Jar Organization: A Easier Way to Manage Clutter

About once a week we have spaghetti for dinner resulting in empty spaghetti sauce jars piling up in a box that I have been saving. I feel guilty throwing them away so I started saving them for craft projects or other forms of art. I tried to come up with ideas to use them as center pieces or snow globes but the more they piled up the more I wanted to use them for something useful. 

I looked around at all of the organized boxes of clutter and started focusing on anything that could fit into the jars. At this point I had spaghetti jars, pickle jars, and all sorts of other sized jars in between that I didn’t want to throw away.

We spend so much money on stuff and then spend even more money on stuff to store that stuff. Most of the time small items end up dumped together into boxes which then creates organized clutter. From the outside everything looks neat and clean but as soon as you open a box, everything is a mess again.

That’s how it was with my boxes labeled office and craft supplies. Pens, pencils, paper clips, and whatever else would eventually end up dumped together in the box making it harder to see and find what I needed. That is until I decided to separate everything into jars.

All of the small items were separated into their own space where I could see everything without digging through a dark box. The clutter looked neat and gave the space an organized appearance. I took it one step further and bought a can of 7$ gold spray paint to paint all the lids to match.

Now I can see everything, it’s stylish, and it only costs a can of spray paint. What would have been trash in a landfill just changed the way my office and craft storage function. I love the way it looks now and I look forward to finding more uses for recycled jars in the near future.