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Archive for February 26th, 2008

Crystal at Biblical Womanhood has been posting weekly challenges to make our homes a haven mainly through organization and not putting off those things that we tend to ignore. This week’s challenge was to organize a drawer. I contemplated what drawer I could organize, but we really don’t have that many drawers in our home unless you count the ones in the dresser and those are fairly neat. Then, I went to get some garlic powder today and I realized I found the perfect drawer to organize! Whenever we’re cooking and need spices, I’m reminded of a treasure hunt as we dig for the correct container. Here’s the “before” photo…

Scary, isn’t it? In about 5 minutes, I had everything organized as well as found one container with an expiration date of almost a year ago. Oops! That container went in the trash, and I also marked the calendar to check the dates again in about three months because some other spices expire soon. At first I attempted to organize everything alphabetically, but then certain containers wouldn’t fit under others so I did it as close to alphabetical as I could with the more popular spices in front. Isn’t the organized version much better?