Make It Yourself: Pantry Organizers

In an effort to tame the chaos that comes with living in a house full of males, I was inspired last week to make some pantry organizers.  I did have a designated kitchen drawer for holding quick snacks for the kids (organic fruit strips, Kashi cereal bars, and so on), but it was in a constant state of disarray.  My spouse also uses a lot of the Simply Organic mixes, and those are forever scattered about in a disheveled heap.

Enter in the miracle of cracker boxes and some cardstock!  I carefully opened the bottom flaps on the boxes so they could be completely flattened (top flaps were already open as these were boxes I had saved for reuse).  I then used a rotary desktop-style cutter to trim them evenly, taped the bottom/top closed again so the box would retain its shape, and spruced them up with a bit of cardstock I had on hand.  I chose to cover the fronts of mine only as the sides and backs are not visible how I have them placed in my pantry.  This also freed up some room for me as these boxes are slightly larger, and therefore hold more, than the original boxes for some of these items (such as the fruit strips and cereal bars) - no need to take up more room than necessary storing a bunch of boxes (because I stock up when they're on sale) when I can condense most of it into these new organizers.