Organizing Small Objects

Business cards for the various services we use tend to get scattered all over the house. Why not make them easy to find by corralling them in one place? Staple each business card to an index card and file them alphabetically in one of these sturdy wooden ‘treasure chests.’ These boxes were found at Dollarama and make elegant alternatives to the traditional plastic index boxes.

A lot of small boxes can take up more than their fair share of real estate in your bathroom cabinet. These glass and metal canisters have screw-on lids, which are perfect for keeping the dust off of things like band-aids and cotton swabs.

The shorter, wider container is 4 ¾” tall and almost 4″ round, making it the perfect size to hold various sizes of adhesive bandages. This eliminates the need for a couple of different size boxes on bathroom shelves.

The second canister is 6″ tall and 3 ½” round.

The Dollar Tree has several lidded glass containers that would suit this need admirably. See-through containers make it easy to see when you’re running out of something, too.

Kitchen drawers are always in danger of becoming so jumbled up that it takes you ten minutes just to find a pair of scissors. The unfinished wooden trays in the craft section at the dollar store make nifty organizers for shallow drawers.

The largest of these trays is less than 12″ long and 8″ wide and there are a couple of smaller sizes too, so, depending on the size of drawer you’re dealing with, you could use a combination of sizes to organize a drawer. You can paint these trays but I think they look great simply left plain.

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