Making the most of Storage

Well, I bought some hangers that have several "layers" on them, so you can hang multiple items on one hanger and save a lot of room. I'd look into things like that if you want to free up closet space!

Rectangular Baskets in the hall linen closet. I have them labeled....RX (medicine), Hair (shampoo, gel etc) Dental (toothbrushes, floss), Makeup....

I did this when I was unemployed. My food pantry is a mess.

I don't have room for too many things to begin with! lol

I have a dresser with shallow drawers, so I can't fit as much as I want in them. I don't even have a place for my pajamas, which I wear most often. I usually keep some of them in a laundry basket for now. I'll have to wait until I live in a house or something, so I can have a place for everything lol and another small dresser that matches my current one I suppose... I wouldn't have anywhere to put one in the apartment, which is why I haven't gotten one yet.

I don't have room for all the kitchen gadgets either. We have some sitting in the living room area. Same for if we buy (non-refrigerated) food in bulk.. it's on the kitchen table because we don't have a large enough pantry or kitchen. It's a VERY small kitchen.... lol that is one of the top things I am looking forward to changing when we move.. I want at least a medium sized kitchen and enough space for our stuff. Even our fridge is outdated and doesn't hold enough room for the things we'd want to buy in bulk lol our freezer space is toooooo tiny, too.

I do find that if there is less in the wardrobe, you can see more of what you have. So less is really more.

Your place sounds rather petite, Heather. Credit to you for making the most of it.

Hope that didn't come across as patronising.

Heather, you need a spider to take care of those roaches!

Jen, it is reckoned that roaches will be the most prolific survivors of any nuclear disaster.

You need one like Jen's

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Also when I was unemployed I went through herb and spice rack and threw out all the ones that had expired, bought new ones and put in black marker the new expiration date so I could easily tell when I need to through it out.
I also did that with my pantry stuff.

However it is a mess now. I couldn't keep it up.

I have my summer dresses in the loft, with one exception, just in case the sun shine takes me by surprise.

Well actually I have two, just in case it happens twice.

Val and I compartmentalize. I have different little bins for my meds, needles and threads, loose change, et cetera.(notice I didn't say ex cetera) I know exactly where items are now; it wasn't always this way.

I like your ice cube tray idea. I really don't keep my earrings organized; I have small hoops, large hoops, dangles . . . I'll have to work on something.

i am yes!! seriously, i am.
my prev house had 4 floors, i had a big basement, which was where my OH kept motorbikes and tools etc. we had a big kitchen, a pretty small living room and 4 big bedrooms as wel as a tiny bathroom, at first we had the house normal, used only one bedroom until M was born the rest were full of junk really,which i didnt really care about, out of sight out of mind and all that. one of the rooms was a smoking room as it was right at the top of the house, it was also where our dogs slept, 
we then decided to make more of space, just before M was due, actually 4 days after my contractions started, we decided to move our living room upstairs into what was our bedroom, what was the living room then became the dining room and we then had 3 bedrooms, one of which was ours and Malakais, the other 2 was still full of junk, in our kitchen there wasnt much cupboard or work top space and in our kitchen we have kettle & tea, coffee sugar pots, a bullet (food blender) toaster, double chip pan, a million plates, cups and glasses plus 100 pans, we ended up getting a book case off OHs gran for all our pans, and another unit with a small cupboard and 2 small drawers, we then used the book case in Ms room for baby stuff and the other for pans in the kitchen, other than that we literally have no storage sense.

i now live in a house with only 2 floors, a open plan living room kitchen, not as luxurious as it sounds, its tiny and horrid, theres a very small bathroom and 3 small bedrooms, one bedroom is literally crammed full of boxes and boxes and bags and shit!!

i need help

i just cant do it, ive tried, and failed. Ive managed to get half way there with my clothes, but i have a big box of teddies which will go no where, the rest is just literally loads of random crap, im sure most of it is my OHs but he says its all mine lol

i found this the other day, i think im going to take some tricks from that