O My Organization an auspicious beginning

O boy do I have a story for you.First of all, welcome to O My Organization Week here on O My Family, a week in which I hope to at least do a little something (or maybe a few little somethings) to keep my life in check and then at the end I invite you to join me. Sound good? M’kay good.This, friends (even those I haven’t met yet), is one of my cupboards. The cereal/boxed mixes/nuts/soy sauce/raisin/crouton cupboard, to be exact.(This picture has a little surprise in it. Can you find it?)Y’all have one of these, too, right? TELL ME YOU HAVE ONE TOO.That cupboard, you know the one, that spills over every time you open it? The one with all of the uncategorized foods shoved in? The one with the unruly cereal bags wreaking havoc on your sanity?!?Yes, that one. I decided to kick off O My Organization Week by giving said cupboard a nice swift kick in the cluttered pants. You ready? First item of business: them cereal bags.I have been talking for a long time about getting storage containers for our cereal because, well see above for exhibit A, and also we buy our cereal in bulk so (16 year old me would never have thought I would have an occasion to say this:) I need a good way to keep my bulk grains organized.Well if that last statement doesn’t betray me as a Costco shopper, I don’t know what does (Ok, maybe the absurd number of dinner rolls on my counter). Costco, always good for 36 eggs or 5lbs of gummy bears, was also the location of my most recent organizational find: a set of 3 cereal snapware containers!How perfect is that?! We usually have about 2 types of cold cereal at a given time (Cheerios and other) and OBaby and I eat oatmeal together every morning, so 3 would be the ideal number of containers for us. I was thrilled to find them (and for only $10 with instant rebate!).So thrilled in fact, that I got home and began purging my cupboard to make a blank slate for my pretty new cereal containers.This is where O My Organization Week and I had a little falling out. A falling otherwise known as Allison Forgot to Measure the Height of Her Cupboard Before Purchasing the Cereal Containers.O the shame.This organized gig? Apparently it’s hard. Or so I’m learning. Mostly out of determination to have a good post for you guys but partially out of pride at not wanting to be outsmarted by BPA-free plastic, I brainstormed alternatives. The best one I could come up with was to move the drawer/shelf down one notch so that the containers would fit, except the shelf under this one has too many tall items for that to be possible, so I decided to flop top shelves with an other cabinet and lower that one because it is above canned goods and although some of them are stacked and therefore too tall, there’s enough space out in the pantry for those stacked cans which would make it possible to lower that drawer.(Aren’t you just so glad it’s organization week?!?! Forget baby knee chub, let’s talk bulk grains! and canned goods! and shelf settings!)I’m sorry. That was my sarcastic/negative side sneaking out. I really didn’t mean that. This week is going to be great.Really.Anyway, so the cereal/boxed mixes/nuts/soy sauce/raisin/crouton shelf was now to switch with the pasta/quinoa/bread crumbs/unopened Parmesan cheese (?!) shelf and we were going to have ourselves a tidy little contained cereal situation.(Those pesky stacked cans were soonly taken care of.)This is me so! proud! that I am going to such great lengths for organization that I am even willing to move shelves. Yay me! Yay O My Organization Week! Yay bulk grains!And this is me after realizing that this shelf is actually skinnier than the other one by several inches and therefore will not fit the 3 cereal containers side-by-side.I think this is what they call organizational planning failure.After hitting my head a few more times against that drawer, I  mumbled a couple of unsavory words, got up, and left the kitchen in absolute disarray (one might even say, unorganized?) and fled to my room for a good pillow screaming.O yes, friends. This week is going to be great.PS: DanO, seeing my distress, put everything back on the shelves as it was before to be tackled another day.Until next time, BPA-free plastic and bulk grains. Until next time.Organization Tip: Measure first. O for Pete’s sake, measure first.