Shop With Me At Dollar General!

                 

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Hi Friends! Let's go shop at Dollar General! I wanted to take you with me and see what good deals I could find at my local Dollar General store. 

Dollar General had a great selection of cleaning/household and home decor. I was pleasantly surprised with all the items I found.  I loved this section of organization and laundry. 

Dollar General also had a great selection of hair care products. At a lot of store, it's hard to find hair lines for relaxed and kinky hair. DG had a good selection of hair care lines and the prices are great!

Check out the full video to see all the cute items I found and what the inside of my store looks like. I worked really hard on the editing of this video, so I hope you like it and didn't get bored with a bunch of product shots. 

Apartment Sized Fridge Organization For Under $15 | Dollar Tree Storage Bin

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Hi Friends! If you haven't watched the video that shows you a detailed look inside of my fridge, go watch it! Theb come back for some more pictures and
chit chat!

we live in a small 2 bedroom apartment! Even though we rent I stillaking your space work for you! For myself that means, decorating and organizing my rental to make it feel a home! I was able to completely makeover our fridge and put in place an efficient organizational sytem for under $15. Not only does it look clean and crisp, but everything is contained, labeled, as has it's place or "home". If your unorganized like me, then giving things a home or a certain spot makes it easy to know where things belong! I'm now more likely to put things back where I got them because nothing else is out if place. Also by prepping the fruits and veggies and putting them in plastic baggies rather then what they come in, it gives your everything in your fridge a uniformed look. I love our snack bin! It makes life easier, rather than using bowls when you want a snack, everything is already washed and ready. Bobby is able to go into the fridge himself see what we have and pick a snack and juice box! The baggies are also from the dollar store and I highly buying them to store your fruits and veggies! I love the look of the clear acrylic fridge organizers, but the price was no beauno! I just so happened to find some at our local Aldi's for under $5! So I picked up egg holder and was off to the Dollar Tree to find the rest! Dollar Tree is a dollar store that sells everything for $1.00. They sell some pretty awesome storage items that I use in the entire house, as well as much much more! The key is going often because they restock things frequentl,y next you really need to look in ever isle and finally if you see something you like or kind of like BUY IT, because good chance it won't be there when you come back!

I'm so proud of how this project turned out! Have you organized your fridge, if so let me know what you use to  organize. Be sure to follow my blog as well as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter . All of those links are at the top of this page! If you like watching videos please go and subscribe to my Youtube Channel channel, because it really would make my day!

So here are some pictures of my completed fridge organization.

How I Meal Plan

Ever since I discovered the world of mommy blogs, I've found so many helpful tips and tricks. I'm sure so many of you already do this but if you don't, I highly recommend meal planning! Before I started meal planning, I never brought complete meals. I would always need to run to the store and buy an item, or put a meal together quickly. Meal planning saves me time and pressure. I keep all of our meal planning stuff in our home binder (I plan on going through mine in a different post). My binder helps me keep all my paper together and in one place.

There are a couple different sections in out home binder, and meal planning is one of them. In this section I keep blank calenders, coupons, meal ideas for Baby B, my dinner list, and anything else I might need.

 I'm not the best cook and I'm a very picky eater, so I have a number of dinner items I rotate. I have them written down, as well as saved on my computer. This way I can scan the list and decide what to cook on each day. I know I need to get some more recipes (please don't be afraid to leave some ideas!)

I always meal plan for 2 weeks, since that's when we food shop. I find this to be most important because if I only meal plan week to week, then I'll have to food shop every week.

I always plan for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. This way I have everything we could need and don't buy a ton of junk food. This was another issue I'd have, we would buy a ton of cookies, ice cream, chips and things like that. When I meal plan I try to make 1 snack a fruit and the other can be something more tasty.

I also plan for Baby B's meals, he tend to not like a ton of things, so if we're having something I know he doesn't like then I'll already have something else prepared. The current week get hung on the fridge so I can take out whatever I need before work.

Food shopping easier, as well as making our shopping list. I can see exactly how many pieces of chicken we'll need, how many pounds of ground beef, or how much oatmeal we'll eat. I do keep our grocery list saved on the computer so I can just makes the changed needed. It's kinda like our "master" list. I do want to say that I buy things that Bobby likes, like ice cream such. Also if we don't follow the plan exactly that OK, it's just a guide that I like to use in order to food shop efficiently.

The template I use to meal plan is available here if you'd like it.

Thanks for for reading friends! If you have any tip or tricks, please share them with me. I love hearing from you!