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By: 52 Weeks: #37 Bringing together like with like : I'm an Organizing Junkie

52 Weeks: #37 Bringing together like with like : I'm an Organizing Junkie — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:46:23 +0000

[...] be, it’s time to get a handle on it. Collect it all into one place, do a sort and purge and consolidate it into one space. You can do this and I think you’ll be amazed at the difference it [...]

By: Valerie

Valerie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:00:24 +0000

I love it! I like to buy bulk and put it in clear containers (canning jars, stuff from the thrift store) but for little snacks I have 2 large, semi-see through bins one for sweet snack and one for savory.

I also need to do something about the cans of soda- seems to me that my family loves leaving the cardboard behind in the pantry when its empty instead of putting it into the recycling :-/

By: Lorie

Lorie — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:25:25 +0000

OMG! You all make me so envious! Sounds to me like I need to hop on this blog train and get my life organized. You are all so jazzed about it, and I can never truly find anything. I can see I’m going to have an organizing/consolidating party at my house very soon!!

By: Valerie

Valerie — Sat, 30 May 2009 13:47:11 +0000

Brilliant! Thanks for the tip. Can’t wait to implement it : ) Great site. Thanks!!!

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:05:41 +0000

Sherry, I just discovered this blog. It’s fantastic! Your idea of the ultimate bag and mine are the same! Ah, to be able to use every square inch and see it at a glance. :)

By: SherrySue

SherrySue — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:00:38 +0000

Laura. I’m very new to your blog and have found comfort in knowing that there are other “freaks” just like me out there who not only are aware of the addiction, but are willing to share the means by which they acheive thier “rush.”
I absolutely love containers, consolidation, cubbies, boxes, buckets, the list goes on. I am also thrown immediately into the fetal position when two of the same box, bottle or bag of the same thing is opened. Aaargh!!!
I was wondering too how you feel about pocket books with a zillion pockets? I say, the more pockets, the more fun. Those really pretty, HUGE, bags that are all the rave right now, may look good but when you’re trying to find something at the bottom of that cavernous vessel…forget it!
I personally would have to buy or find a bunch of little bags to put in my HUGE bag making this lovely “convenience” 150 lbs.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:59:17 +0000

Haha I love it, I do the same thing! I use extra bowls, oversize mugs or plastic containers.

My husband loves this because then all his snack -type goodies (granola bars, fruit roll ups, biscotti) are all in one place and he can just grab one. :)

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:18:10 +0000

Sarah that is great, great. I love it.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:16:02 +0000

I like to consolidate to a point I’ll put all the kids oatmeal together put I like my wieght smart oatmeal seperate. I don’t want the kids reaching in and grabing my oatmeal because they will eat it they don’t look at it they just open and eat. Also it would drive me crazy to Special K bars mixed with Nature Valley, I want all the Nature Valleys in one box put not the same box as the Special K. I try to just buy the same thing every time so my perfectionist side doesn’t rear it’s ugly head.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:16:47 +0000

I feel the same way about consolidating. I do a lot better with my kitchen cabinets than I do with clutter elsewhere in my house.

You would LOVE LOVE LOVE Tupperware Modular Mates. Please, for the sake of your own happiness, march over to tupperware.com and use the search box to look them up. The Rectangulars and Super Ovals are precisely the depth of a standard kitchen cabinet. 2 Super Ovals stack precisely on top of a Rectangular. The heights are proportionate, so a Super Oval 1 stacked onto a Super Oval 2 will be precisely the height of a Super Oval 3… or a Rectangular 3, for that matter. They are genius. And airtight.

Ideally, you would want enough of these bad boys to do your entire pantry in them: dry goods, pastas, beans, granola bars, cereals, potato chips, candy, coffee, cocoa mix, tea, rice, flour, sugar, you name it. Then you get out your handy-dandy label maker and that’s when the fun really begins. I’m not even kidding.