May I make a pantry suggestion?

I was thinking this morning about how surprised I am to discover so many households storing their baking staples in their original packaging. I'm mostly talking about white flour, white sugar, brown sugar, and powdered sugar. Every household has these. Those paper "bags" the white flour and the white sugar are packaged in leave a lot to be desired. Even closing them with a chip clip doesn't quite keep them fresh. And it's easy to make a big mess if you drop them. The majority of households Simply Organized has helped store these items this way.

Here is my suggestion:
Reasons I love this:
1. If you drop it, no mess.
2. You can CLEARLY see when you need more. This eliminates 3 opened bags of brown sugar in your pantry, and makes it super simple to know when to add these items to your grocery list, saving money and space.
3. A bag of flour fills this bottom one up. And a bag of sugar fills the middle one up. I also keep 2 small canisters on my kitchen counter for when I need just a little flour or a little sugar. So any overflow from refilling these containers goes into the counter canisters.
4. When I bake, I just grab the flour container and the top three travel with me.
5. They are easy to label. Every single person who will use my pantry or cook in my kitchen will know where to find what they need which is great during the holidays.
6. These were cheap. I found these at a discount store, as a set, even though I was thinking of organizing these staples differently. These are absolutely perfect and I would not do it any other way now.
7. My ingredients are always fresh and dry.

I also keep baking powder, baking soda, and cocoa powder in a square clear container so I have all three when I just grab one container. I also keep my powdered sugar in a clear, lidded container.

Seriously, it takes me no extra time to empty my bag of flour into this container when I bring home more. And I can't tell you how much something this simple makes me so happy.

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