January 28, 2022 marked my one year anniversary of paying off my student loans . Reflecting back on choosing to pay off my student loans leaves me with several take a ways that I want to share with you! In September 2020 I decided to become debt free by utilizing the debt snowball method to pay off all my debt. Before this I had struggled to save and really understand basic financial principles. As a first-generation college student, I received a scholarship to attend undergrad for free, but the scholarship did not cover summers. During the summers I took out student loans to cover costs without paying interest rates or how much I was taking out. By the end of undergrad I had amassed a little under $17K. Fast forward to graduate school I received another scholarship that covered my education. At the time I was a teacher in a new very expensive city and I had missed the cutoff to have my paycheck last me throughout the summer. So, I decided to take out a loan for two summers to keep
So the area under my kitchen sink had become overrun by
grocery bags. I mean they were everywhere so much so that I dreaded opening the
cabinets because they would fall out all over the place and I could never find
anything down there. As you know, Saturdays are my cleaning day so I decided to
tackle this project after putting it off for so long. To prepare I actually got
on Amazon and purchased a three pack of grocery dispense bags so that I could
better organize these things.
Figure
1: This is a thumbnail of my YouTube video Adult Daily Living Skills:
Organizing under Your Kitchen Sink that has a picture of my very unorganized
kitchen sink area.
I started with clearing everything out and wiping down
the insides of the cabinets. After this, I organized my cleaning products neatly
in a bucket that I keep under my sink. I also made sure to throw away any old
products and other trash that I found. Lastly, I began to tackle the mountain
of grocery bags. I did this by placing them together in a pile and folding them
hotdog style so that I could place them in the bag dispenser. After I couldn’t
bunch another set of bags together I decided to throw away all of the excess
ones that I didn’t need anyway.
Figure
2: This is a photo of my two grocery bag dispense holders hanging in my pantry.
One is blue and the other is gray and orange.
Once the bags were organized I placed them in each
dispense holder and hung them on a command strip in my pantry. You would not believe
how cute and organized they looked! I guess grocery bags aren’t so bad after
all... well when they’re organized at least! What is your under kitchen sink
area looking like these days? Do you have some work to do? Drop down in the
comments and let me know!
Figure 3: This is a photo of my now organized kitchen sink area.
SUBSCRIBE: Adult Daily Living Skills:
Organizing Under Your Kitchen Sink
PURCHASE MY EBOOK HERE: Link for eBook
Coupon Code: Ms. Duggan
Comments
Post a Comment