Help with organizing eyeglasses
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Comments (1)Check eBay! Seriously...many brick & mortar stores also sell new stuff on eBay. In fact I just got my very first pair of reading glasses (ouch! Oh well, I'm 46 so I guess it's about that time) and bought three pairs on eBay. Brand new, from some store in NYC...cheaper than what I saw at the drug store and pretty cute too. :o)...See MoreHelp - small pantry organizing
Comments (14)I agree w/ the power of back-of-door storage. Make that the place where you store the stuff you use MOST often. Especially the smaller stuff. As for the little alcoves on either side of the door: Maybe that's where you line up the paper towels, or other similarly shaped things (cereal boxes?). They're big, and easy to grab, and can be lifted over the other stuff. If you're not handy, you might need help with your pullouts. Got a handy relative/friend/handyman? Though...there is a company that makes pullouts you can mount to the shelves (base mount, or bottom mount), if your shelves are fixed and solid. And that's something you could probably do as long as you can run an electric screwdriver, or maybe a basic drill. You might consider having pullouts only on SOME of the shelves, or maybe on some AREAS of the shelf (and tuck things like paper plates on their edges, or paper towels, or cereal boxes, or tall skinny plastic containers of cereal, into the space between the pullout and the wall. These are base-mount. This company has lots of different designs. I'm a fan of full-extension slides, but they're pricey. https://www.shelvesthatslide.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=AS58EWH&Category_Code=SS One thing about combining pullouts and back-of-door storage: The back-of-door baskets will jut out, and they may be in the path of the pullouts. So, something to think about....See MoreMoving purging organizing help
Comments (12)Instead of focusing on what you have, and what to get rid of, maybe start with a blank piece of paper, a place to sit and write, and a little time. Keeping your "what is most important to me" in mind, maybe sit in the space, or just picture yourself doing an activity (like the canning you enjoy so much). Say to yourself, "What do I want in the room? When I picture myself sitting and relaxing in the living room, do I care what the chair is? What can I picture myself sitting in, placing my coffee cup in? What am I doing--listening to music, reading, what?" And, "when I think about my home, is there a piece of furniture that has a sentimental meaning that's really powerful?" (Me, I don't care about the chairs I have, so if they wouldn't fit, I wouldn't cry, but I have an end table my mother found for me and mailed to me that I'd work hard to fit into any new place. And I own a piano that used to belong to someone dear to me.) Pretend you're starting from scratch, and make a list of what you want in the room. Then go "shopping" among your stuff, and only pull out the things that fit your "shopping list." And I don't know about you and canning, but for me it's really easy to have way too much sewing stuff. So, I try to think through the stuff I might do, and picture all the steps, and what are the tools I'm using?...See MoreKitchen organizing help
Comments (22)Organize is a bad word when people say it in terms of a need. Bet you six million dollars right here, the answer is you don't NEED 50 % of what is in there. So.............. before you even ATTEMPT to organize it: Drawer by drawer, and cupboard by cupboard, one at a time and EACH one, you purge: You ask, do I use thiis Do I have another just like it? Is it stale ( spices). If the answer is Never? it's OUT. If the answer is once a year? It's out to the basement or garage in a crate. If it is grungy, gooey, yellowed, sticky, gummy............it is OUT. If it is the disposable containers from the market from take out or prepared food? bet you have 300. Keep ten. Pens and pads and tape and office and the junk drawer? ALL OF THOSE have a place. Not in the kitchen. Twenty running water bottles from the gym? Keep two. Those covers to keep the glass cold? NO...OUT. The mismatched mugs, and you use the same four? No. Out . Vases? You keep every one from any bouguet ever delivered? OUT OUT OUT. They are 1.50 junk. Over and over and over I see it. Junk overload. But you DON'T waste a dime on the organizer, nor the bins and bull _ _ _ _ baskets she may attempt to sell you.......UNTIL you have done what I said. Two days in total. That's all you need. Then if you still can not make sense of where to put the remaining stuff? You may call an "organizer." : ). I'm serious, and here comes the head bash....See Morecamlan
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