Another solution I love

I have been seeking a solution for our laundry room which serves as a walkway in from the garage to the house.  It is more of a narrow hallway than a room.  It is hard enough to get everyone through without pushing and shoving and tracking mud and snow all along the way, much less have a place for coats, backpacks boots and shoes.  My husband spotted these lockers on craigslist (is there such thing as a craigslist giftcard? that would be awesome!)

We paid $ 60 for all of them and took a trip to home depot to allow each family member to pick out their own color.  There is one extra and I chose the color for that one as well as my own.  Can you guess who chose which color?  I am offering a prize of 5 handmade cards to anyone who gets all colors guessed correctly!

Now before each child goes to bed they have their backpack in their locker (with homework in it!) , ready to grab on their way into the van.  Also they can each keep their snowboots, gloves and hat as well as coat or extra shoes in there.  I hang my purse up in mine.  We are all happy with how our own color turned out and it is a great solution to an overcrowded laundry room and coat closet!  On the top of each locker rests our 72 hour kits, packed and ready for each family member should we need them.  I painted metal stackable bins in corresponding colors that now sit inside the shelf in the kitchen with each child's reading logs (we have suffered greatly in the past from losing these a few days before the end of the month and they are part of the reading grade!) and ongoing work, coloring books for the little ones.

Now if only I could get the rest of my life this organized!

sailing on to find an entire night's rest and clear sinuses!
E