You May Not Have Thought Of…Silver Sharpie Labeling
Labeling is a fun project and process for me. When I hear the word “label”, I think of ORGANIZED.
There are many different ways to label – with tabs, stickers, folder, markers, chalkboard paint these days, you name it. It seems there are a bazillion different ways to label something.
One thing I have always struggled to label and organize are my spices. I currently have them in a drawer and that is working out fine, except the stickers that I used to label them, are now coming off. There goes that plan! Not that I can’t lift the bottle out to figure out what it is, but I suppose I am lazy and want to see from the top, what the spice is.
Then I had this idea that if I could WRITE on the spice, what it is, that would make my day. I wouldn’t then have to worry about losing the sticker and digging them out every time I bought a new spice.
That’s when the silver sharpie idea came along. I wrote on one bottle and thought “huh, why haven’t I done this before”? So, now all of my spices are labeled with a silver sharpie, I can see from first glance what it is, AND they are all in alphabetical order.
Now THAT is what I have been looking for in organizing my spices!
How do you organize your spices?
That is awesome that you even labeled a chair – well, now you know where it is and no one can discreetly steal it! Love it and thanks for sharing!
This is genius. Thanks for the great tip! I took the advice and just silver sharpied my spices. Woot! Oh my goodness, this will save time and make it easy for everyone to see what they want. Great tip!!
Thank you! I am glad that you have been able to put this to use – it has made a HUGE difference in our home and it sounds like yours too 🙂
I really want to share how I do my spices, but it's sort of hard to explain. I'll give it a shot, and if you like the idea, I'll forward pix.
We took some trim 1/2"x2" and cut it to just under the width of a cabinet door. My sweetheart mounted them on the door with 1/2"x1/2" brackets. About an inch above the ends of each mounted piece of trim, he put a 2" metal bracket. Then we strung strong wire through the holes on the brackets, making a line between the two brackets just under an inch from the top of each piece of wood. That made a little retainer to hold the little plastic containers of spices–in alphabetical order. Make sense? I keep any extra amounts of each spice in the back of a bottom drawer, where nothing else ever goes. Works for us!
Hi Mary :). I would LOVE to see pictures of this! Even detailed pics of the basics to the finished product? I see a guest post coming soon ;)???? This sounds like a GREAT idea and a DIY project, which makes this even better! Let me know your thoughts 🙂
My Awesome Wonderful and I are traveling, and I'm just catching up with my posts. When we get back home, I'll do this very thing. Many who have seen this project have replicated it. So, yes, I'd love to help your other friends.
Awesome! Thank you Mary 🙂