DIY Labels
I actually started working on this a couple weeks ago, but I think it might be helpful for those participating in 52 Weeks to an Organized Home. Now, I’m not saying that in order to organize your kitchen, you have to go out and buy some pretty glass containers. If you want to, great, but look around at what you have first. Do you have some cardboard boxes still laying around after Christmas? If they’re plain, just trim them down to size. If they have writing on them, cover them with scrapbook paper/wrapping paper/whatever you have. Do you have extra canning jars? Or maybe you’re already using plastic storage but need to label.
Here’s a tip if you are planning on buying containers: If you need quite a few and know that a store regularly stocks the item, buy them 1 or a few at a time, whenever you can rather than dump a ton of money on them at once. I did this for my tea jars. I have lots of tea, but didn’t want to buy a cart full of jars when I was also getting groceries, so I’ve been buying them two or three at a time and slowly cleaning out my tea cupboard.
Note: You can also take advantage of the current packaging. In the jar on the left I have the back panel of a box of tea so I can remember what the tea is good for.
Here’s the scoop: I’ve created a simple, but pretty label for you to download and print out. There are three different sizes on one sheet, or you can download a single label and make it whatever size you want. You can find sticky paper to print on, or just use regular paper and glue it on. (I went with a repositionable sticker sheet that I had left over from school because (1) I already had it and (2) I may want to change the contents sometime.) The labels are blank, so you can print them out and hand-write on them, or pull them into an editing program like Gimp (Free), Photoshop, etc. and add your own text. You can also change the black to a color if you want to, using either of those programs.
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Single Label or Label Sheet
