Pantry Re-org

I love a good organizational project any time of year, but especially at the beginning of the year.  At the start of every year I have plans to go through every single room/cabinet/closet/drawer in the entire house (not all in one day, obviously), but rarely actually do.  Just a little here and there but only ever a small percentage of the whole house. I wasn't planning on doing the pantry yesterday, but just kind of decided to on a whim.  I had finally broke down and ordered a tiered canned good shelf that arrived yesterday so it seemed liked a great time to get started.  Here is what it looked like before:

That's the door going out to the garage, so this room also acts as a mud room.  Under the shelves on the floor are plastic bins that we put our shoes (and sometimes hats and gloves) in, one for each family member plus an extra.  Then there is the garbage/recycling and a container of cat food

On this side, I have a step stool, dog food, cat litter and a large cutting board that I mostly just use for turkey at Christmas (I rarely host Thanksgiving).

Hmmm...doesn't really look that bad from this angle, but still pretty cluttered

The first thing I did was remove all the shoes and other things on the floor and sweep and mop.  Then I removed most of the rest and purged, consolidated and reorganized.

You can't really tell in this photo, but just to the right of the vertical white bar is a clear plastic lazy susan, which is holding bottles of sauces/condiments. I already had that, but it had some canned goods and the rest of the canned goods were just on a shelf but now are all neatly contained on the new tiered shelf

These pictures don't really do it justice, but it really is much better.  Now if only it will last beyond next weekend!  We'll see...