Lucky Day!

It has been less than a year since you got to take a peek into my pantry and view it at its worst (click here in case you forgot what hoarders we were on our way to becoming)!  While it was no where near as messy this time around, with family coming over this year for the holidays, I felt like I needed to get in there and spruce it back to life!

We are very fortunate that our pantry is so big.  Here is a look inside!  I didn't change too much from last time {kept the kids station over on the left and middle, so that the things they eat could be easily reached}, kept the cleaning supplies over on the top right!  A few new things that I did was hang the lunch bags on the inside of the pantry door using command strips and put all of the canned goods into the basket over on the left.  I moved the cookbooks just a smidge and put all of the prescriptions/basic medicines in a little green plastic tray.  I keep a box for each kid that holds all of their school paper work/artwork for the year.  I put it inside the pantry now that there is room instead of on the counter!

Ok, so I know you are thinking, the title of this post is lucky day...how does that even make sense?!

Well, that braided basket that now holds all of the canned foods used to be a place where I kept piles of "stuff"!  While cleaning it out today, and realizing that I needed about 3 of the 25 things that were in it, I discovered these two gift cards!  My husband always wins gift cards at work, worth $25 each and he usually sets them aside or spends them.  Well, two of them must have got mixed into the basket shuffle {sometime last year?!}, so when I pulled them out, I was so excited to have $50 to spend!  EXCEPT, one of the cards wasn't the usual $25 gift card, it was worth a whopping $200! Holla!  I definitely looked at more than once to make sure!  It came just in time for Thanksgiving dinner shopping!  I am so thankful that I took on the cleaning of the pantry before I went to the store today!  I was able to buy everything we needed with the lucky cards!

I feel so much better when my life is cleaner!  And it sure was nice to not have to spend a single penny at the grocery store today too!  I need to get crackin' on the rest of the house, who knows what I'll find!