Tackle It Tuesday-Update

If you follow my blog regularly, you know the thing that makes my heart rate increase and my blood pressure rise. If you haven't read and are curious, check it out here. I thought that I would show everyone what the after looks like. My blood pressure has been good and the palpitations are only for my hubby ;).

The top drawer. See the kids' stuff in the back?

The drawer that made me hurt just to look at it.

Stuff I am giving to a thrift store. We have multiples of some things so they are gone. I would have given away more but my hubby insists that not all spatulas are equal so being the submissive wife that I am, I left them there.

Anyway, I feel better and as an added bonus, I was able to clean out the crumbs and dog hair from the drawer so we are also more sanitary!

Tackle It Tuesday

Is there something in your house that just drives you crazy? No, not your husband or kids but some task of chore that you can never seem to get to that makes you want to scream? This is my something!






Every time I open this my blood pressure sky rockets and I just get mental trying to find the pizza cutter or some such nonsense. Here is the top drawer:





As you can see, it isn't near as bad off as the other but this is after my attempt to make it better via the baskets. Here is my solution. I won this from SITS when I entered a contest on how to feed a family on less than $5. Read about it here or should I say I won a gift card and this is part of what I bought with it: