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This is
33 Clever Ways To Organize All The Small Things by
Natalie Brown.
Another organizing ideas your might need more
than you think.
1. Store bobby pins in a magnetic paper clip holder.
Works infinitely better
than a magnetic strip in your drawer.
2. Corral your hair ties with a carabiner.
3. Pair your earrings up in an ice cube tray.
4. And pack jewelry in a daily pill
organizer when you travel.
yes. it’s a daily pill organizer!
You can find these containers
at your local pharmacy for just a couple of bucks.
5. Cover a corkboard in linen for a flexible necklace display.
This tangle-free version is from "hello beauty blog".
1. Cover a cork board that has a wood frame with fabric.
The cork board itself cost $20 from amazon.
You could also use a staple gun. There’s
no need to be neat becuse no one will see that.
2. Add furniture tacks or thumb tacks
to the front of the board, evenly spaced
3. For a simple decorative touch,
layered on a piece of organza ribbon on the left side
4. Last but not least, add a sawtooth picture hanger.
And that’s it! Now I have a “jewelry box” of sorts
that allows me to see all my necklaces and bracelets
so I actually wear them,
instead of forgetting about them.
6. Group nail polish by color in a shoe organizer.
(you know you never actually put your shoes
away anyway).
This one looks like it may be a jewelry organizer,
but a shoe organizer would work too!
7. Store your makeup brushes in a toothbrush holder.
But, um, please keep them clean.
8. Paint PVC pipe to separate your underwear. Direction:
My drawer was 4 1/2” tall
so I cut my PVC pipes down to 4” in width.
I used a piece of wood and some clamps onto my saw guide
to cut my pipes all the same
size.
Then I chopped away.
Next step is art job,
(You can paint them different color if pink’s
not your thing).
9. Loop shower curtain rings on an over-the-door
towel rack to organize your scarf collection.
(You may have seen this trick with a hanger, too).
10. Give everyone their own jar
for their toothpaste and toothbrush.
Or mini bucket, or cartoon character cup.
Credit goes to "agirlandagluegun".
THE KITCHEN.
11. Stack spaghetti boxes in a magazine holder.
Although I don’t know how much spaghetti
you need to keep in your house
at any given time.
12. And your plastic wrap and foil.
Also cutting boards.
13. Keep your Keurig cup drawer
in check with egg cartons.
Great for work, too.
14. (If this one isn’t obvious, there’s no hope for you.)
It took about 10 minutes and my daughter got into the action too
15. Build a big jar shelf to decorate
with your beans, snacks and pasta.
They are A LOT more safe than they seem in a toddler or clumsy
person or earthquake situation!
It is impossible to knock the jars off
of the shelves unless you physically pick them up,
lift them, pull them out, and throw them on the floor.
Follow link and try if you sceptical type.
16. Customize drawer organizers
for all of your kitchen utensils.
The problem with premade drawer organizers
is that the slots are never big enough
and never where I want them to be.
And custom drawer organizers are expensive
and can take awhile to come in
if you custom order them.
Kevin and amanda provide this solution,
in collaboration with lowes.
17. Sort plastic lids by size in a dish drying rack.
Old CD racks work well, too.
Started with the larger lids on the right
and worked to the left with the smaller lids.
It was much easier to choose the correct lid
because we didn't have to take the basket out
to look through all of them.
A simple tip to help you get organized on
a budget!
18. Line a vintage tea tin with scrapbook paper,
and make small dividers labeled with types of tea.
Very simple tutorial provided by "hiandhello.com"
19. Hang a tiered fruit basket with an "S" hook
to give bath toys a happy home.
If you’re worried about rust, spray lightly
with a corrosion inhibitor
or anti-rust spray paint.
20. Fill a bean bag cover with stuffed animals.
Your kiddos won’t whine about wanting
beanbag chairs anymore, either.
Doesn't it look sooo much better?.
21. Separate colored pencils, markers or crayons
by color by taping together old
Crystal Lite containers.
Tape is all there is to it.
22. Pull out that serving plate stand
you never use and turn it into a craft caddy.
Not only that, Some useless wedding gifts
CAN have second lives too.
23. Label toy drawers with photos of
the toys to make clean-up time easy peasy.
More cute play room ideas at "familyeverafterblog.com"
24. Transform an ordinary LACK table into a lego table.
And build magnetic storage containers into the sides.
Making the Lego table itself is pretty self explanatory,
assemble a small table
(we got a white IKEA Lack table for $8),
Gorilla glue four Lego base plates to the top
(be sure to add legos to all of the seams so that the spacing
is correct- pushing the base plates
all the way together makes for the wrong spacing).
On one side, there’s a row of hanging buckets.
perfect for storing project leftovers
(or waiting-to-get-to’s).
And on the other side, there’s a magnet strip,
complete with magnetic tins for lego storage.
I think these tins will eventually become
‘homes’ for all of Burke’s lego guys
(providing a way for all of their
‘accessories’ to stay with them and also protection from
our littlest lego afficianado, Piper Jane).
25. Stash game pieces in plastic bags
behind the game board.
Brilliant if your kids own tons of board games.
26. Save your scrap yarn on clothespins.
You never know when you’ll need it!
27. Group your yarn by color
on an unused wall-mounted wine rack.
28. Sort small office supplies into muffin cups.
More stylish than plastic drawer dividers.
29. Screw peanut butter jars to the bottom
of your garage shelves to keep nails in check.
Direction: Screwed the lids into the wooden shelf
that sits above the work top and then
simply fill your jars with whatever
small you need storing and screw the jar onto the mounted lid.
Out of the way and pretty organized.
Gotta love that!
30. String up a rainbow of ribbon spools
with some chain and curtain rods.
You could also use dowels,
and co-opt a few of the rods to hang wrapping paper.
You will want to make sure
the rods don’t slip out of the chain
by putting some sort of stopper
on the ends.
(maybe rubber bands).
31. Dedicate a drawer to spices.
If you have enough spices,
maybe it’s worth sacrificing a drawer.
I decided to give my spice jars a little make over this weekend.
I had small labels on the lids,
but they were starting to come apart
from all the twisting of the lids.
This time I wanted
to do something a little more permanent.
Here is what you need.
1. Spice Jars
(I already had a drawer full of these, they were $0.99 each
at "Bedbathandbeyond")
2. Vellum Paper
3. Adhesive sheets
4. Paper cutter and
5. Printer
First,
I created a template for my larger rounded tops
as well as my strips.
Then I printed the templates onto the vellum.
Using the paper cutter, I cut on either side of the black lines.
You can use a circle cutter for the circles,
but I didn't have one large enough,
so I cut them out by hand.
Next, You need to turn the strips
and circles into stickers.
I don't have a fancy sticker machine
(though I've seen them at the craft stores),
so I used these adhesive sheets.
Here is how they work.
You strip the backing off the sheet, like
so.
Then you lay a few of your strips
onto the sticky part and then cut them out.
(You can also cut the adhesive sheets
into the same size of your strips first)
Now you have a sticker!
When you are ready to apply them to your jars,
just remove the second strip from the back.
Apply the sticker to the jar.
Work from the middle around
to apply the sticker without
any bubbles.
When your jars are finished, fill them with spices!
How cute are those?
I love them.
More story: I have a shallow but wide drawer
in my kitchen island.
It is a perfect place for my spices.
I found these spice jar holders for drawers at IKEA.
(They also sell jars that fit in them with silver lids.)
I used four of them in my drawer,
leaving room for my larger jars.
(I have larger jars for things I use a lot like
baking soda, poppy seeds etc)
I alphabetized my small jars, but you could do them by color
or however you like.
My larger jars are organized by the amount I use them,
with the sweet items on one side.
Now they are My favorite drawer in the kitchen!
32. File circular needles away
in a binder full of 4-pocket organizers.
You can also write down the needle’s size and length on a card behind it.
33. Re-pot your glitter into salt and pepper shakers.
Found this one at Target.
This works best if you find
a little caddy to hold them all.
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