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Hi everyone, it's Natalie from

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video is a collaboration with my new friend here on YouTube Michaela she lives in Canada and has the coolest house you've ever seen. I love how she shares that cleaning just keeps her calm and helped her with anxiety because I can totally relate to her you're going to love Mikayla's channel. I will have all her links in the description box and watch her

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I can't wait to see all the tips she's sharing, so here's what's happening. It was not so. I even organized my pantry and kitchen a long time ago, I reorganized things just a couple of months ago and it's about time I did it again, so here's a situation that my mother-in-law moved in yesterday and took her half with her. of the food we bought during quarantine, the rest is here on the counters behind me and my pantry is already pretty full. I mean, there's a lot of space and the way we buy food now is just a little bit. different than when I first organized it so I think it just needs a little bit of rearranging and honestly sometimes I feel like you just need to move things around a little bit because then it becomes like a new life and you see it better so that That's what I'm going to do today besides carrying all these things behind me to the pantry.

These are the objectives for today. First, I'll make sure everything fits inside our pantry to reorganize it to make it more functional. Three, purge everything. that we don't need or don't use and then four, I'm going to take an inventory of what we have so I have my computer here behind me and we have so many things and through that I didn't want to waste time writing it down so I'm going to do some lists on my computer, probably a Google spreadsheet, just to track everything we have so we know what we need to use what we have stored because we do.

I have some things I want to keep for a while, like some dry goods, because we just don't know when we'll have to quarantine them again, so I don't want to get rid of them completely, but they may be stored safely. up high, so I want to know if we have it anyway, so that's the plan I'm going to go for. I think three hours, I think it's reasonable, it's a long time, but it's also not a long time for the whole pantry, so I think I can do this is what I plan to do in an hour.

I'm going to wipe these counters behind me and take everything out of the pantry. Both of us. I'm going to order. Throw an inventory. All our number. three. I'm going to save everything again. I think it's quite reasonable. I think the thing that will take me the most time is sorting it out, but I don't think getting everything out will take me an hour anyway, so that will balance everything out, so if you do that. I'm ready to look at some kitchen and pantry

organization

, so let's get started, so I'll tell you right away that this pantry organization took well over three hours, not on this specific day, but in the days after, I worked very hard to find the perfect

containers

. to decant everything in my pantry and I can't wait to show you that later in the video I recently helped my mother-in-law move just a couple of days ago and we already have her pantry well organized if you haven't already.

I have seen that video. I'll be sure to link it. Go see it. It is very inspiring. I think starting somewhere where you have a completely empty pantry and kitchen and you can let your vision come to life. What I want to try to recreate today, even though I already have things in my pantry, I'm going to do my best to take out every single thing and have it completely empty before I start putting things away. I really don't know if my counter space will allow me to use my living room couch and dining room table too, but I'll do my best because I just need to rearrange a few things here and of course inventory, so I wanted to show you my inventory real quick.

I think this will make things go a lot faster for me. This is just a little Google Spreadsheet that you can see at the top. I have grains, vegetables, soups, sauces, sweet and savory snacks. Baking items in others. I think that will cover it. pretty much everything that's in my pantry and I'll be able to write down what's in here type type type and in the little box is the quantity, so if I find a second item I can change it to two, three or four. from having to write it down or write it down in Italian, my next step here I'm going to go ahead and inventory these items because they're all ready and then I'm going to start pulling things out of the pantry and taking inventory as I pull them out.

I hope it works, so let's get to work. I've only inventoried seven items so far and I figured it wouldn't be fun to guess how many items you think are in my pantry, so why don't you do it? are in your head or put it in the comments before watching to the end of the video how many items do you think are in my pantry? I have, let's see, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight categories and a hundred lines for each one. category, do you think I have eight hundred articles or less? We'll see.

I'll add it at the end because I think it'll be almost humiliating in a way of saying hey, do I really need that many items at once? my pantry, so put your guesses in the comments and then let me get back to what I'm doing. I was thirsty. When I first saw you, green rice, Carmy, yeah, it was crazy. It was a Friday night when I kissed you for the first time. I like lightning you broke my chains they released me on the couch in your apartment no I'm not everything after inventorying all the food there was I started taking things out of the pantry one basket at a time this was a really good way to check each type of food one at a time.

I checked the dates and threw out foods that had been open for too long and then took inventory of what was left - another reason why it's really good to go to your pantry, since you can see everything. The things you have that you are not eating. I just went through all of our candy and I know it's not something you should force yourself to eat or anything, but we also love candy and we don't want it to go away. to waste, so I limited things to two baskets. Basically, I have one full of candy and stuff if you need something sweet quick and then a bigger one full of more desserts, so now we know we don't have to like them.

Let's make cookies with desserts for a while, we can eat these things until we go back to a basket, which I think is reasonable. This gummy bear situation is ridiculous guys, I know, but I love gummies and these are like gourmet gummy bears. They are super good so I will start reviewing them like I said. I won't like gorging myself on gummies every night, it's just what I have, like some popcorn or a snack. I'll add, like you know, 10 to 20. gummy bears in there and start eating the ones I don't want, those two little shapes because I really like them later on.

I'll show you a little trick for open snacks and things like how you can help yourself remember to eat them and your family remembers to eat them so hold on to that tip until the end everything in here besides the gummies is closed everything that is open and unpackaged I'm putting it right there because I'm going to do something with it a little bit later, so I'll show you that trick soon, but my one hour timer just went off and at the end of an hour I expected to have a pantry and an empty pantry, like You can see, that's not the case, but instead I'm pulling.

I take it out one category at a time by sorting and inventorying it and then I'll set it aside so that at the end of hour two of three I should have everything out of the pantry and inventoried and I should be able to start putting things away. back, so let's hope it stays that way and yeah, let's get back to it. I get so caught up thinking about the travel spell. I'm losing cycles, I'm falling. I'm so deep, deep down, deep down, I feel like we have a ridiculous amount of some of this stuff, that's just what happens when you know the pantry is full, you can't see what you have, but I have a almost empty thing of cocoa and wine that's not very full, so I'm I'll combine them, but I think I'm going to get

containers

. new containers for all my baking stuff.

This is not a necessity by any means, but I would love to have containers for almost all the things I use regularly, including baking. baking soda powder so they can show off the uniform, that's something I like instead of buying clothes, I like buying containers for my stuff, I don't know, so I think that's something I'll keep an eye out for soon and then I'll be able to get all my beautiful baking stuff in things that match and I'll get labels for them, so I'm hoping I can get it done here quickly enough that I can show them to you, but if not, I'll try to put them up. on Instagram and stuff later, but still combine things if you can, that always helps save some space.

I can't and you can say, okay, I know my second our timer is about to go off and if you remember, I was going to try to have it all. You can see that side of the painter is pretty much out, but let me show you the current situation, so this is what we have. It is not too bad. You can see I have a lot of empty containers which of course things are going to work. Back to the bins, but for now I have them empty so I can decide what I want to do here in the pantry, this whole side is empty, this was the side that had the most loose items, let's go ahead and take care of the storage situation. the corner and then we're going to start putting things away let me feel them again on the side in mine and go around in circles shouting your name, just the two of us and we can stay awake I use other streetlights, shall we? do what we have to do, seal, did you know that there is a lot of science behind where items are placed in the supermarket, not only their location in the aisle, but also their actual location on the shelves, at eye level , which is the most coveted place and brands?

You can even pay a placement fee to place your products there. You can do the same for yourself and everyone else in your family in your pantry by placing items that need to be eaten right at eye level so they are visible and easy to grab. It also helps me use items if they are easier to get, so I like to take as much as I can out of the box to make it easier to consume. Let's finish by knocking on the windows. You have to understand, we have a chance. One chance, yes, I decided to make a packaged snack container.

This isn't something we normally have on hand, but we end up with a lot of them after living with family. My hope was that having this container would make it easier to grab something to eat. when we leave the house and they help us stop less for food and snacks, and wouldn't you know that Kent, my husband, went right to that the other day when we were out for a long walk and grabbed us some granola bars, okay, here's the time, look at Alexa, how much time is left on my stopwatch, okay, five minutes and I'm at a good stopping point, so let me show you what's been done, here's the current situation in the pantry, no it feels very good. quiet right now because I'm definitely not 100 percent done and then here's what's still left in the pan or sorry, in the kitchen, open things.

I'm going to show you what I like to do with that in just a Second, and then these two guys here I'll tell you what the plan is for them, so at least now everything will be off the countertops and we can get the function of our cook and I'll show you how I used all those open-faced snacks that are a little random. How do I make sure they are eaten one way. It helps remind me and my husband to eat random snacks and treats for display. You will usually find a plate of sweets. on our kitchen island and a candy cake display on the counter are not only out and easy to see when you need something sweet quick, but they no longer take up pantry space and are much easier to throw away, too. something once you've looked at it with your eyes open for a week, compared to when it's hidden in the pantry, you can even give it an end date, like everything that doesn't get eaten on Thursday, garbage day, It is discarded as random snacks.

I'd like to make a trail mix to use up all those little leftover bits, okay, so maybe it's been a few days a week and I finally decided on a few containers. I went back and forth for a long time because I really like these auxo pops for how they look and how they work. I wanted lids that came off completely so it would be easier to get sugar and flour out and just get to things, but I listened and read Some reviews say they are not airtight, so let's find out. because I just couldn't find another set that came in enough sizes for what I wanted, so as you can see, I have four different ones.

This is the eighth piece that I will bake worse than when I add everything Iwanted to. how many small, medium and large containers she needed. This was the best way to get them at the cheapest price, but I'll be honest. It wasn't cheap. I think each of these is about 60% at Bed Bath and Beyond, so I went for it. use my 20% off coupon to get them all for 20% off and then I saved some Christmas gift cards which helped make this more affordable and got a few other things today. I'm going to turn the camera around and show you the other things I have today I bought this at Walmart this is the Anchor Hocking brand and I think it's going to be 14 dollars for our rice and it has a rubber gasket to make it airtight and then these are the glass jars of 64 ounces which is I think that's equivalent to half a gallon.

I already have two. This is what I save as oatmeal and this speeds up. These are the best prices I can find at Target. I think I bought them last year for about seven dollars. I swear. but today they were nine dollars and some change a piece, but it was still the best price I compared on Amazon, so it's not like I said something cheap, but it's something that really makes me happy and I think it will show. It's amazing to have everything decanted and organized now. I've already bought tons of organizing stuff for my pantry for a year or two.

I can't be a member of whatever we're moving to, so this has been like a slow investment for me, it's something I saved up. my money because it's worth it to me I don't like spending my money on other things but this is what I like to spend my money on so it might be worth it to you but I'm only giving you what it really cost and I'm excited to get it out everything from the pantry that I want to put in the decanters and place them next to the container. I think they're going in because I want to see if I have everything I need before I start the process of washing them.

I also have stickers from Amazon. I think they were about 16 dollars for a set of a hundred different labels and I went through the description and marked like If you knew all the things I needed, flour, oats and I had almost everything so they'll be coming in a couple of days. I'll wash them and might even put everything in there probably tomorrow because it's getting close to dinner time. today, but I'm very, very excited, oh, and I did all of this in order to pick up Bed Bath & Beyond curbside at the house, so I just stopped to be there, they brought it.

Target just went to the desk and picked it up. Walmart Walmart I walked in, but I knew exactly where my mask was and everything, so I'm ready. I'm excited to see what this tree of sorrow will look like with everything out, it will look so cute and I'll probably have to get a couple more things for the cans, but I hope that's before I unpack everything. I wanted to test the tightness so I filled one of the containers with water and turned it upside down to see if any water would leak out and it did. But the instructions on these auxiliary containers are very specific and say to never lift them by the lids.

I think over time it weakens the seal, so I'm feeling a little overwhelmed right now by the decision making here in the pantry. I'm in a place where I don't want to have so much stuff in the pantry, but I also don't want to waste anything we have and I don't know, it's hard because I don't. I want to have a lot, but I also want to be like a bulk buyer, save money, so I'm confused. What's really taking up so much space here are all these random snacks that we have in large quantities that were given to us.

We like Christmas, Easter, just candy and all kinds of things, so I can't really tell people not to buy us things, but I do want to have a designated space where we have random things like that and a small space designated for them. and a time limit, we have to finish them by a certain time or we won't be able to have them beyond that, our pantry will be full of similar ingredients, that's what I'm going for, let me show you where I am at that, so I know that probably is quite blurry. I don't know why this is, maybe there isn't enough light in here, but I brought my husband and asked him if this is okay or ridiculous and he said so. it looks good, he said it looks like The Container Store, so the plan is that this will be the baking rack, you can see the sugar and stuff behind it, but like flour, sugar, brown sugar and then these will be like little candies , corn flour, things like that and then this. it's going to be our snack rack so it's going to be like open snacks in the front and then you can see there's snacks back here but we have a lot more snacks now and then down here we usually have popcorn on hand I think that's Stay, this has a lot of sweets, but I would like to go through them as quickly as possible so we can have one container that has packaged snacks and another that is open for random things, that's my plan.

I don't know, I'm just feeling a little overwhelmed, so I'm going to take a break and then come back to this with fresh eyes. I learned by mistake that it helps to dry the containers with a cloth so they don't dry out. I have spots so this is what it all looks like and it dried overnight. I get very nervous about storing things with any kind of moisture, so even when I unload the dishwasher I let things hang overnight, turn them over, and then if I have the same wines, just be aware that there is a lot of water trapped in here , so I shook them and then turned them over like this and just tried to get all the moisture out of here.

How do you store things in your pantry? to have things in their original containers or out of them the doorbell just rang I thought it might be Amazon with my stickers but unfortunately it was something else but it's okay I think this is a good time to stop and go to the store to buy . our groceries and also the canned containers that are going to change all that down there make it really good, plus I didn't want to pretend I didn't want to put baking soda and baking powder in the containers before I had the labels because I might forget what are, so I think I'm going to go ahead and make that pickup order and then come back and finish it, but look, it looks so good.

I feel better than yesterday. I was really feeling kind of anxious about it, my husband helped me, he said it looked really good, so look here. I love it anyway, so I'll go get the rest of the stuff, get that errand out of the way, and then I'll be able to. To have the rest of the day to get things nice and organized I wanted to quickly show you the containers that I have four cans in. Of course, I showed them to you in the pantry since it's a little difficult to see them here, but they are from Inter design or I design.

I think it has been renamed to I design, but you can find these products that are primarily acrylic containers at Bed Bath and Beyond and you can also find them at home, this one specifically was at Bed Bath and Beyond and I like that it has a lid to being able to get my hands in here easily because I can take the lid off, but if I want to put more things in the pantry we'll see if it fits on the shelf, I can hide that lid and then I can stack more things on top of it.

I also have one of these in the refrigerator for our refreshments and it's great because it's like a designated space for that specific item that I really love, so I'll put them in the pantry and I think that'll make a big difference, now that I've decanted almost all. I've seen what size containers I really need, so I left one of the sets I ordered unpackaged because I thought there was a chance. I was going to have to return it three sets that I made for you so inside it comes with a size guide and at Bed Bath and Beyond I guess I never went to the actual oXXO or oxo website this is much more useful because sometimes just when you make an online order you just can't see the sizes because they are actually very small they are perfect but I don't want any more that big so what I'm going to end up doing is returning that set for sixty dollars and I'm going to get four more containers that They are between these two sizes and they will be perfect for my brown sugar and some of the other things that, like the entire container, just won't fit.

This one fits in a pound, but I always get more than a pound of stuff, so the containers that I'm going to get are going to be this wide but they're going to be like half the height, so they're going to be bigger than this but smaller than this and then you'll be able to stack them on top of each other, so I'm going to get four of those for my corn flour, my brown sugar, powdered sugar and my chocolate chip, basically in the pop system there are big square tops and then different heights and then some totally square lids and then I think it's mini smaller than this one and then also two different sizes of rectangular lids so just FYI if you order them online to actually look at them even though I was measuring it was still Hard to compare them, so once you have it in person, see it. a little easier to see, but that's why I was hesitant to open my last box because I thought I could swap it out for different sizes.

Well, I have my final order. I just received four of these that were about the same price. like one of those big packs that I returned or exchanged for this one, so I'm going to wash these in the dishwasher, let them dry and I can finally finish this tomorrow, guess what just came in so excited after almost two. weeks of pantry organization, mostly thanks to these damn containers. I can finally finish things with my tags. I bought them on Amazon and will be sure to link them below. They were very easy to apply because they were just clear stickers.

My previous labels were vinyl trans and while they look amazing, they were a pain to put on. I'm totally converted to these stickers, let me feel 'cause I made mine and I went around in circles screaming your name, take me to a different place, just the two of us, no one can stay awake, it's okay, after many days, I finally feel at peace with the place where the pantry is and I didn't forget the inventory. I'll have that number here in just a second, but I definitely must have stopped counting. at some point because there's no way for you to see what's in this pantry, but let's go ahead and get in there, so first let me show you a way back from top to bottom and then we'll zoom in and look at everything.

I'm going to try to make it quick because I know this video is getting really long, but that's because I spent a lot of time organizing it, this pantry, okay, let's start from the top, we have some appliances that, hopefully, We're going to use the blender quite a bit. frequently and we use the iron a lot and then those are all our fun snacks on top. Alright, those are some special snacks that we just want to keep so we don't leave. to put them away with the other snacks so we can tell if we have anyone there, we can say go grab whatever you want and then obviously it's going to be pretty easy to miss, then we just have oils and stuff on the turntables, which which makes it really easy. to arrive and this is kind of a turntable for breakfast.

I love these jars. I'll link them below. We have other things, like things to bake. I can't wait to use this, so this box is not there. I think someone got that for us and that's it, so we'll keep them towards the front because they look really nice. We have our bread box, which I know takes up a lot of space, but it's like, "Hey, this is where." Brad says, don't put anything else in here, cereal we haven't had in a while, but we usually make it in our oatmeal now, if you come down, I love this, I really like how they turn out, so in the back I have other supplies to bake duplicates and then some packaged stuff back there that once we use the packages we probably won't buy anymore.

I would like to cook from scratch and bake from scratch, so you know. All the usual stuff, I haven't used powdered sugar in a while, but when I do, I have a space for it, it's not so cool how the little scoop can fit on the lid, the only thing is it takes up a ton of the space. space like it can't be filled which is kind of silly so you can see in the sugar that the scoop is there which I don't really care guys I usually wash my hands when I'm baking so it's totally fine and behind corn flour, which we use but not that often, this is the last minute change I just made.

I put all of these smaller baking supplies on the turntable, even the salt I decanted. I love it, I love it, we use a lot of chocolate chips. I have a big one and then in the middle again there are duplicates, so we'll probably leave it like that because we're going to need a lot of salt when we cook and then these are my spices, they look kind of crazy because I have a lot of extra in the back, but This is what I did since last time and I feel it's pretty clever. I made a list of everything behind it, so when I run out of something here, I can check HERE. before taking everything out because it's not very easy to see the bottom going down, we have cans of things, I have beans, cream soup and things like that, tomatoes, other greens and vegetables, this is my t1, I need a drink of this tea, so that I don't have all this space T more plastic straws once Ilet's finish, those are our last plastic straws, we are only doing sustainable things, this is our snacking side, lots of different snacks and then other snacks behind probably once we eat them, we won't be left with so many snacks and then more snacks, snack packs, popcorn and just a bunch of random stuff, oh so I wanted to say this.

I love, love, love the labels that came here. I'm going to turn a tray slowly, it's actually a blank label. I didn't know what to write on it, maybe with a marker, but I had an Expo, so I wrote on it with the Expo and I thought, "Oh, then I can change it," so I thought I could. I don't just write directly on these and so I did, so I know this doesn't look very pretty because I did it on its side, but I can write on this an Expo and then I can erase it, which I can easily erase because I just wrote on it, but it will stay longer over time and then I can use a damp cloth to erase. down here pasta peanut butter honey and then sauce, random things, that's why it's down because we're not going to look at it as much and then pasta and rice ramen and onions we always keep a bunch there are our bags.

I didn't even talk about it, we keep our rice cooker and crock pot because we use them so much. Toasters, dog food, he deserves a space in the pantry, sodas and soups and then other things that I didn't feel belonged in the vegetables and then this is our rice. I really like it a lot. It makes it look cute now our giant 20 pound bag, our rice or whatever, it didn't completely fit in there so you can see it's in the back, that's right. makes it so much easier, okay, large total number of items in the pantry according to my inventory, which can't be right because I had one hundred and forty-six items, did you guess correctly or not even close?

He didn't count the spices, but everything else is nice. Somehow I stopped somewhere. I know I had to do it, but 146 articles. I'm going to use that inventory to help me cook up some of the weird stuff that we won't be buying or replacing that will help us get even more space. our pantry and get it to where I really want it to be, which is simply a place where it's easy to have ingredients, cook and bake. I hope you enjoyed this incredibly long pantry organization. I hope it gave you some great

ideas

, remember I'll have everything linked below and don't forget to check out Mikayla's channel who is looking to see her little pantry organization.

I'm excited to see it, thank you all so much and I'll see you again next week, bye.