Saving and Organizing, and it feels so good!

I come to you with very good news tonight!! So if you remember one of my new years resolutions was to pay off my student loans. Well with the help of my amazing husband we have paid off one of my Student Loans which means we only have one more loan to pay off. We had been paying half of our mortgage towards this loan every month so now we can put that money into savings.

It's such an amazing feeling.  

Anyway on to real life.. i started organizing my closet tonight, this might sound like a simple task, but once you see the pictures below you'll understand why it may take a while to get the  after pics.

I am ready to get rid of stuff i just don't know what to get rid of and what to keep.

If you have any tips please share :)

Recycled soap dispenser

So i have been seeing these cute soap dispensers made out of jars everywhere. And wanted to make some of my own. 

I was planning on making them out of the jars below.

But when i realized that the jar below (that was sitting on my window sill, pictured above) and the whatchamacallit on the right (i bought months ago at the thrift store to make a soap dispenser) FIT TOGETHER PERFECTLY!

So crazy... and perfect. i just poured the soap i already had into the jar and popped the whatchamacallit on top. It was just tight enough to not fall off when tipped upside down and not too tight that i couldn't get it off.

Then my husband drilled a hole in the top of one of my extra mason jars and i put the white watchamacallit (that came in the green disposable soap above) on the top of the mason jar. 

and WA LA! My dish soap and hand soap beautifully displayed in cute jars for free! 

I'm thinking about putting a black chalk board paint label on them but we'll see how it goes. 

Remember when it was cool to have a million cds...

As i was working on this project i realized this is my first organizing post on the blog! Crazy. Anyway i have wanted to get our cd's/dvd's organized. I thought about a three ring binder, or one of those HUGE cd cases that holds like 200 of these babies, but both options were too bulky. 

So i picked up these guys at Walmart for $12. The cd holder on the left was $7 and the 100 pack of paper cd sleeves were $5. 

Then, while i chilled out and watched tv tonight i put the little booklet in the front of the case and the cd in one sleeve. 

I did that about 100 times and got this...

So neat and tidy

and it fits perfect next to our cd player

see it up there on the top right shelf?

The hubs loves how organized it is :)

One more time.

Before/After

I have so much more space now and for only $12 bucks!