Simple Journey Ministries Presents

Keep It Together Girl!

FREE Storage Options

We all need containers, bins, baskets, and a variety of other options to organize the items within our homes. To complicate matters we typically need these items in every room and for items that encompass every aspect of our lives. That’s a lot of stuff to store. Purchasing baskets, boxes, containers, baskets, bins, etc can be costly, even when we are able to get them at a low cost. On top of all that we may find ourselves in need of containers at a time when we just can’t (or don’t want to) spare a cent on them! Well, there is an option that may get you the storage space you need and is completely FREE!

This is going to seem like a no brainer once you read it, but for some reason we often overlook this option. Use what you already have in your home. Do you have a stash of baskets that you have been saving up in case you need gift baskets? USE THEM! Are there half filled boxes, bins, drawers, shelves, etc that can be simply re-organized to store more items? USE THEM! Do you have areas of your home that have empty containers that could be used for storage such as cat litter buckets, paint buckets, plastic tubs, etc? USE THEM! Look to containers that are in use, but you have not opened in a long time. Are there items in those containers that you no longer need? Give the items away, sell them at a yard sale, sell them on eBay, or donate them. As for the containers that used to house those items, USE THEM!

We all have containers in abundance in our home. Yet it seems we have been conditioned to think we must purchase new containers every time we have more items in need of organization in our home. This simply isn’t true. By looking to what you do have, using your stock to its full potential, and thinning out already stored items to make room for new you will have containers and storage options that are more than simple and frugal; they are free storage containers!

These are my thoughts.