Organize My Life: Game Closet

In my family its all about the games. Growing up we would go to Grandma's house and play games almost every Sunday. Back then it was simple games of Scum (Corporation in my family they didn't like the name Scum) or Hand and Foot. But now it has evolved into bigger and more complicated games that we just can't get enough of. I love games! When Andrew and I married he would complain sometime about how he just wanted to sit and talk on Sundays sometimes and not play games. He was getting burned out. Now I have brought his to the gray side.(gray since it's not really bad except for the pocket book sometimes...) Our game closet has grown and it won't be getting any smaller soon. In fact we just bought 4 new games. All we have played before except Shadows over Camelot. In case your curious we also bought Stone Age, Fresco, and expansions for Dominion and Cities and Knights of Catan (FINALLY!). With getting the new games I needed to make room for them since, well, our game closet looks like this:

 So dis-organized and a little scary though it has been worse in the past. I love the bottom shelf with pledge, scissors, chalk and pillows! Almost a junk drawer down there. This is my first offical spring cleaned area. I got a bucket of suds out and washed the area top to bottom and got all the missing pieces back into their boxes. It makes me wish I had "Spring cleaned" the previous organization..... Here is how it looks now:

 So much nicer.  If you can see in the picture we have a lid of a show box in our game closet. This is for pens, paper and for any missing pieces that we find around and are too lazy to put them back away. This helps to keep them from being lost forever as well as not having to go and search for paper and pens.

I counted our games I was curious how many. We have 50 adult games and 15 children games in addition we have about 8 decks of cards that aren't assigned to a specific game. Wow, though I'm not surprised.

At the bottom there I have a blankets, pillows, and step stools. (I am kind of short)

I'm so happy that I got this looking good again it was overdue. Next week will be the Toy closet

Organize My Life: Food storage room

My food storage room has been really scary for sometime. I get home from shopping and just plop all the food storage on the floor. Months worth of groceries were piled on top of each other. Luckily nothing that would spoil, thank goodness. Here's a little picture of it. I can't find the one of the other side! But just picture a pile of boxes on top of each other almost touching the ceiling! With the ShopVac somewhere buried under it.

Here is how it is now:

Look at all the nicely placed cans of everything. Makes me smile!

On the other side, see all the bottles I put up last summer? Some of it is from family the previous year before. We had to purchase the black shelves for this project. All the applesauce and most of the pears had no home and were in boxes all over. It's nice to have the extra space.

Don't you just LOVE the 2 different strips of carpet? Blue and brown go so well together I just couldn't choose...HAHA nope that's thanks to the previous owners.

Now I told you I was a coupon-er. I have really only just started and I'm not a FREAK about it,yet, but I have my resources that I use and receive 5 Sunday newspapers from Herald Journal, and my in-laws keep the Redplum they get in the mail since I don't receive one at mine. The website I use is SavvyShopperDeals The people that make up that site are from Utah County so some of the unadvertised sales aren't the same as here but everything else I have been able to find! They also don't do Fresh Market but that's the only grocery store they don't in cache valley. So if you have been wanting to coupon but don't know how to go about it go the the website and learn. They also have classes all over Utah to teach you. I went to one in Logan and won some free stuff! :)

This is my favorite shelf. Why? I received everything for 1.00 or less. Mostly less. All the toothpaste (except 3D whitening), toothbrushes and floss I got for free. It also show what I've learned, and that is NEVER pay more than 50 cents for things in the bathroom.

Organize My Life! Craft Room

Getting Organized is one of my new years resolutions so posting it here in blog land will make me do what has been needing to be done for SO long. I must warn you I will be using graphic pictures of my horribly messy home. Those with weak constitutions towards the filthy should not look at these pictures. You have been warned!
With the start of the this blog I knew what my first room HAD to be, my craft room. My craft room is the go to room when company comes to stash everything in there to hide the mess. So here are a few images to give you an idea what I had to conquer after the holidays.

All sorts of junk on top of everything else

 

 

This is the closet! I can't even see the floor!

Ok the torture is over. I hope that makes everyone feel good about how their homes look! It took hours and hours and all sorts containers and boxes to get things together nicely. Here are some after pictures:

The desk now is organized and has the "fix it" pile under it

All stamps and tools needed to finish those projects found in here

Closet: present wrapping stuff above and paper storage on shelf

The whole closet. Can you believe that is what the floor looks like?

And finally it is done! I have a lot of thing I want to make to add to the organization and decorations. This time is just for the original clean up and organize. I'll have an updates with the different projects I add to the room, like with this room I want to add a shelf in the closet to put my buttons and other containers of embellishments right there for my own card making station. I have so many ideas we'll see if I can get the time and the money to do it!
How is your creative area looking? Does it need a little sprucing up? I hope this motivates you to get yours taken care of! Next week will be taking on the filing cabinet...Oh dear....