Organize Your Refrigerator?!?!

With summer here it time to eat healthier and save money, so let’s get your refrigerator in order. Just like your closet, if you don’t know what you have you tend to go out and buy more of the same thing without finishing or using what you already have at home.

All of the grocery stores make sure the newest dates are towards the front and place the older dates behind. That is why they rotate stock constantly to keep things fresh. You should be doing the same thing at your home. Place salad dressing behind the current one, place new milk behind your old milk and so on. Be careful of “sell by” dates or the “use by or freeze” dates. Certain items in your house scream “throw me away” when their date has passed. The funky smell of the milk or the cheese that has mold growing on it others you have to rely on the date stamp.

If you keep all of your meats and cheeses together in a drawer, fruits and vegetables in a drawer, yogurts on a shelf and salad dressings on the inside of door this will allow you be able to see what you have so you can make a shopping list without over buying. If you know what you have at home, you won’t tend to spend more at the grocery store and if you keep it organized you will know when your dates are about to expire.

Author Michelle Lehman of Organizing Solutions “Clear the Clutter” Michelle is a Professional Organizer in the Tulsa area. Her articles have been featured in the Tulsa World, The Oklahoman, Chicago Sun-Times and The Chicago Post-Tribune. Michelle appears on TheNewsOn 6 KOTV and Fox23 News This Morning giving organizing tips and recommendations.