Thursday, July 26, 2012

Pantry Cleanout - Round 2

I finally got around to cleaning the other side of my pantry today after I saw the great job my little sis did on her big boys room.  Maybe we can go back and forth, Cindy, and keep each other motivated?  Anyway, this side was more of a hot mess, mostly owing to the fact that I just mash stuff in there to keep it away from little fingers.  Here is the before, complete with toddler trying to get as much stuff as she can before I shoo her away:


Extra food at the top, on the fourth shelf, and on the floor. Art supplies on the 2nd and 5th shelves, of course?! The only thing that was working was the vase/casserole shelf. So I got to work and a two hours later, I had this.


Muuuch better.  All the food together and off the floor and all the art stuff together and accessible again.  The only area I didn't tackle is the coupon/office supply half of the fourth shelf (in the canning jar box), but I have big plans for that involving some scrap wood in the garage and my Kreg Jig, so watch this space :-)  Down in one corner I found this little gem. 


I think it is some sort of basket liner for food from back when Longaberger was the big thing (yes, I'm that old that I've been through housekeeping fads, yikes!), but it works great for markers and crayons.


Of course, it wouldn't be our house without a random box of unlabeled liquor :-)  I set this aside on the floor for my husband to identify and disposition.


So there you have it - again it didn't take nearly as long to do as I took putting it off.  Does anyone see a pattern forming here?

4 comments:

  1. Obviously, identifying the random alcohol will require several samples over the evening!

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    1. Mike says it is Pyment. Because apparently that's supposed to mean something to me...

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  2. You are inspiring me to keep at my massive clean out. Tonight is just a regular clean up, though. Amazing how dirty two boys, a dog, and two cats can get a house. Wait, that's not really that amazing.

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  3. Awesome! As soon as school starts..I will be tackling my pantry as well. :)

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