Mom’s Pantry Organization

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My mom’s pantry has always been less than organized.  It seems that within the last few years it has seen an overload of items.

I offered to help my mom organize it and she was quick to take me up on the offer.  What came as a surprise to her was my emptying of the entire pantry in order to assess just exactly we were dealing with.  She kept commenting that she couldn’t believe I was going to empty the entire pantry, she thought I would take it shelf by shelf and drawer by drawer. Had we done that we would have created at least double the work for ourselves.

By pulling everything out we were able to discover a few things that needed tossed due to being expired.  This is what happens when you have an overload of items put away anywhere.  We were also able to find items that needed to be relocated to another area of the house.

Mom has been ridding her kitchen of plastic containers and replacing them with glass.  Fortunately for this makeover mom had been saving glass containers for this project.  Since there were different kinds of flour and dry goods the label maker got quite a workout that day as well.

Here are some before and after photos:

Full Pantry Before

Full Pantry After

Pantry Drawers Before

Pantry Drawers After

Pantry Drawer After

Pantry Drawer After

Pantry Drawer After

I Heart Logitech

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I’m not one to sing the praises, online anyway, of a product.  Today I’m making an exception.  For the record, the only keyboards and mouses that we’ve used in the last ten years have been from Logitech.  So I was a fan of their products prior to what happened today.

This week our home office got a bit of a face lift in the form of two new desks.  This is something we’ve been wanting to do since we moved in over three years ago and we finally got around to it.  Well, Bill decided to look for new desks.

Anyway, as a result of all the moving around of things one of the ‘feet’ on my keyboard was broken.  After dealing with it being lopsided all week I decided to call Logitech to see if they could send me a new ‘foot’.  For those smarty pants out there, no I didn’t have the foot propped up, that’s not what caused it to be lopsided.  Surprisingly those ‘feet’ don’t  fold flush against the bottom so when one is missing the keyboard is lopsided.

When my call was answered by Ryan he was very polite and handled everything very efficiently.  He did a quick check and it turns out that my keyboard is no longer made so they can’t send me a new foot.  Instead they are going to send me a completely new keyboard.  He took my name and address as well as my email address and I should have a new keyboard a week from now.  Wow!

I have to say that I’m super impressed all around.  When I get the survey to let the company know how my call was handled I will definitely complete it and sing Ryan’s praises as well as the company’s replacement policy.