Category Archives: Containerizing

13 Toy Storage Solutions

Well I meant to write this post so much earlier in the month than this but alas it wasn’t meant to be. Better late than never right?
Here is a list of 13 toy storage solutions that look to be fabulous, fun and functional!! Clicking on the picture will take you to where I found [...]

If I had a trumpet, I’d totally be playing it right now!

When I walked into my daughter’s room tonight I found this on her table:

That my friends is no ordinary box.
That’s a box for storage.
A storage box made by cutting the top off a kleenex box.
Made by my daughter.
For storage!
Be still my heart.
Want to know what’s even better than that?
A storage box made out of a [...]

WFMW ~ Going to the beach the easy way!

As you know I live in a very small community with not a lot to do to keep kids busy during the long summer days. However we do have a gorgeous lake with a beautiful beach area about a half hour away that has saved my sanity on more days than I can [...]

The Basket Carnival is here!!

Today is all about baskets, containers and totes, woohoo! Talk about exciting, it’s like Christmas for me! All you have to do is take a picture (or more!) of some basket goodness going on in your home and link up to the Mr. Linky below. Easy! Any kind of [...]

Show me your baskets!

Have I told you lately how much I love baskets? No? How about containers? Or totes? Or boxes? Or really just about any functional holder of stuff for that matter. I do love them all, they comfort me and I can count on them. When life gets [...]

13 storage items to buy off Etsy OR look I have another addiction……

Okay so someone on blogland (if only I could remember who) introduced me to Etsy not too long ago. Oh my heavens! If you have never had the pleasure of visiting you are missing out. It’s like a gigantic crafts fair online! It has sucked me in so bad that I [...]

Ask the Freak ~ Organizing the Entryway

I received this email in response to my Command Center post:

I have the same dilemma that you recently posted about. My house opens right into my kitchen. I always have shoes and my purse and my work bag laying on the floor in the kitchen when I get home. We also have a dishwasher [...]

And where I take a tour into dreamland……

The joint giveaway with Capessa for the $200.00 gift card from The Container Store is now over and was that ever a lot of fun! Thanks to everyone who entered, I really enjoyed reading all your comments.
I’ve been perusing The Container Store website myself dreaming about how I would spend the $200.00 if you [...]

The excellent freezer tip that wasn’t…..

This was to be a lovely little post on how to use milk crates to organize your deep freezer. The truth of the matter is this. Milk crates do a fine job of organizing your freezer IF your freezer doesn’t look like mine.

Turns out that all that frost on the freezer sides doesn’t make [...]

Establishing limits and boundaries with containers!

Oh how I love to containerize. Out of all the organizing steps this is by far my favorite! There is just something so rewarding about making more fit into a space by using a few carefully selected containers. To me it is similar to doing a puzzle trying to fit all the pieces together.
Containers do [...]