21 Days to Getting Organized Day

Day 16 Cleaning & Organizing The Fridge

I think I cheated on this one. When Toni's challenge started I stalked her blog for days and after seeing her fridge, I decided mine needed to be completely cleaned out too!

Although I didn't take before pictures . .  I can assure you it was yucky! Now I've just been trying to stay on "top of it" for the last two weeks.

So here's this morning's BEFORE:

Inside the Front & the Door

I took most everything out and wiped out everything. It wasn't bad at all, two weeks ago that's another story! I tossed whatever had expired, I have to be honest I was starting to get confused on what year it was!

I'm still torn on the fridge containerizing. I'm not sure I want containers in my fridge. If I do, I want clear containers. Until then, I just put lunch meats, cheeses, and tortillas in the deli drawer.

Veggies in the Veggie Drawers

Do you refrigerate your tomatoes? How about potatoes? How about onions (all colors)? How about bread?

Then in the door, I put condiments most used in the top left shelf ketchup, mayo, mustard you get the drift.

Then dressings and sauces below that. The shelf on the right has everything else except the milk and husband's creamers on the top right shelf and all of my daughter's lunch juices in the bottom.

P.S. If you have seen the clear containers, will you left me know where? Thanks!

21 Days of Getting Organized Day 15

Day 15 The Medicine/Vitamin Organization

I already did my medicine cabinet and medicine tubs the other day, do you know how much stuff I tossed? A lot of expired medication! That got me thinking about my mini first aid kit in the car. I bought that years ago and who knows what is still "good" in there!

BEFORE:

Like I said, it's a mini First Aid Kit

I took everything out and wiped down the case

Checked everything for expiration dates. Then sorted like items with like items.

Then loaded it back in. This is not meant for a serious accident, jut a few bandages and aspirin. Which got me thinking again that perhaps I need a bigger First Aid Kit in my car? Just in case!

21 Days to Getting Organized Day 14

7 Days To Go! What? I can't tell you how sad that makes me. I LOVE this Challenge and I don't want it to end! P.S. I'm sure my husband doesn't either.

Day 14 Under the Bathroom Sink

 

On Day 13 "The Medicine Cabinet" I got a little carried away, mostly because I relocated some things to under the bathroom sink. I couldn't help myself and HAD to do that space too!

 

Here's what I showed BEFORE:

 

The Cluster

 

I took everything out, cleaned the cubby, tossed junk, and realized I need to use what I have before buying something else. Then I grouped like items with like items, stored what was used most up front.

This was a little cleaver and dorky all wrapped up into one. I re-purposed the tampon dividers that come in the multi-pak with like items. The cubby is large and all the tubes were hard to load in and stay put. Thank you Tampax!

 The AFTER

OK now directly to the right of UNDER THE BATHROOM SINK is MY HAIR DRAWER

BEFORE:

Not too bad, just a little messy and a ton of long dark hair EVERYWHERE. If it hadn't been so early I would have got the vacuum out first, that's my my first step in cleaning the bathroom.

All cleaned and wiped down.

All hairbrushes and combs cleaned, whatever those clipper thingys are & rubber bands all orderly.

AFTER: Just needed a HAIR label.

And under that drawer is my TEETH drawer. Technically that's under right?

BEFORE:

This wasn't SO bad either, just a little jumbled.

Clean & Naked

AFTER

I organized, threw out some berry floss that nobody liked, relocated those DENTEK picky things (I hate those things they hurt my teeth but my husband like them, let's move them to his side!) and labeled the drawer.

So there is one more drawer which is directly under the bathroom sink.

BEFORE:

This drawer holds hair utensils, eyeglasses, nail stuff, my razors, his razors, his clippers, and one of his overnight bags. Oh yeah and a little face powder.

Shiny Clean 

This drawer has movable dividers in the larger portion of the drawer. The first are is HAIR where my hot rollers and blow dryer go.

Next area is NAIL, where I tossed a bunch of colors that were icky and then just tidied up a bit.

This area holds his overnight bag (this is where I threw those DENTAK things), his razors and my razors.

EYEGLASSES . . . really? Do I need 5 pairs? I have an appointment next month, I'll donate half of them then.

Last area is for my IRONS

AFTER:

It looks a lot better!

1st Basket Ball Game

I played basketball in middle school and then city league my freshman year of high school, but I have NEVER seen that much intensity and aggresion in any of the games I played from the opposing 4th grade team. I was a little nervous at first because Maya is so soft hearted but she did great, she kept up and really tried hard to "get in" and "stay in" there. If this is a prelude to what the upcoming games are going to be like; I'm sure the WNBA will be scouting soon.

Great Job Baby Girl!

21 Days to Getting Organized Day 13

Day 13 The Medicine Cabinet

This was a fun one for me. I have few different places that are "medicine cabinets" to me so here's the tour:

BEFORE:

Here she is in all her glory, stuffed full of all sorts of beautifiers.

Clean

During my cleaning, I decided to throw on a little of this since I found it . . .

AFTER

I group HIS BEAUTIFICATIONS and HER BEAUTIFICATIONS together.

Then grouped my Philosophy in another container and left the rest in "clusters" of his and her areas.

My little love note from Maya, she wrote it a couple years ago and I look at it every morning and smile.

Next "Medicine Cabinet"

When I lived in an apartment I didn't have a medicine cabinet so I bought this tubs and labeled them . . . we've been in this house for 6 years now!

BEFORE:

These tubs have worked great, except the two that are labeled MEDICINE aren't very specific. When I have a cold the last thing I want to do is rummage through tubs finding the NyQuil.

I started with the CHILDRENS MEDICINE because I've been ignoring this one for awhile. I knew there was some sort of purple liquid medicine spilled on the bottom and it was a super sticky mess. I just never took the time to clean it.

This is me holding the bin upright and all the stuff stuck to bottom and sides . . .ehhh! Shame on me!

I cleaned the tubs, wiped off all the medicines, found out that BAND-AID has braille on each box (who knew, how cool is that!) and tossed everything that was expired. This is what was left. Beware if you try this at home, make sure you don't throw anything away that isn't a top to say your temporal thermometer cause then you have to dig through the trash with the ooey gooey sticky purple stuff.

This was another BEFORE tub, mostly stomach medicines but not all.

Once again I cleaned the tub, wiped the medicines and tossed the expireds.

Ooohhh on a side note, have you ever used this? It's the best for burns. Stops the throbbing right away! LOVE it!

The last MEDICINE tub, mostly cold medication but a lot of other junk too.

Cleaned, wiped and tossed. Whew that was fun and really pretty easy once I got over my anxiety of throwing away unused expired items. Dumb I know.

BEFORE Label

AFTER Label

All done!

Lastly: The Under Counter Medicine Cabinet

BEFORE:

Cluster

I took everything out, cleaned the cubby, tossed junk, and realize I need to use what I have before buying something else. Then I grouped like items with like items, stored what was used most up front.

This was a little cleaver and dorky all wrapped up into one. I re-purposed the tampon dividers that come in the multi-pak with like items. The cubby is large and all the tubes were hard to load in and stay put. Thank you Tampax!

AFTER this is still a work in progress since there are SO many items that are almost gone but I couldn't bare to throw them out!

That's all for my MEDICINE "CABINETS"!