Repurposing and Reorganizing The Food Closet

One of the first things I recognized when we moved in 5 years ago was the need for a new pantry storage system. The one we inherited was makeshift and didn't even go all the way across the pantry (it left about 1/2 a foot or more of space! The shelves were wobbly, and things would often fall through the slots (i.e. hot chocolate packets) . All of this made it very hard to see what we had (which made me buy more!)

But we didn't want to fork out the dough for a new shelving system. So we waited. And waited. And WAITED.

Then we redid our closets and had a VERY long shelf left over. I asked my husband to repurpose the shelf into 4 separate ones that could give us more space in the pantry, and he surprised me with this one day when I got home from work!

Hello organization! I still need some storage solution (carts or baskets or tubs) for the floor and the door which has our lunchboxes, soda and formula. But I can now see everything! All the canned items are together! All the breakfast items are together! All the pastas and rices are together! All the baking items - guess what? They're together!! And of course, it was another 100% free project that was saved from the landfill. Go Green!

THAT was a good present.