We are all in a tizzy. Now we have the massive bulk items, i.e. 5 lb. bags of veggies, 4 to 6 boxes of pizza, toilet paper, paper towels, and napkins from the box store. Now where to put everything?
- Garage: utilize your vertical space. If you have shelving organize and go through the shelves for discard and make remove for non -perishable items.
- If you’re handy the hardware stores are open. Buy 6’ solid wood plywood and brackets
And place on the walls of your garage. Take off all outer cardboard packaging and stack paper products on the shelves. Can use the cardboard from packaging in between items to keep them straight.
- If the products are in sight you won’t over buy again.
2. Refrigerator
- Clean out old frozen items and discard.
- Remove excess packing of meats and put in zip lock gallon bags and label contents and date.
- A 5 lb. bag of veggies reduce and put in smaller zip lock plastic bags so it’s easier to grab a smaller bag for meals. Make sure all bags are securely zipped to eliminate freezer burn.
- Water: If you have gallon jugs of water it’s heavy and bulky. Those items need to be placed on lower shelves or on the floor.
- Re-organize your hall closet floor. Hopefully we are done with boot weather but store heavy gallon jugs on the floor of hall closet.
- Consider buying smaller bottles of water in a package. Take them out of the packaging and put into your wine cooler, or beer refrigerator.
4. “Ever Green Plastic Bags”- Green Bags provide a completely natural method of removing ethylene gas from ripening fruits and vegetables. Now there’s a safe way to store food that naturally extends the life of your produce. Green Bags are 100% completely safe for food storage. Store potatoes, garlic, onions and more.
5. Declutter current pantry, laundry, guest bedrooms, and closets. Since we are home anyway, it’s a NO BRAINER!
- Discard spices a year or older. . They lose their potency after a year,
- Pantry, take everything out and wipe the shelves, vacuum the floors. Line shelves with wax paper cheaper and use up that wax paper you’ve had for years,
- Laundry room –discard old rags, saved plastic grocery store bags, empty cleaning bottles (recycle plastic) Aerosols are considered hazardous waste.
- You’re probably not having guests during this time, clean out the closets and drawers, if you put supplies there it’s out of sight and out of mind and you forget you have it.
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