Sunday, May 11, 2014

Organize 2014: April

It's May already. Shhh... ignore that and I will, too.


This month I made a discovery - the best baby article you have is a laundry basket. I picked up this beauty at Goodwill for $4, and it is brilliant for a baby learning to sit. We have tile floors, which hurt to go bonk on (we have gone bonk several times, twice on the head and once on the face. Scrunchy got over it quickly, though). Sitting him in a basket provides two benefits: 1, the sides catch him so that he can straighten himself. 2, the toys can't escape.






So, for my April organizational goal, I decided to straighten my back door closet. The one that contains my life line of reusable grocery bags. Observe:


















I didn't mean to clean this closet at first - I started working on the library and found these backpack/bags my husband had brought home. I was going to sew adorable bags in this exact function when I realized I could take these fake-backpack like things, turn them upside down, and cut the bottoms open. It took all of five seconds, and I was done. I then stuffed the bags with grocery bags. It's like Inception, but less irritating.


















I also separated the paper vs. reusable bags to improve the hoarding experience, and rearranged the junk treasures on my storage shelf. More on the storage shelf in a future post.

Final result: