Apartment Food Storage Space

It has been a couple of weeks since my last post. My idea today is to start thinking outside the box for storage area ideas. I live in a small apartment. Having space available for food storage has always been a problem, especially when we had a kid still living with us. Now this has not always been the case. When we owned our own homes and had basements available, we made our pantries in the basements.

Here in our apartment we have to utilize space better. We also decided to give up the idea that our home will never be a model or on the cover of better homes and garden. We have had 2 liter containers of water stored behind chairs in our living room. Now we only have a few 5 gallon Jerry cans of water behind these same chairs. The upper shelves in our closets are for storage of larger #10 cans. One deep broom closet has 6 gallon buckets of wheat and rice stacked floor to ceiling along the back wall. Another closet has light weight metal shelves installed that are used to stack boxes of dry goods. The spare bedroom that used to be my sons room is now my wife’s “sewing room/food storage room.” I was lucky to be able to get for free some very heavy duty metal shelving and installed four of them in this room. They are used for canned goods and a few items we use a lot of.

In the master bedroom we have rubber maid style totes along another wall stacked two and three high. Some of these contain first aid gear. Some items I hope we will never use but we were able to procure during better times. One of these totes contains cold and flu medications. Others contain pasta’s and macaronis.

We have 72 hour kits in back packs stored on the floor of a closet easily retrieved. That reminds me its time again to start switching out some of the winter items in these packs for spring and summer gear. Under our bed has items stored. We have a couple extra dressers or bureau’s that are dedicated to storing candles, wicks, emergency radios, lights, first aid items.

Most stuff is out of the way of the casual observer unless we are careless and keep doors open. Operational security is important. I don’t want it known far and wide we have items that may be of value under less than favorable climates or a SHTF scenario. Our little place is crowded and its time to de-junk and make better use of what space is still available.

Those are my thoughts for today. In a small apartment it is still possible to find some space to store food. Our Prophets have been asking us to do this for over 60 years now.