Useful Inexpensive Organizing Ideas For The Home.
I love the Container Store as much as the next person, but I really love it when I find creative ways to organize. Especially since I’ve been working on re-organizing my home this summer. Even better if the idea repurposes something or if it’s an inexpensive organizing idea (the Container Store can be pricey). I came across quite a few Creative & Inexpensive Organizing Ideas for the home that I wanted to share with you!
You don’t need a big budget to get your home organized. With these clever organizing tips and tricks, you’ll be able to get your home organized the frugal way!
Creative & Inexpensive Organizing Ideas
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Getting organized doesn’t mean you have to spend loads and loads of money! You can easily create a great organization system for your home in no time on a budget with a little bit of creative thinking and planning. Thankfully, I have many ideas for you that can help! Each of these inexpensive organizing ideas is borderline genius and have myself asking why I didn’t think of it sooner. Before you get started, take a peek at these tips to help you along the way:
- Think outside the box. You don’t have to use every item you have for its intended use. As you will see from the ideas below, you can get creative and use things you wouldn’t normally think of. You’ll be amazed at what you can come up with that’s already in your home.
- Get rid of clutter. Do you feel like your home is being overrun with clutter and lots of stuff? This is a normal issue many of us face, but before you dive into organizing, get rid of the junk! It’s so much easier to accomplish tons when you don’t have unwanted items in your way. If you need help figuring out what to get rid of, check out our post on 100 things you should throw away.
- Give yourself time. Assuming it took a while to accumulate so much stuff, you can’t expect it to get perfectly organized in a day. It takes time, energy, and focus, but you can get it all organized! Just give yourself a break here and there and don’t expect perfection right off the bat or you may wear yourself out and give up.
1. Magnetic Strip
Over at the Treasures And Travels blog, they reorganized their bathroom and came up with this genius solution. Hang a magnetic strip on your door or on the wall to stick all those loose items on. It’s a game-changer!
2. Repurposed Dish Drainer
Brenda at Cozy Little House had this really cute idea to use a red dish drainer as a file holder.
3. DIY Toy Hanger
Is it just me, or do you feel like stuffed animals take over your home? This stuffed animal hanger is a great way to get them off of the floor and organized! It’s Always Autumn gives you detailed instructions on how to do this!
4. Easy Banana Hook
Create your own banana hanger with just a C-hook & S-hook and save some counter space. Petit Elefant shows you how.
5. Cracker Box Lid Holder
Here’s a cracker box lid holder for all those plastic tops from Crafty Journal.
6. DVD & CD’s Organizer
Organize your dvd/cd’s by storing them in their sleeves via Hi Sugarplum!
7. Repurposed Sink Caddies
I love this idea of using sink caddies to hold those little packets in your pantry. See the whole amazing pantry at Make Bake Celebrate.
8. Repurposed Candle Organizer
Use Craft-O-Maniac’s idea and use old glass candle jars for bathroom storage. They are perfect for storing q-tips, cotton balls, or lots of other things.
9. Side-Wall Pantry Idea
I also love this idea to use the space on the sidewall for little items in your pantry from Domestic Imperfection.
10. Custom Drawer Organizers
Make your own custom drawer organizers from cereal boxes. The Stonybrook House shows you how.
I hope you found some great ideas here for inexpensive ways to organize your home!
Do you have any clever frugal ways that you organize an area of your home?
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Great ideas! The dish drainer file holder is so cute! I like to repurpose and use what I have as much as possible for organizing–saves so much money. I like the Container Store too–so many fun organizing options.
It is isn’t it! If you’ve never visited Brenda you should her house is full of cute stuff and she’s like me and likes color!
You’re such a great tip junkie! I looked for the soup caddy at Pinterest to repin. The link was no longer working so I created one of my own. The fact that the desk orgqnization also has a candy dish filled with jelly beans is not lost on me! = D
The link on my Organized Nest page for the soda caddy works because I spent about 20 minutes trying to find the original link! I didn’t use a lot of good ideas because they had no original link or explanation of where they got the photo but I pinned them to that board. Most of the time you can figure stuff out just by the photo but in my blog posts I need to have a link.
I’ve been looking for milkglass vases & dishes that are large for a long time – no luck so far! I’d love to use them in my desk organization. The jellybeans look pretty in the cup, fortunately I don’t like jellybeans so it’s not something I would do 🙂
You have some really good ideas here, thanks for sharing. I am always looking for good organizing tips!
Thanks for showing my little red dish drainer, Manuela!
Brenda
Thanks for the great idea roundup, Manuela!
Lots of creative and organized ideas.
Judy
There are some good tips here. Thanks for sharing them – I’m going to try a couple of them. They may be just the ‘trick’ for my pantry.
~Adrienne~
Great ideas Manuela! Love using things instead of trashing them:) Have a blessed weekend, HUGS!
You always have the best ideas! Love your fall mantel and thanks for the sweater pumpkin tutorial links. Mimi
Thanks for such great organizing ideas. I especially love the white glassware to hold office supplies – everything looks better in white dishes.
Patty at Home and Lifestyle Design
Lots of good ideas – thanks for sharing them.
Hope you are enjoying the weekend.
I’ve been trying all sorts of possibilities for lid holders and that was one I totally missed. Great Idea..
Such clever ideas. I have to say that with just the 2 of us, we have very little to store in our pantry. We don’t eat much canned or packaged food and we shop almost daily for fresh food. When our kids come to visit they complain that we don’t have any junk food on hand.
some great ideas! I have to say, I am sort of addicted to the Container Store!
Thanks so much for sharing my organizational tip of a magazine holder for storing your tin foil and plastic wraps! I also really love some of the other creative and inspiring ideas especially the dish caddy as a file storage system!