Week 4: Organizing Other Rooms

I have lived in my place for a little over a year, and though I optimistically call my spare room a craft room, it has really been a junk room since I moved in.  It was were the unpacked boxes went, the stuff my parents were no longer going to store went, were anything that didn't have a place went.  Which is the crux of the problem when cleaning it out.  Things ended up in my craft room because they didn't have a place to go.

Last week I divided the room into three piles: keep, throw away, and move out.  This week I began tackling the issue of what to do with the move out pile.  Which meant cleaning and organizing by bathroom and linen closet.  For the linen closet I bought plastic storage drawers to sit on one of the shelves.  My make-up, travel sized shampoo/conditioner, and extra toothbrushes and toothpaste moved in here. The bathroom cabinet under the sink got a complete makeover with whatever I had on hand.  

I had originally planned to buy drawer organizers for the bathroom, but I am a cheap skate and balked at paying three dollars for a small plastic tray without any divisions, or seventeen for a whole organization system for one drawer.  So, I got creative.  I had a bunch of glass jars in my craft room (you can't recycle glass in my condo, and I dislike throwing it in the trash) which I decided to use to gather similar things in the drawers, these along with some small plastic containers I already had made for a good makeshift drawer organization system.

I only have a before and after image for the first drawer.  I got involved in figuring out where things should go and forgot the camera for the others.

And the final product with everything in its place:

The craft room is still a mess, but things are slowly finding homes in other areas of my place.