How to avoid losing items? Holding pens
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How to avoid losing items? Holding pens
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#2I think that's a clever idea.
I've also really found it helpful to put things in plain sight.
The best example of this is shallow toolchest drawers where you can for example open one and see all your screwdrivers.
The worst is the back of the refrigerator, where things go to turn into science experiments. I can kind of see why those super-expensive 48" wide (but shallow) subzero fridges sell for so much.
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#3Best cleaning / organizational tip I’ve learned : everything out of place goes into a tote. Every day shuttle the tote around the house to deposit the items in their rightful place. This reduces reorganizing to linear time
Re: How to avoid losing items? Holding pens
#4I think that's a clever idea. I've also really found it helpful to put things in plain sight. The best example of this is shallow toolchest drawers where you can for example open one and see all your screwdrivers. The worst is the back of the refrigerator, where things go to turn into science experiments. I can kind of see why those super-expensive 48" wide (but shallow) subzero fridges sell for so much.
I think the freezer on the bottom setup makes sense too. I spend more time looking in the fridge, move it to eye level.
I still don’t think my wife understands the struggle that the top shelf is completely invisible when I open the fridge door unless I get way down.
Re: How to avoid losing items? Holding pens
#5I think that's a clever idea. I've also really found it helpful to put things in plain sight. The best example of this is shallow toolchest drawers where you can for example open one and see all your screwdrivers. The worst is the back of the refrigerator, where things go to turn into science experiments. I can kind of see why those super-expensive 48" wide (but shallow) subzero fridges sell for so much.
Counter-depth fridges are the way to go. All we lost when we switched was the space where stuff was slowly going bad.
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#6Best cleaning / organizational tip I’ve learned : everything out of place goes into a tote. Every day shuttle the tote around the house to deposit the items in their rightful place. This reduces reorganizing to linear time
What kind/size of tote do you use? I just finished cleaning and realized how much easier it’d be if I did something like this - ‘sorted go-backs’
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#7Ah yes, that fifth step is the trick…
Re: How to avoid losing items? Holding pens
#8I think that's a clever idea. I've also really found it helpful to put things in plain sight. The best example of this is shallow toolchest drawers where you can for example open one and see all your screwdrivers. The worst is the back of the refrigerator, where things go to turn into science experiments. I can kind of see why those super-expensive 48" wide (but shallow) subzero fridges sell for so much.
I think the freezer on the bottom setup makes sense too. I spend more time looking in the fridge, move it to eye level. I still don’t think my wife understands the struggle that the top shelf is completely invisible when I open the fridge door unless I get way down.
Just went from a side-by-side to a French Door. (I admittedly have an upright freezer in my basement.) This seems so much better than what I had. The freezer drawers are shallow and much easier to see stuff I might want in the near-term than with the side by side.
It is fairly deep and that takes some discipline for the refrigerator but I've been good with that so far. Not that many locations where things can disappear. We'll see how long the discipline lasts. It "feels" like a bigger fridge/freezer even though I think the volumes are about the same.
Re: How to avoid losing items? Holding pens
#9Best cleaning / organizational tip I’ve learned : everything out of place goes into a tote. Every day shuttle the tote around the house to deposit the items in their rightful place. This reduces reorganizing to linear time
What kind/size of tote do you use? I just finished cleaning and realized how much easier it’d be if I did something like this - ‘sorted go-backs’
I like Akro bins, or some "system" that I can always expand easily in the future like Sterilite stackers (I've gotten 1 or 2 every year for about a decade).
https://www.sterilite.com/product-page.html?product=14723V06...
Re: How to avoid losing items? Holding pens
#10I think that's a clever idea. I've also really found it helpful to put things in plain sight. The best example of this is shallow toolchest drawers where you can for example open one and see all your screwdrivers. The worst is the back of the refrigerator, where things go to turn into science experiments. I can kind of see why those super-expensive 48" wide (but shallow) subzero fridges sell for so much.
Counter-depth fridges are the way to go. All we lost when we switched was the space where stuff was slowly going bad.
I went back and forth. I do have a lot of condiments for ethnic cooking and so forth that have pretty good refrigerator lives for a home kitchen. I think the real trick is to keep leftovers and genuinely perishable stuff towards the front.