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Welcome back to 5 Days of Organizing & Cleaning!

 

5 Days of Organizing & Cleaning in the Kitchen

brought to you by Fridge Coaster

 

Day 1:  Cleaning Under Your Kitchen Sink.

Day 2:  Keeping Your Refrigerator Clean & Organized.

Day 3:  10 Things to Use in Kitchen Organization

Today is Day 4, and we’re talking about Organizing our Spices & Pills.

 

Organizing Your Spices & Pills

Bottles, Bottles, everywhere!  I just happen to keep most of my spices in a cabinet right next to most of my pill bottles.  It seems that I have A LOT of both!  I definitely wasn’t using most of those items on a regular basis!

I found things that expired several years ago up there!

I found hardened spices.

I found lots that I needed to throw out!

Here’s the before pictures:

 

I pulled everything out and sorted it according to how often I use it.  If I knew I’d be using it weekly, I kept it more available to me.  The things I knew I wouldn’t be using or were badly expired, I threw out.

I didn’t have anything fancy to use for storage or organizing at this point…so I just made do with a box that I had laying around to contain my “sick” medicines.  Anything for congestion, pain relief or allergies went into the box.  That will make it easy when sick season comes around again.  We can just grab the box out and easily find what we’re looking for!

I had a lot of vitamins up there that I will need to do more research on what they’re for.  The frugal side in me is not wanting to throw them away if I can use them for something!  I set them aside so that I can research and see if I want to keep them to begin taking them or not.  If I don’t find good reasons to take them, they will be pitched or given away.  I did not return those vitamins up to this shelf as I wanted to be able to find what I needed.  I will find alternate storage in a different area of the house for them, should I decide to keep them.

Here’s the after pictures:

 

 

Ahhhhh, doesn’t that look lots better?  I don’t think I reorganized this cabinet since I moved here 4 years ago.   I guess I just have to take baby steps to get anywhere!

What is your favorite method of organizing spices and/or pills?

 

Don’t forget to visit the other 21 bloggers who are also discussing Organizing & Cleaning this week.  There are so many awesome subjects to pick from!  There’s Organizing for Hospitality, Favorite Cleaning Tools & Organizing Your Bathroom, just to name a few!

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    Thank you so much! As a special needs mommy these recipes have helped us so much.   I often am very busy with being a nurse for our child that I don't have time for making sure we get meals.  This allows me to do all my prep on the weekends, while my husband is home to help, and to cook during the week.  So grateful!

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    This makes my life so much easier. I'm a busy work at home/stay at home mom, wife, business woman and I feel like dinner is always the thing I just never get time to do. We have done like 15 of the crockpot recipes from Sarah and they are all very yummy. They get a thumbs up from my husband and kids every time. And there is always enough for my husband to take the left overs at least 2x per recipe. I have a family of 5, 2 adults, 21, 13, 16. So it makes plenty. Thank you Sarah.

  • Dawn S.Buyer of Freezer to Slow Cooker Ebook Series
    I am a 59-year-old wife and mother of two grown children.  I love your idea of fixing a lot of meals ahead of time and then pulling one out, put it in the crockpot, and you have dinner when you get home.  I hate feeling rushed when I cook so Monday - Friday I use those crockpot meals and make enough that we have lunch the next day.  I take Sunday afternoon, fix up what I need for the week (I don't have a lot of freezer space so I do a week's worth at a time) and I'm done with it!  Saturdays I like to try new recipes from some of my cookbooks which I am finding I can freeze as well!  So you have shown me a whole new way to organize my time and still put a healthy meal on the table.  Thanks so much and I look forward to future blogs.

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