Storage
Sometimes you may want to keep an article or recipe from a magazine. Great, cut it out, keep in a notebook and toss the magazine. But- sometimes a magazine is so content rich that you’ll want to keep the whole thing. In this case go through it, starting from the front, and tear out all the advertising pages and any that contain irrelevant information. You’ll end up with a much thinner and lighter magazine that can be stored in a magazine file.
When storing magazines you may wish to store them in chronological order. Another way to store several years worth is to store them by season or event. I find it handy to keep all my Thanksgiving through Christmas magazines together so that I can keep them all together to be pulled out in early fall. If your favorite subscription features a gardening or decorating issue every year keep those issues together so that you can find the information you want without pouring through dozens of magazines.
Putting away after-Christmas gift wrap? Keep it neat with a toilet paper roll. Take an empty toilet paper (or papertowel) roll, cut down one side and snap several along the length of your gift wrap. It will stay rolled without the ripping and creases a rubber band will leave.
Kitchen
Square food containers will save more space in your ‘fridge or freezer than round ones. To save even more space in the freezer, fill a zipper style freezer bag with your leftovers then place in an appropriately sized square container. Freeze solid then remove from container and stack!
Can’t find that bag of frozen peas? Know it’s somewhere in the back. Fill a lidless plastic shoe or sweater box with your frozen veggies or meats and place on the freezer shelf. Now you’ve got a “drawer” you can pull out to find those peas.
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