I’m hitting publish on today’s Five Minute Friday post much later in the day than I had planned, but there have been some exciting things happening here today! I can’t spill the beans just yet, but hopefully I’ll have a big announcement sometime next week! In the meantime, I know you all love organization as much as I do…so let’s talk about that.
If you have kids, then you know exactly what I mean when I say that sippy cups are a pain in the rear end! They take up a lot of space (especially those with the ginat wing handles) and, when empty, they are really tipsy, creating a domino effect each time you reach for one. If I had a deep drawer to put them in, that would probably be a great solution – but I don’t… so I had to find a way to keep them on a shelf without loosing my mind. And as an added bonus, I also managed to make room for all of our water bottles at the same time. Bonus!
Back when I still had a baby in the house {my babies are both toddlers now…tear} I used a basket on our kitchen counter to corral all of the bottles, and over time I added a second basket to hold sippy cups.
But once we became a bottle-free household, I really wanted to clear the sippy cups off the counter as well – so I had to find a new place to store them. That dilema gave the kick in the rear I needed to finally clean off the shelf where I was storing my spices.
By turning all our winged sippy cups at an angle, thy fit in the basket much easier than I expected!
We also have another set of sippy cups that are actually stackable {what a novel concept, right?!}, as well as two different sizes of non-lidded plastic cups that our older is starting to use. For these, I reused one of the lazy susans that previously held spices in this cabinet. The lazy susan makes it quick and easy to rotate and grab what I need without knocking one stack of cups over as I reach for another.
