GIVEAWAY: Rubbermaid Modular Canisters

Get your pantry organized with reasonably priced, Rubbermaid Modular Canisters! I did and it was fairly painless… except for the 20 bucks I spent because I needed more canisters than Rubbermaid sent me to review. Yeah, you know they are good when you use a review item and immediately order more of them!

Pantry Organization Steps:

1. Set aside about an hour of time and clear off some counter space.  You are going to need it! Note: it only took me about 15 minutes.
2. Start pulling out food items and place them in one of four piles. Note: I didn’t pull out canned foods, just the types of things that would go into the Rubbermaid Modular Canisters.
   • Pile One: Expired items… throw these away!
   • Pile Two: Donate Items… you know your family is never going to eat that cranberry sauce before it expires.  Give it to someone who needs a good meal.
   • Pile Three: Baking goods or other dry goods you want to put into your Rubbermaid Modular Canisters.
   • Pile Four: Other keep items.
3. With pile three and four, decide what will go in the Modular Canisters and set aside.  With the remaining items, sort into like categories.  For example: soup together, snacks together, crackers, etc,
4. Put things back into the pantry.  *Think about how you use this space.  Are your kids always wanting snacks?  Maybe they need to go lower so the kids can reach them.  In my case, they need to go higher so the kids CAN’T reach them.
5. Now, put items into the Modular Canisters. Don’t forget to label so you don’t mix up the sugar and flour!

For me, I was amazed at how much each item held!

21 Cup Container: great for cereal, flour, and dried pasta – I was able to put empty two full Ritz boxes (8 packs of crackers) into it.  Freed up space, plus when the crackers are open I don’t have to worry about any bugs!

16 Cup Container: Great for sugar and cookies – I put 4 boxes of Stove Top Stuffing into it!  Isn’t it amazing?  That one small container held FOUR boxes (well, the packages from the boxes) of stuffing!

10 Cup Container: Great for rice, fried fruit, and granola – I have a pack of cookies dumped into it in the photo, but it will also hold a box of Nature Made Granola Bars and a box of Peanut Butter Granola Bars with a bit of room left over.  They will stand right up in it.

5 Cup Container: Great for baking soda, baking powder, coffee, and crackers – I actually put candy bars into it and this is what cost me money.   I purchased 3 more from Amazon so that I could stack them on top of each other.  One currently holds my Hershey kisses that I use for baking,  one has misc snacks in it (gum, candy bars, etc), and the last one is holding mismatched silverware.

For more info be sure to check out the blog post on Rubbermaid’s Adventures in Organizing: Modular Canisters Make Me Happy! (yeah, me too! LOL)

One lucky reader will win their own 8 piece Rubbermaid Modular Canisters set!

REQUIRED: Visit Rubbermaid, look around, then come back and tell me something you want from there.

BONUS (equals 3 entries!) Write a blog post or facebook post WITH PICTURES of your pantry telling why you need to win these canisters. Be sure to link to me the giveaway hostess as well as to Rubbermaid for supplying the products for the giveaway. Oh, I hope tons of people take advantage of this bonus! I want to see other peoples messy pantries so I can feel better about myself.  LOL!

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CONTEST ENDS:  July 28th at midnight CST

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