Favourite Organising Tools #9 – Baskets (1)

Baskets make really good organising tools for containing items. When you’re organising, you always want to keep like items together and this is a great way to do just that.

It’s much easier to pull a basket off a shelf, remove something and then put it back instead of feeling your way on the shelf, messing up everything. When the basket has a handle, it’s also very easy to carry from room to room (like in the case of cleaning supplies).

They’re cheap and you can easily re-purpose if you outgrow the basket or it no longer suits the original purpose.

Here’s how I use baskets in my kitchen.

1. to hold my cell phone charger and rechargeable batteries for my camera (this is on top of my extractor fan)

2. to hold our vitamins (the front one has the daily stuff and the back one has all the
extra supplies)

4. to store cleaning things under the kitchen sink (notice how I write the date
on the dishwashing liquid? I’m weird like that – I like to keep track to make sure we
don’t waste money)

How do you use baskets in your kitchen?

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