Prioritize Organizing-Freezer
Prioritize Organizing-Freezer
You can achieve a more organized life in 5-minute increments.
Keeping a small space organized is doable in only a short amount of time. Let’s look at your freezer. Do you have items sorted into zones? All your veggies together, bread in a bunch, casseroles corralled. This is your first step. Next, grab a roll of tape and a marker. Label everything so you know what it is and when you put it in the freezer. Don’t want to backtrack, just start now and label the stuff you freeze in the future. Leave the tape and marker by the freezer, so it’s ready for you. If the tape doesn’t do it for you try these freezer labels from Amazon. If you want to really get organized you can hang an inventory board on the outside of your freezer.
Do you buy in bulk? Take the time to wrap items in single or family-sized portions. That way you’ll only have to thaw the amount you need.
When you organize your freezer each time you do your grocery shopping it should take only minutes and will save you time all week. Try it – Prioritize Organizing-Freezer in 5 minutes.
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Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
I like your emphasis on the ease of organizing a small space like the freezer. We have things grouped into categories. But honestly, our freezer isn’t that full, so it makes it simple to keep things organized.
It could become too much if we buy and add it on top of everything. Not full is good, it’s great to keep it fresh and simple.
I don’t buy in bulk any more but absolutely did when my children were living at home. I love your idea of keeping the tape and a marker near the freezer. That removes the excuse for not labeling the items put in the freezer.
Thanks Diane. It’s an easy task to keep a tape and a marker and we tend to forget how simple that it.
Those freezer labels are kind of fun. I do keep a sharpie nearby my freezer. I find having multiple users makes the whole “zone” thing more challenging. Some people are on board, and others are not.
On my list for today is to break down a giant package of stew meat from Costco into smaller containers. I also trim the pieces a bit smaller while doing this to make them easier to use when I need them.
Having an organized freezer really does make you feel like a superhero – an easy and rewarding little project!
I agree with you. And if you have time to separate the giant package from Costco when you buy, it will make it easier to store and you don’t have to defrost the whole thing. I tend to buy those big packages before an off day so I can take care of separating. An organized freezer IS a “rewarding project” for sure.
I stopped using an extra freezer a long time ago. With meal planning, I can keep my costs under control without buying so I need a freezer. I would also add that an inventory list is important if more than one person is taking things out of the freezer. It is also important to keep moving the older items to the front or top of the freezer so they get used first.
Great suggestion on moving the older items to the front, as things could be lost especially if you have a lower drawer freezer. If you can manage with one freezer that is wonderful.
There’s only one of me, I hate leftovers (and, to be honest, hate cooking), so this isn’t an issue in my freezer, but it’s definitely a problem facing many of my clients, especially for those families with lots of disparate tastes among family members. People eat part of something and then just stick it in the freezer, unlabeled and mysterious. So, I love those freezer labels. I’m curious, do they stick well on aluminum foil? The inventory list is also a great idea, though so many of my clients are more worried about the decorative looks of their kitchens rather than the functionality of their freezer interiors! (Well, until they think they’re defrosting meat and it turns out to be cake!)
My mother has a cute, metal mesh, flat-bottom basket, similar in size to what you’d use to hold envelopes on your desk, but the back is magnetic so it sticks to the side or front of the fridge. That would be the ideal place to hold pens and those freezer labels; you’ve given me an idea for recommending to my clients!
Those labels are wonderful, and they stick really well especially if you put them on before your items are frozen already.
The side basket on the fridge is a wonderful idea, I have the same one where I also keep my markers and labels.