Where to Store and How to Store

 Now that you have a list of things you want to start storing, where and how do you store these items.
Well....you can store in a closet, under the bed, the top of your closet, an end table, in your pantry, and the list can go on.
 Above I have separated my food storage into 3 months. I have one month in boxes. Another month is on the 2nd shelf and the third month is on the bottom shelf. This is how I have sorted and organized my food storage. This just makes sense to me. I can see what I have for each month and I can see what I need for each month.

 My husband and I were doing brainstorming about our situation. Do we stay if there is an emergency or do we leave? If we leave we will be taking our 72 hour kit, but we don't want to leave all of our food storage. We put good money and time into it. We want to be able to quickly take some of it with us.
 So, we devised a plan on how to do that. We broke up our food storage into weeks. I got my diaper boxes together and put a weeks worth of our food storage in the box. Now as you see below I have a larger box full of items. That is my baking box. If I have time I will be carrying out that heavy sucker to the car. I labeled it. I labeled all of the boxes so that I would know what was in them. I also labeled them according to importance. I have one labeled Week 1 A and Week 1 B. I want the A box if I have to grab anything out quickly. If I happen to have more time, I will come back for box B and so on.
 This method is more money, but I figured it would be worth buying a smaller relish bottle so I can have my tuna with relish, instead of just plain.
 If you decide to do this, make sure you are rotating that food. Putting them in boxes does make it harder to get to so that it is rotated.

  I also have gotten creative on how to store flour, sugar, and many other needed cooking products. My husband goes through a lot of protein. So, I take off the label and write on the container what is in it and the expiration date. Now looking back I should have put it on a label because I will be rotating out the flour.
 In order to keep the bugs out of your food storage you will want to put the flour in the freezer for a little while, I did 24 hours. Then put a bay leaf in the container.
 Another way that I saw, on Pinterest, was putting your food storage in 2 liter bottles. That is another cheap way to put flour into a container. Just make sure you clean out the bottle well and put a bay leaf in the container, one in the bottom and one at the top.
 You can also do the glass mason jars, if you have them. I also have # 10 cans full of food. However, I can't always get to a cannery to do that. I also have air tight containers, like the one below.  So, there isn't just one right way to do it.

I hope this gives you some ideas on how you too can find solutions to your problems.