Day 1: The Pantry

So for the first day of this challenge, I decided to attack the pantry!

Before

When we bought the house, these wonderful little shelves were already attached to the pantry door. I have no clue where you could find them, but they really are helpful!

*DISCLAIMER - I am into couponing - I am aware we don't need 2 boxes of Trix. Or 6 boxes of pasta. Or 3 cases of water. But when things are on sale and cheap, I buy them.*

Thankfully, our pantry hasn't had a chance to get super unorganized since we've only lived in our house for a few months. My main problem is because of couponing, it's easy for me to let things go out of date before I use them. Cooking for only two people can be difficult at times (especially when your husband doesn't like to eat leftovers!) so my main goal of this project was to go through everything, throw away what was out of date and re-organize!

Here's everything that got thrown away. Thankfully it wasn't a whole lot, but I hate being so wasteful! But that is the purpose of going through this - now we will only keep what we will actually use in the pantry :)

Here's an after shot of the beautifully organized door. I got rid of several old bags of chips and cookies, which left room for the cooking sauces!

Here's a close up of all the sauces. They were taking up a ton of space on the shelves just sitting next to each other. Thankfully they can squish into these baskets easily, allowing me to open up an entire shelf for snacks!

Here's an overview of our organized pantry. It really doesn't look like I threw much away - I know. But things are much more organized and facing out so I can actually see what we have. When things are doubled up and you have layers and layers of boxes, the things in the back are less likely to get used. This way I can see everything and keep track of what we have!