this little mail center for the top of my desk.
So all I did was take three cereal boxes.
I cut them in half.
I’ve wrapped them in duct tape to make it strong.
I stapled them together and then I added labels so there’s – you put bills here, things
to process here, and then things to call, ask, or cancel go here.
And an easier way to do this because I spent a lot of time cutting it is to just use granola
bar boxes because they’re all the same size if you buy the same brand.
And just do it that way.
So, that was a cheap project.
And then the last thing I made was I took a pizza box and you could totally do this
with a smaller box.
But I took a pizza box and I made my own tackle box.
So if you open it, you can see I found all of these mini red cups from the Dollar Store.
They’re so cute.
They come 20 for a dollar, and I just Velcro-ed them down to the bottom of the box to create
little sections.
So, this is like my label – this is all my labeling supplies.
So, I put all my labeling supplies in here.
But the reason why I Velcro-ed them down was – so you can make your tackle box flexible.
So if you’re storing a bunch of small things one year, the next year, you might use this
to store bigger the bigger things so you can always take the cups out and create like bigger
sections just like this.
Then you can always put them back.
So if I take some out then I have a bigger section right here for bigger things like
these guys.
So, that was fun to make.
And really, the cost was just the cups and then the Velcro.
And now, you have a tackle box.
And this is kind of like a big version so you could do it with a tiny box.
It’s just the concept is what I wanted to show.
So anyways, so this is part 1 of my do it yourself organizing products video.
In the second part, I’m going to show you nine or ten other things that I created out
of stuff I just have around the house.
But it just goes to show that you don’t have to spend a lot of money on organizing
products.
You can just get creative, think outside the box and you can still get organized.
So I hope you enjoyed this video.
And if this is your first time watching any of my videos, you can check out my website,
Alejandra.TV or subscribe to my channel for more videos.
Thanks for watching and I’ll see you soon.
Bye!