On Saturday, we stopped by IKEA, because, for my birthday, I wanted to do nothing else but spend time with friends, and pick up some much needed things for the house from my favorite Swedish discount store (my sweet friends happy obliged). Oh IKEA how I love thee.
At the top of my list were these recycling bins. However, I had different plans for them than using them to store our used paper and plastic.
See, we have this issue with Harley and Baxter's food. This is how we have it (or really don't have it stored in our laundry room).
Please excuse the tornado that went through our laundry and utility room, it's awfully messy and on the list of things to be organized. Anyways, Harley's dog food conveniently comes in a re-sealable bag, however, Baxter's doesn't, so we have it in an old sheetrock bucket.
Clearly, this isn't working for us. The bucket lid gets stuck all the time and they are both in the way of our deep freezer that we access daily.
So, with the addition of two bins from IKEA, the dog and cat food now live tucked away next to our washer and dryer. Please note the half white and half beige trim. I will finish painting one day.
It's the perfect solution to our storage issue.
The lids flip up allowing for the perfect amount of space to scoop out food for each furball.
More importantly, an entire bag of food fits in the bins perfectly.
Slowly but surely things will get organized and into place around here. Usually that process is aided by a trip to IKEA. If only it weren't 3 1/2 hours away.
Thank you for helping us get organized IKEA.
