Making things easier....for $30 or less

You can buy happiness...

I have a renovation list for my wee home that's as long as my arm.  Big ticket items such as replacing the guttering, reinsulating the ceiling, updating the light fixtures, doubling glazing the windows, insulating under the floor, replacing the wardrobes, replacing the entire kitchen...blah, blah, blah...okay...now I'm curled up in the fetal position on the floor, sobbing, just thinking about how much this is going to cost.

The kitchen is number one on my wish list, because, let's face it, a new kitchen would be so "pretty" to look at, especially as my home is open plan.  Unfortunately it is much lower on the priority list as pretty doesn't keep me warm and dry.

 

Unless I win the lottery sometime soon, I have a couple of choices.  That is to lie here and wallow in self pity thinking about what I can't do, or give myself a kick in the pants, pull myself up off the floor, and do something to make my life a little easier, more practical and a wee bit prettier.

So I've come up with a plan, and that is once a month to do something that will make life in my home a little better, but for no more than $30.  That's 30 kiwi dollars as I'm from way, way down under, in fact I live under the land down under.

Unfortunately updating my flower pots (last week) doesn't count, because I blew an entire $31.22 on that particular venture. 

 

What to do, what to do?  I asked myself while rummaging through the bathroom cabinet drawers in search of a hair tie.  Good grief.  What a mess.  There appears to be stuff of unknown origins lurking in there.  Did something move?  Is there a lifeform hiding in the drawer? If only I was more organised...if only...aha!

 

So off I went to a storage solution shop, hair a mess, as I never did find the tie, and came back armed with plastic containers designed to make my bathroom cabinet a place of serenity and peace.  It didn't actually say that on the labels attached to the containers, but I'm sure that's what the manufacturer meant.
 

 

Step one

Face the fear and open those drawers.....

 

 

Step two

Take everything....and I mean everything...out

 

 

Step three

Wipe clean and re-line drawers, then place the containers in a way that will work for your contents

 

 

Step four

Clean each item and place back in the appropriate container - keep like products together

 

 

Step five

Rehome those items that somehow just seem to creep in

 

 

Step six

Make those hard choices and let the old/had-it/just plain scary items go...I mean, seriously!

 

 

Step seven

Grab some command hooks (I had a couple in my top cupboard for those pictures I never got around to hanging) to place those often used hair items in an easy to reach area (down the side of my cabinet, out of sight)

 

 

Step Eight

Stand back and admire your handy-work - grab some flowers from the garden and place them in a vase (for the "pretty), then enjoy the feeling of calm you will experience every time you open those drawers

 

 

 

 

Yeah - okay, that bottom drawer still needs a little work!  I've never claimed to be a minimalist.

Total Cost - $23.97 for containers
Flowers - FREE from the house of GinnyB
Time saved from not having to rummage through a load of "stuff" every morning - PRICELESS

 

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