House Chores

Chores and me are not meant to be. I am not that good in an arranging things and keeping them at that so this is really something that I always struggle with. I can deal with people better than things. Truth of matter is my life is full of things. Well, back track on that. It's just hard to let go of things.

One thing hit me today is as I've been brainstorming how to de-clutter and arrange and keep at it, albeit slowly, because it has the problem-solving appeal.

My main task now is the freezer. I really love freezing but hate my freezer. It only has 2 shelves and I've tried to arrange my ziploc bags and whatnot time and again but maintaining it is never easy.  It's really frustrating when I want to buy a few more blocks of cheese and packs of ice cream but I can't coz I'm not sure if I have enough space. hahaha! I cannot plug into making my frozen burritos because of that.

Last week, I managed to experiment making space in the refrigerator area and it has helped a bit. It did cost a bit of extras to buy a few organizing containers but I think that is easier for me than buying a new fridge itself with all those nice drawers and shelves. (Yea, I'm preparing my case now if my husband starts to notice how much I'll be spending in Daiso.)

So onto my next task.

How do I arrange that freezer? Googled and found some hack of using magazine holders but I can't picture out how that will wok unless I use flat freezer containers which is not quite appealing to me. I'm all for flexibility of ziploc bags since they can folded when the contents had decreased or such.

L. First point:
A. What's typically in my freezer?
frozen fruits: tomatoes, strawberries, bananas, chokeberries, and maybe some blueberries?, persimmon juice

1. frozen vegetables: pre-sliced bell peppers, garlic, cucumbers, etc. , mashed sweet potatoes, leftover vegies fo vegie stock come colder days, 
2. meat/mock meat stuff: frozen mushrooms (pre-sliced, and stalks for stock) 
3. dairy: butter, mozzarella block, shredded,
4. frozen bread of all shapes and sizes
5. ice cream and ice cubes since it's summer now

B. How are they stored right now?

Most of these are stored in ziplocs, some in small containers.

The zipbags are again in transparent boxes that opens on top. There's some sort of category going like a box has the frozen fruits, etc.

II. What's the problem now?

• It's hard to get and put stuff back. 
• It's not easy to take out the boxes to open and get some stuff. 
• Not consistent labels. 

III. Possible solutions:

• system/organizer that makes it easy to sort and access each bag
• mini drawers, labels, 
• new set of zipbags to fit the drawers

IV. My course of action:

1. measure my whole freezer space, top and bottom
2. find those mini-drawers that takes up less space -- something that may be flat or tall enough to keep the bags vertical once frozen
3. label each bag on what is it, how much, and when.
4. find a pull out box that can hold irregular sized stuff like bread, etc.

There you are! I've got my plan of action out.
Oops! Before I forget, I must set a budget on how much it should cost me to get this plan in motion. Roughly 20k at Daiso or online soon!