Day 1: Jars {31 Cheap & Easy DIY Organizers}

Think you have to spend a lot of money on costly organizing tools to get your house in order?  Nope!  Getting organized doesn't have to be expensive!

Throughout this series I'm sharing ideas to help you organize your home by either

• making simple organizers with things that don't cost very much OR
• using items you already have in a different way.

If cost has been holding you back from getting organized, now you've got no more excuses!

{If you missed the introduction to the series, you can read it here.}

To kick things off today, I'm going to talk about one of my favourite organizers... JARS!


I use jars all over my house!  Here they are in my kitchen holding baking ingredients...

 

In my basement storing leftover paint....

We even make gifts in a jar for Christmas gifts or end of the year teacher gifts...

I got most of my jars on Freecycle, except for the jars for gifts (we usually buy a case of mason jars every few years for those). 

You can use empty food jars too instead of recycling them.  Just wash out your spaghetti sauce jars, pickle jars, jam jars, etc. and give them a whole new life helping you organize your home!

Here are some other ways you can use jars to get cheaply and easily organized.

• Keep your hardware organized in jars

Mission to Save

•  Decorate a variety of jars and then use them to organize small craft supplies

Vintage, Paint and More

•  You can keep your kitchen counters clutter free by using a jar to hold dirty silverware while your dishwasher is running {or full of clean dishes waiting to be emptied - not that I'd know anything about that LOL!}

This Simple Home

• Here's a tutorial to make mason jar wall sconces, also showing how you can use jars for art supplies

Grinning Like an Idiot

• Here's a tutorial to make toothbrush holders with a bit of chicken wire and a mason jar
• And if you've got some old candles in jars, here's a tutorial on how to get wax out of jars so you can re-use the jar for something else instead of throwing it out

 

Well, I got a little carried away in today's post, but don't these ideas make you want to grab a bunch of jars out of your recycling bin and use them to organize?  They are the greatest cheap and easy DIY organizer I know!

For more cheap and easy DIY Organizer ideas with jars, here are a few other posts I've written.

Christmas Gifts in a Jar
DIY Laundry Soap (a simple DIY gift in a jar!)
Organizing Markers and Pens in Desk Drawers

You can find lots of other cheap and easy DIY organizers on my DIY Organizers board on Pinterest.  Make sure you're following me on Pinterest so you don't miss any DIY organizer ideas!

Do you use jars to organize?  What is your favourite use for jars?  What is your favourite cheap and easy DIY organizer?


Happy {Cheap & Easy DIY} organizing!



Here are all the posts in the series.







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