Category archive: Quick & Simple Organizing Tips

You can use this storage system for anything around the house. They can be used for craft projects or office supplies but they will work great for toys too (especially Legos)!! Besides the fact that they are stylish, cheap and easy to make, here comes the best part…they easily roll under the bed or out…

Ribbon Organizer: Cost about $4.00 We are always inspired by projects like this ribbon organizer fromSpunky Junky or  the one below from re-nest. These could be no cost to you because you may already have these items in your home! You may want to dress up the tea box with some wrapping paper too. Here at M2O we…

  This past month we piled, donated, stacked, grouped and restocked all the items in our kitchen with one goal in mind: having an organized kitchen!   If you followed all the tips and used some of them as they applied to your kitchen organizing challenges, by now your kitchen should be organized. You have…

There is nothing greener than growing live plants. For some of us who have experienced the aroma of fresh herbs and the sweet scent that it leaves on our skin when we cut them right from the stem, having herbs all year around is a dream come true. You can use herbs in cooking. Some…

As this month has gone on, we have talked about most every kitchen organizing project. We tackled cookware, bakeware, food supply, the refrigerator, utensils, glassware, fabric and the list goes on. What we haven’t talked about yet are all of those small to medium sized appliances that are sitting on your counter or high up…

  An often forgotten space in the kitchen is the freezer.  So out of sight out of mind that we almost forgot to talk about it!   The promise of “soon I will get to organizing the freezer” is a common promise we all make to ourselves. We say it out loud or in our…

  Pets make our house feel like a home as they walk in to our lives and take over our heart. For those of us that have the pleasure of opening our hearts to our amazing pets, we know we have to make room for them in our house as well.   It’s best to assign…

  Having people in our life that love us and that we love is the biggest blessing in this universe. Those  that walk with us in the journey of life are our strength. Parties allow us to share this love and joy as we get together and celebrate the moments of life. Maybe it’s a…

  At Mission 2 Organize we always are jonesing for organizing. We love the satisfaction that comes from the challenges that we face. By no means do we have one solution to all organizing challenges, as they all are unique, but no matter how stubborn these challenges are, we love to push back and think…

  Don’t we all wish we had a robot that would wash our dishes, dry them and put them back where they belong? When 60’s fiction was filled with futuristic robots that did our chores, there was a sense that very soon all of us would live in a smart house that cooks and cleans…

  We might have lost touch with nature and magic. Maybe our stories are not filled with flying witches on their brooms anymore, but for sure we still have brooms lying around in our kitchen. And we still need them to be easy to grab, use and store.   To organize the broom, best steam…

  Some of the most used supplies in the kitchen are zippered plastic baggies, aluminum foil, cling wrap, and wax paper. We use them to cover, line, and store variety of things we use in our kitchens.   There are many ways to store these items based on your kitchen’s set up. Think about how…

  You spill coffee on your brand new rug. In a panic you run into the kitchen to grab some carpet cleaner. You know you have a cleaner that will remove the spot, but the challenge is not removing the spot on your carpet anymore, but finding the carpet cleaner among all the cleaning supplies….

  We call it by many names, (“the forgotten”, “the gather-it-all”, “the multi-tasking drawer”), but really when it comes down to it, it’s really a junk drawer. Junk drawers came into existence in our kitchens for two main reasons: to store items we rarely use or to store the items we really don’t know where…

Whether you have a stand-alone liquor cabinet, bar area, or a cabinet where you store your liquor in your kitchen, you want to keep them stocked and organized. Who knows when your friend will come over for a glass of wine and chat! Having a well-stocked liquor cabinet is a simple step that you can…

  The alarm is beeping; food in the oven is coming close to being overdone. You rush in to rescue it, but can’t find any oven mitts, so you grab the first towel handy and jump in. Next thing you know you dropped the hot dish or burnt yourself. We’ve all done it.   One…

  We all love the aroma of a fresh-baked cookies. It warms up our soul and makes the kitchen truly the heart of the home. Many of us dread baking just because of fear. The fear of opening our bakeware cabinet door and facing the challenge of digging in it to find the dish we…

  Since it is so important and storing Tupperware can be one of the biggest challenges in most kitchens, we are excited to dedicate this post to keeping it all organized. Tupperware is an incredibly popular use of Thermoplastics and most families have a number of tupperware containers which they struggle to find room for….

  What is the best way to organize pots and pans in the kitchen? This is one of the most frequent questions we get from our clients in regard to kitchen organizing!   If pots and pans are not put away in an organized fashion, the chaos gets out of hand quickly. You can save…