Pantry
I have been an avid couponer for 6 years. I have seen a decline in how many coupons I
use in a month, but it is still worth my while.
I purchase items on sale and use a coupon with the sale price whenever
possible. Our pantry used to be an unorganized mess
which lead to me spending more on food as I was buying things that I already
had but didn’t realize it was in the abyss.
When I decided this summer to organize the pantry, I was
looking at beautiful bins at Winners, and when I started to add it up it would
have been close to $500 to organize, not in my Guess Who’s Cheap Budget. Instead,
I hit up the Dollarama. I bought white
bins that are normally used as wash bins. I also bought 2 canvas shoe bags, 5 rolls of
pattern duct tape, and asked friends with kids to save their diaper boxes for
me. I was at my mom’s house and noticed she had two boxes out for recycling
that kept cans of pop and I took those too.
I used the duct tape and covered one bin. After I finished it and put it on the shelf I
realized that the whole bin wasn’t seen. So for all the other bins I only
covered the front and about 2 inches on each side. I have a bin for each category. A few
examples are bread, breakfast (my husband uses about 10 things to make an
oatmeal daily) junk food, baking, pasta just to name a few.
I covered two boxes that held pop cans and use these to
store my soup cans.
I bought two canvas shoe racks and used extra hooks in the
holes for reinforcement. One is used for prepackaged snacks such as granola
bars and gum and candy. The other one I use
for spices, jello and oatmeal packages.
I then put diaper boxes on the floor and use those to store
my extras, based on category. I have
run out of the duct tape, and haven’t covered these boxes yet.
I have been recycling glass jars as canisters since I moved
out on my own in 1997. I have large glass jars that Nescafe Instant Coffee came
in and use those for canisters. I took the lids and hot glued twine around to
give it a custom look. I also use mason jars to store spices and items with
less quantity.
This system works well for us, and keeps it organized and
looking good!
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from Guess Who’s Cheap.
