FINDING a good deal at the grocery store is thrilling until you bring your treasures home and need to find a place to store them. One organizing expert’s genius hack keeps canned food neatly put away and makes it so much easier to access, too. The kitchen pantry is a primary area of focus for […]
FINDING a good deal at the grocery store is thrilling until you bring your treasures home and need to find a place to store them.
One organizing expert’s genius hack keeps canned food neatly put away and makes it so much easier to access, too.
The kitchen pantry is a primary area of focus for Alaska Granny, a YouTuber who lives in a remote area of Alaska and has 137k subscribers online.
Because she stockpiles food for emergencies, Alaska Granny keeps lots of canned staples on hand, and she uses a brilliant hack to keep them tidy.
You don’t even need to be a crafting expert to use this method, which repurposes a different product’s packaging you probably have piled next to your recycling.
“Do you buy lots of 12-packs of soda?” the YouTuber said in her video demonstration. “We do, way too many.”
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Luckily, Alaska Granny said, her family holds on to the cardboard boxes that soda cans come in, and that’s the basis for her organizers.
All the woman uses to convert the boxes into “upcycled” organizers is scissors and tape.
First, she widens the opening at the front of the box to make it a better fit for canned foods.
“Where there’s a little part here on the front that’s corrugated, I cut that out perfectly,” she explained.
You can even cut another hole, of the same size, at the back of the box, which makes it easier to refill and restock them.
The YouTube star showed the secondary opening she’d cut on another box.
“I cut a slot in the back so I could just drop them in, so the fresh ones would be in the front,” she explained.
And to make the organizers easier to use, Alaska Granny used tape to affix labels.
“I put a label on the front of what I want to be inside each one,” she said, showing the camera pictures of tomatoes and beans that indicated what belongs in each box.
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She even reused labels she’d peeled off of cans, which made the contents immediately clear and didn’t require extra crafting.
If your family buys lots of canned food – and goes through canned soda on a regular basis, too – this strategy is a savvy way to keep your pantry organized without spending a dime.
