Project: Pantry

The next project I tackled from the 21-Day Challenge was the Pantry! I had organized it once not too long ago, but it had gotten messy and cluttered (funny how my house seems to make a habit of that!). 

The before...

And after...

As a part of cleaning out the pantry I moved a bunch of dog treats (and her personal jar of peanut butter) over to the storage area on top of the kennel/bed/dog house. It is so much better to have all those smelly dog treats out of the pantry and over where they are more useful! 

So, no huge changes, but just a nice clean out and a little organization to our pantry. I'm hoping I have time for a little bigger task this weekend...

Loads of Fun in the Laundry Room

I'm late to the party, but I have discovered a 21-day get organized challenge over at A bowl full of lemons. Cute blog. Uber-organized! Makes me feel inspired yet messy. Anyways....

Since I discovered this late and haven't had tons of time to complete any of the challenges, I'm going to incorporate as many of the applicable challenges as I can into the remainder of January. 

I've done some work on several of the areas (especially since I was already feeling motivated to be more organized in 2011) but top to bottom completed projects, so far I just have the laundry room. I think it was easiest since it is so small, but at least it is a start. And it had gotten pretty messy. Ugh. 

We have a lot of laundry! There is actually a hamper under that mess of clothes, not that you can tell. (although I don't know why the vacuum is in there too) I save all the laundry for Saturdays, so whenever Friday rolls around dirty clothes are everywhere. And we are only two people. I don't even want to think about how much more laundry comes with kiddos. Yikes. 

Another view. Hangers, bags, placemats I washed two weeks ago that I haven't put away... lovely. But now....

That looks better! I cleaned out and reorganized all my little baskets up top. Put away all the clean laundry. Washed all the dirty laundry. Now I just want one of those signs to go over the washer: LAUNDRY ROOM: DROP YOUR PANTS HERE. Those crack me up. I think I might order the vinyl sticker kind. If I have to be in that tiny little room, I might as well get a chuckle while I'm at it :)

I feel so good about getting the laundry room all nice and organized! I'm almost done with the pantry, so that will be coming up next...