More Organizing- Pour A Cup Of coffee

I've received a bunch of questions about organizing 

so for what it's worth, here is some more of how I do it.

Take whatever you can use from me, as goodness knows,

 there are thousands of fancy ideas out there on how to do it

 while spending lots of money. 

I know this is pretty mundane stuff but maybe it'll spark an 

idea that will work for you, and it really 

answers some questions for some folks.  

The week we moved in I added these two shelves in the wasted 

awkward space next to my dryer. I'm not a fan of having appliances out

on the counter, not even the toaster. Most of them are stored here along with 

misc items.

top shelf -Sheet pans and broiler pan upright far left, 

magic pot, food processor, kitchenaid

2 shelf- hard to see but large electric griddle, toaster, 

bin of tall liquid freezer storage containers 

3rd shelf - bin of different colored drink coolers 

used when kids come, (less dishes) bin of freezer meal containers, 

lidded box of vacuum sealer bags,  

battery storage container on top 

Laundry baskets- (see later)

Same shelves

Note  the pole I added for wet clothing hangers 

You'll see where I hang later

View above those shelves.

ceiling was slanted so perfect spot for wraps storage.

I'm slowly editing these out for reusable as I can afford.

2nd shelf you see with basket holds all the misc oven bakeware,

cake pans, microwave bacon pan, muffin tins and the like.

White basket holds silicon baking mats and dough rolling mat.

Light on small shelf below so that I can see the laundry baskets

on the floor one for kitchen towels, the other for cleaning cloths

Two top baskets - one holds the wood letters for my large message board

and the other my spice grinder, coffee grinder, rice cooker

Middle shelf has crockpot/ air fryer thing and my blender

small shelf below holds vacuum sealer and detergent pods and dryer sheets. 

My son bought me the cute containers they say coffee tea sugar.

I didn't use on counter so I turned them around- win win

Continuing to the left

top shelf -specialty cake pans, misc baking stuff in large basket and my deep fryer pan

tucked in and on raised racks are serving trays, reusable paper towels, pizza peels

electric extra burner, pizza stone, and a favorite dansk pan I don't want scratched

bottom shelf has cooling racks, med - lg nested glass storage containers 

basket of small storage containers

a small bin of food processor discs and blades

2nd basket has padded hangers for wet clothes

On the wall are aprons, a bag of vacuum accessories, 

A pouch for zippered laundry bags for delicates

a pouch for flashlight and ice bag

a pouch for cleaning cloths and a basket for dryer lint so I don't have to 

walk to trash multiple times on laundry days and the kids just put on 

top of machine when they lived here so...

I mostly use this basket as my loads are small

and it's prettier than plastic

There were bifold doors here when we bought, that I removed, as

no one ever closed them, and coming in thru the garage meant 

BANG BANG BANG all dang day.

That metal hanging thing on garage door flips up and holds my 

line dry items perfectly.

One of my favorite very useful tools.

Walter's dog door to the garage, there is another in garage to the outside dog run.

He was trained to use this, but now uses when I'm not available 

to let him out the back door to yard.

Are you still with me? 

Here's the thing, after looking at all this

It may have occurred to you that I organize so stuff doesn't fall over

all the time, is easy to retrieve, and find. 

I cannot tolerate moving things to get to other things. 

When you are busy and that happens, 

it can be days before you return to that mess,

and even more mess has been added since ,especially if you live

 with other folks, 

and kids, well, nothing gets put away.

It's not fancy and photos are lousy and dark

but it was dark when I thought about talking about it.

Nearly every client I ever worked with that had homes out of control,

had horrible storage set ups and habits.

The way things were stored or organized -they were destined to fail.

If you constantly have messes, it is the fault of your system.

I refuse to spend quality time cleaning up after things that 

belong somewhere they are not. If your belongings have value,

then treat them as such.

Of course, purging the unused and unneeded goes a long way,

but that's another topic I've covered many times.

If you have the funds, hire help.

If you have the funds, buy beautiful storage things.

If you are like me, ( I never have extra funds),

use what low cost things you can afford

and make do. All the baskets and shelf helpers 

you see were all bought over time, 

years actually, and with coupons and from discount stores. 

No one run, full car load, to the container store for me.

In fact all those fancy $$ appliances - 

gifts from kids over the years.

Maybe so they have them here to use 

when they cook for the Stoddard gang? lol

Praying for Ukraine