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organized? check. cheap? double check. this is 32 smart dollar store ideas to declutter your kitchen by natalie brown 1. organize your fridge with a few small bins. it’s pretty straightforward, all you need is to purchase 6 baskets in 2 different sizes and colors from the dollar tree and store all of your fridge ingredients in them. learn more on how brittany organize her fridge at the domestic geek blog. 2. employ bins in your pantry and turn from this to this. first empty everything out of your pantry.
purchase some new baskets and bins from the dollar store and then re-organized as you placed things back in your pantry with this zone system. put labels and tags as a quick way to see where everything is and you've officially makeover your pantry. 3. use small baskets to clean up your cutlery drawer. it also works well for rounding up everything from tea to tylenol. 4. use tension rods to store your cutting boards and baking sheets so they’re easily accessible. use two rods on both sides of each item, spacing them according to the dimensions of individual pieces and you’ll be able to see and easily reach everything you have. 5. buy a basic wire rack and some zip ties to keep them on the inside of your cabinet door.
screw the wire organizer onto your cabinet door make sure that when you close the door there is enough clearance for anything inside plus your organizer and cutting boards also make sure you put it low enough so your tallest cutting board will fit when you close the cabinet door. since the bottom is open slats and the board would just slip out simple tied on a few zip ties and trimmed the excess off. easy in, easy out and nothing falls over when you take one out. 6. use magazine files to hold your placemats and paper goods this is a really cheap way to corral paper goods.
you could find this magazine file in the dollar section at target and put the paper plates in it. making use of the vertical space on your kitchen, too! 7. pick out some small baskets for canned food organization then label them according to type these nifty little wire baskets are available at the dollar store. next grabbed a large and small can and then try put them in to see if they fit 8. go hardcore pinterest and transfer all of your dry goods to matching glass canisters and plastic stack able lunch containers. yes, they do sell these at the dollar store.
granted, they aren't super duper leak proof so don't use these for storing leftovers in the fridge but for what we needed them for, perfecto! 9. line your drawers with inexpensive (non-seasonal) gift wrap. sure it’s not a ~permanent~ solution, but it’s a cute way to decorate your kitchen and protect the bottom of your drawers. and it’s easy enough to swap out (or remove completely) if you get tired of it or if it gets torn or dirty. lay the paper in the drawers, creasing the excess paper in the corners and then use a piece of double-stick tape in each corner of the drawer to hold the paper.
10. pick up a binder to house all of your favorite recipes. or… to house the recipe indexes from your collection of cooking magazines 11. attach magnets to small plastic baskets to make a nifty spice rack that fits on the side of your fridge. hot glue 5 magnets to the top of each organizer and 4 to the bottom of each equally spaced. place spice racks on your fridge. you could also use removable hooks to hang them on a wall if the side of your fridge isn’t available 12. pair s-hooks with binder clips for some simple pot storage.
buy a bunch of s-hooks and big binder clips from a local dollar store. hang up the pots and pans with the s-hooks. hang up the lids by gripping the binder clips on the glass lids and hooking them on the s-hooks with the handle openings. very functional 13. get a few self-adhesive hooks to make an easy-grab station for your measuring spoons. this trick especially good for frequent bakers 14. line your refrigerator shelves with wax paper, plastic wrap, or cling film. it’ll make those inevitable spills and sticky spots extra easy to clean up.
learn more on how to deep clean your fridge on the 36th avenue. 15. cover leftovers with shower caps. this is particularly great for oddly-shaped containers, if you hate wrestling with plastic wrap. the shower caps is much more user-friendly and a single cap can be saved and reused countless times. 16. use magazine holder for kitchen rack. manage those food cans in the most amazing ways ever while saving a great deal of counter space at the same time. flattened and spray painted white two bobby pins to make sure that your stuff stays in perfect place.
17. use a lazy susan to organize the fridge. installed lazy susan at the top shelf of your fridge and with a simple rotate you could reach all jars you need. so, so handy. 18. dollar store dish racks. use a dish rack from dollar store to put your pans and baking sheets in their perfect places in just a matter of few minutes. 19. towel bar to organize pots and pans. that empty space on the sides of your kitchen cabinet is surely not meant to go waste.
all you need to do is get a short rail from the dollar store and use it to hang the complete range of kitchen pots, or at least, the ones that you use more often. 20. diy a produce rack. struggling with arranging for a perfect space to store all your fruits and vegetables in the pantry? then create a gorgeous diy produce rack of your very own by using a simple hanging shower caddy from the dollar store and a few command hooks. it will help you attach the rack to the side of your cabinet or even a kitchen wall that’s got some empty space. 21. hang oddly shaped extras.
some tools like blenders and food processing attachments comes with odd shapes. with command hooks from dollar store you can now hang them on your cabinet walls. 22. under the kitchen sink organization. use these stacking bins, each cost $1 to keep all kinds of loose items such as sponges and small cleaning products like silver polish and the garbage disposal tabs. use inexpensive tension rod to hang your cleaner bottle. coupled with few small baskets from dollar store, under your kitchen sink would be perfect. 23. kitchen cabinet organization. using containers to keep kitchen cabinet organized was an ingenious idea.
this is another example when stacking bins from dollar store come to rescue. it might take a few tweaks but the end result is so worth it. 24. hanging mason jars. utilize your cabinet bottom with mason jars from dollar store. here’s how you do it: first, wash and dry the jars thoroughly. find a good work surface to drill on, drill 2 holes about an inch apart in each lid and then screw each lid under your cabinet. fill the jars with whatever you want to keep handy
it's best to keep them away from a heat source that's it! your items are now conveniently stored and accessible with a few quick twists 25. diy symmetrical storage bottles use symmetrical storage bottles to keep your spice in place. add a few gorgeous craft labels to make sure you could find whatever you need at first sight and a plastic riser to create a lovely stepped effect so you can even see the bottles placed behind. 26. use pretend pull-outs drawers now you can bid goodbye to a messy storage section section and turn it into a well-managed space using cheap dollar store containers
making it extremely convenient for you to pull them out and grab whatever you need pull-outs drawer are perfect to grouped all sort of things you want to store in cabinet or shelf. add cute labels in front of each drawers and you’re set. 27. easy $1 diy spice racks. when you find it truly troublesome to grab the spice jars and bottles kept behind in the cluttered kitchen shelves all you need is to put bring the idea of spice racks to life. thanks to the dollar store, this incredible spice rack lets you use the vertical space of your kitchen cabinets to store the stuff in place without needing the complicated do-it-yourself skills 28. use a coat rack for mugs
forget the hoodies this set-up doubles as decor and utility — win-win 29. make a cake tin work harder want to combine two dollar store purchases to make one super savvy and functional piece? stack a tin on top of a candlestick to create a command center for your dish soap and scrubber. 30. desk organizer as cupboard divider. sort cookie sheets, cutting boards, and jelly-roll pans in the kitchen for easy access and no more cymbal-crashing sounds in an overstuffed cabinet. 31. cd case as recipe holder
easily display a recipe card during meal prep by opening the cd case and bending it back then place the card (after cutting it to fit, if necessary) on top. 32. think double-duty. no more messy cutlery in your drawers. use cheap mugs from dollar store to store spoon and fork cutlery with ease. and… that’s all… for more organizing with dollar store ideas, stay tune to our channel. hit the like button below, subscribe and share our videos with your friends. now go enjoy your organized kitchen and… all of the money you saved!
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