i have dreams of being organized, seriously, i do, but i have a hard time GETTING organized. i've always said that if someone would just organize things for me, i could keep them organized... it was just the "getting" that i couldn't handle. here's my cupboard...
phone books (waaaayyy too many...), vitamins, batteries, pills, old checkbooks, cookbooks, etc...
it was a mess! you can tell (can't you?) that at one point i was "organized..." see the drawers behind the pill bottles?? =) anyway, i cleared EVERYTHING out of the cupboard and started over. i shredded all the old check books...
this is not an exaggeration! there were a few shredded papers in the bottom when i started, but this is all the paper hooey from the cupboard. yikes! (we have oodles of new years confetti now)
i rummaged around the house for a basket or two, and brought the medicine bins down from upstairs. i had two of them up in my bathroom that i wasn't really using. after i properly disposed of all the expired medicine, there was room for most of the items from the cupboard.
can you finally see my little drawers? =) the top drawer holds scotch tape and postage stamps, middle drawer has address labels, and the bottom drawer is holding smaller batteries (aa and aaa.) i still need to label the totes, the bottom one is filled with medications, the middle bin with first aid items, and the top tote has emergency items like candles and larger batteries. i recycled all the phone books except one, and put the recipe books i wanted to keep into a metal basket i had laying around. my coupon book (when i get IT cleaned out) will live on the top shelf with the phone book. it's not perfect, but it's SO much better than what we had before! i'm feeling pretty accomplished! yay me!
