When you have the time - why not?

One of the first things that I wanted to do once I retired was do a complete purge and re-organization of our pantry.  We're fortunate that we have large pantry, not walk-in large but large closet large, but it's probably been six years since the last time I cleaned it out.

This is our pantry prior to my clean out.

 

Since I now have a pretty good idea on what is used the most and least that we store in our pantry, I kept that in mind when re-organizing each shelf and to use the space in the panty much more efficiently.  I also knew that there was probably some things that could be thrown out also.

Do you see the rectangle containers with the blue lids?  Those are Tupperware containers that I purchased right after we were married 27 years ago.  They were expensive back then, but obviously well worth the money since they are still going strong after 27 years.

It took me three days off and on to get the pantry re-organized and I spent about $50 bucks on a new Sterilite 2-drawer cart from Target, some new storage containers from Dollar Tree and two new OXO turntables that I found at Lowe's.

When one of my girlfriends was over last weekend and she saw the finished product, she turned to me and said "You have way too much time on your hands".......why yes I do........{{smile}}

Stay tuned to see the results.............