Behold Its Beauty

This is my glorious pantry…organized, neat, unblemished by dirty fingers and laziness. 

I know it won’t last, the newness of just having unpacked will fade.  I just wanted to capture it, this fleeting beauty, before it all goes to Hell.

59 Responses to Behold Its Beauty
  1. Annie
    March 5, 2008 | 4:06 pm

    Awww! And look – Ovaltine has pride of place, too ;)

  2. Someone Being Me
    March 5, 2008 | 4:09 pm

    I can hear the tiny choir of angels all the way here in Texas. I love having an organized pantry. There is something so cool about seeing all the tiny little jars and boxes all lined up in their rows sorted by cereal, veggies, meat, etc.

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  3. mrs. chicken
    March 5, 2008 | 4:22 pm

    How purty!

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  4. Maggie
    March 5, 2008 | 4:23 pm

    Oh pretty! Organized things (and organizing) give me a sick amount of joy. I seriously need help. But I do love that pantry! And, like Annie, I did notice that Ovaltine was front and center!

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  5. emily
    March 5, 2008 | 4:24 pm

    my tiny little jars do not look that nice. I don’t think you would want to be my friend if you saw my pantry…

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  6. Toni
    March 5, 2008 | 4:37 pm

    My pantry looked like that once. About 3 years ago for a day when my mother organized it. It is not a pretty picture now.

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  7. Sandy
    March 5, 2008 | 4:50 pm

    Wow. Wish mine looked like that. ;-)

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  8. Jean
    March 5, 2008 | 5:24 pm

    I love the newness of unpacking, it’s like starting all over again with a clean organized slate. Of course it all goes to hell in a week but what can you say?

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  9. Dawn
    March 5, 2008 | 5:34 pm

    I just cleaned ours out today so it looks nice too. The deep shelves drive me batty – like I can see back there!

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  10. Sister Honey Bunch
    March 5, 2008 | 5:41 pm

    Do I spy some Meijer corn?

    This pantry would make my husband cry like a baby.

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  11. jess
    March 5, 2008 | 6:01 pm

    excuse me..i have to go vomit now.

    :)

  12. amy
    March 5, 2008 | 6:02 pm

    I cleaned mine out at Christmas time. It already looks like I haven’t organized it in a year! Ugh.

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  13. Kara
    March 5, 2008 | 6:13 pm

    I’m jealous mine will never again look like that now that two little boys live with me and know where the pantry is.

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  14. Mama DB
    March 5, 2008 | 6:16 pm

    I noticed you don’t have any salad cream or spotted dick. Time to stock up that pantry!

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  15. amanda
    March 5, 2008 | 7:14 pm

    I love the smell of fresh organization.

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  16. Carrie
    March 5, 2008 | 7:15 pm

    That is just beautiful…brings tears to my eyes. :) You should look into pull out shelves. Our pantry is like yours and I have 3 pull out shelves (don’t ask me why I didn’t do the 4th…brain must have been gone that day!) and they are wonderful! You can see all the way to the back. If your husband is handy he might be able to do it himself. Mine says he can put the last one it but I have yet to see him do it.

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  17. Stephanie
    March 5, 2008 | 8:30 pm

    That is WONDERFUL and BEAUTIFUL!!! I love an organized pantry!

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  18. Cathy
    March 5, 2008 | 8:32 pm

    That is so beautiful.
    Really. Just beautiful.

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  19. tommie
    March 5, 2008 | 8:37 pm

    Oh…lovely lovely lovely! I see the Ovaltine (which always reminds me “A Christmas Story”.)

    I see a stainless oven peeking there too….Target makes some wonderful stainless wipes that I swear by!

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  20. Mary
    March 5, 2008 | 8:52 pm

    We’ll be house hunting soon ourselves and I can not wait to move just to be able to weed out the old and get ORGANIZED!
    Organized cabinets are pure beauty :)

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  21. Jen
    March 5, 2008 | 9:18 pm

    Ovaltine – YUM!

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  22. Jamie
    March 5, 2008 | 9:23 pm

    Whoa……

    And drool….

    ;)

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  23. heather
    March 5, 2008 | 9:25 pm

    Mmm…I do that to my fridge every so often because the pantry is a lost cause.

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  24. Marye~
    March 5, 2008 | 9:27 pm

    Put that one in your scrapbook! I don’t think mine ever looked that good.

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  25. Jerseygirl89
    March 5, 2008 | 9:51 pm

    That pantry is so beautiful it makes me want to reorganize all of my cabinets.

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  26. Erin
    March 5, 2008 | 10:10 pm

    That is truly gorgeous.

    Congratulations again on the new house!

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  27. MamaGeek
    March 5, 2008 | 10:29 pm

    THAT is a thing of BEAUTY! Off I go to clean my craptacular cabinets…

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  28. pgoodness
    March 5, 2008 | 10:37 pm

    Oh, it’s so purdy!!

    I’ll put all my stuff in boxes if you’ll come unpack and make it look like that! :-)

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  29. Alison
    March 5, 2008 | 10:49 pm

    Holy Baby Food, Batman!!
    More ovaltine please!

    That looks so pretty…..I want one too!

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  30. Christy
    March 5, 2008 | 11:16 pm

    Can you come do mine? It looks horrible!

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  31. janet
    March 5, 2008 | 11:36 pm

    very very VERY impressive.

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  32. Stimey
    March 6, 2008 | 12:21 am

    Oh, it’s gorgeous! I LOVE unpacking in a new house for just that reason: everything is clean and organized for one glorious moment. Before it all goes to hell.

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  33. Penelope Anne
    March 6, 2008 | 9:23 am

    So neat, so orderly…wouldn’t last a second in my house.
    To dream of neatness, of order…maybe when the kids leave home? Nope, hubby will still be here ;)

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  34. Mandy
    March 6, 2008 | 9:25 am

    Oh, what a feeling!
    It’s lovely, just lovely.
    I absolutely can’t wait for that when we move too. It is one of the simplest pleasures one can imagine. Starting anew…

    Keep your fingers crossed! We may have a buyer!!!

    Mandy

  35. Devan
    March 6, 2008 | 9:27 am

    oooh, looks great! Enjoy it while it lasts. Also, Ovaltine! YUM!

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  36. andi
    March 6, 2008 | 10:12 am

    Nothing excites me like an organized pantry. Sadly, I’m not being sarcastic.

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  37. Phoenix
    March 6, 2008 | 10:47 am

    Feeling a bit OCD? :)

    Hey you ever feel like organizing anything else, come over to my place. I’ve got Beer.

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  38. Clink
    March 6, 2008 | 1:00 pm

    Thats like ‘Sleeping with the Enemy’ organized…but it a good way :)

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  39. Penny
    March 6, 2008 | 1:01 pm

    What’s that in the front? Ova .. what? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of that stuff. lol

  40. Mrs. Mustard
    March 6, 2008 | 1:06 pm

    I just shed a single tear.

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  41. Queen of Shake Shake
    March 6, 2008 | 1:31 pm

    Suddenly I find myself reminded of that Julie Roberts movie when she opens her cabinet to find freakishly organized canned goods.

    Now I think I may need therapy for coveting such organized canned goods.

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  42. sam
    March 6, 2008 | 1:52 pm

    Dude, that’s like Sleeping with the Enemy neat. Freaks me out a little.

    Make it dirty! Make it dirty!

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  43. sam
    March 6, 2008 | 1:53 pm

    Hahahaha, just saw Clink’s comment – great minds think a like.

    Still freaked out though.

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  44. Natalie
    March 6, 2008 | 2:09 pm

    Great! Now do you want to come do mine?

  45. In the Trenches of Mommyhood
    March 6, 2008 | 2:09 pm

    Only because I love you Jennifer am I saying with kindness to remove the apostrophe from “it’s” in your title.
    You know how I am. I’m twitching!

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  46. Megan
    March 6, 2008 | 2:13 pm

    It’s so pretty! Kind of brings a tear to my eye!

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  47. Carrie
    March 6, 2008 | 2:24 pm

    That is sooo not fair.

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  48. MizFit
    March 6, 2008 | 2:42 pm

    ok
    there seriously are no words.

    my pantry didnt look like that the day we moved into this domicile.

    Im in awe.
    no matter how long it lasts.

    (and now am feeling oddly driven to run, look at mine and snap a cameraphone photo)

    M.

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  49. Burgh Baby's Mom
    March 6, 2008 | 3:35 pm

    Be still my heart, that is bee-u-tiful.

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  50. Momo Fali
    March 6, 2008 | 6:36 pm

    I am so turned on right now.

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