10 Simple Dollar Tree Solutions For A Perfectly Organized Freezer

Your freezer can easily become a place where your food sits before it's eventually thrown out altogether because you forget that it's there. While you may have good intentions when setting up your freezer initially, it's easy for items get buried or forgotten and go bad as you add more food and shove old things back. The major culprit here is a failed attempt at organizing the freezer. 

Freezers come in various sizes, whether it's a side-by-side, a pull-out drawer, or a separate deep freezer (perhaps in the garage). If your frozen items are not stored with structure and organization, you'll likely forget what's way in the back or on the bottom, leading to wasted money. However, some simple finds at your local Dollar Tree provide perfect and easy solutions for this problem, including deep bins, clear storage holders, and attachable book bins, to keep your freezer organized and tidy. Plus, an organized freezer can run more efficiently and saves you on energy, so you can cut down on your utility bill.

Besides these organizer hacks, you can take other steps when organizing your freezer. Consider labeling your bags, holders, or bins, and take some time to educate yourself on what foods are actually freezer-friendly to keep your freezer in better shape. Before doing all of that though, here are the 10 Dollar Tree solutions that can help provide you with a perfectly organized freezer.

If you have a smaller freezer, it can be help to store things vertically so that they can be seen easily. It's easy to miss things when you've stacked them on top of each other, especially when there are bags and items at the bottom. Dollar Tree has the Essentials White Wire Drying Rack, which makes a perfect hack for keeping frozen vegetables and bags organized in your freezer. You simply set it where you want it, and you can put the individual bags in the slots so that they are easy to see and grab as needed.

These Essential Woven-Look Plastic Baskets have handles, are shallow, and can work to organize a smaller freezer or tighter space, like the top drawer of your pull out freezer, where there is less room. These bins are great because they can save the bottom of your freezer from spills. Consider putting anything that might leak out in these bins like popsicles or frozen fruit bags. They also clean easily since they are plastic, so you can quickly use them again.

The Teaching Tree Assorted Book Bins from Dollar Tree are an excellent way to quickly organize your freezer. The best part is that these bins attach to each other, so you can put two or three together. Then, you can set them snugly into your freezer to hold an array foods and meals. They are great for holding gallon-sized bags upright and make it easy for you to see what you have in the freezer, so nothing gets lost!

There can be lots of half-used items, bags, or smaller products in your freezer. That's where this awesome Essentials Wire Cabinet Shelf comes in handy. You can raise up anything that might be harder to locate or see or tubs of foods that are small in the freezer. And you can still store plenty of things underneath it, which makes better use of your storage space without having to pile items directly on top of one another.

Bags for storing ... bags? Yes! Maybe you're more environmentally conscious and don't want a bunch of extra plastic in your freezer. Believe it or not, Dollar Tree's Small Kraft Paper Gift Bags are an excellent hack for your freezer when storing various items. You can label things easily to keep track of what is where. You can also color-code them by getting varying colors of bags when storing by category in your freezer.

Another way you can organize by color is with these Large Rectangular Slotted Plastic Storage Baskets. Using them in a deep freezer is helpful for keeping track of all your different meats and storing them by beef, poultry, and so on. You don't have to categorize by color — you can just get all clear baskets if you want a simple storage solution for the freezer. But the deeper, larger capacity of these baskets is what makes them perfect for a bigger freezer space to organize.

The Essentials Translucent Colored Storage Box with Lids are another option when you want to stack your foods in the freezer. Stacking is essential when you have limited space, and with lids on the bins, you have a way to prevent freezer burn. You can label, see things easier, and sort by color. Having the ability to stack because there are lids on each container makes it easy to store and organize. 

If you have a smaller freezer and need to see better around all of your items, than these Rectangular Slotted Baskets with Handles are just the ticket. With limited space, your freezer can easily become packed full, making it difficult to know what you have stored in the freezer. These baskets have big handles right in the front for easy maneuvering around in the freezer — pull them out to find what you need quickly. They also are deep for storing multiple items that help you to keep your freezer organized. 

It can be a pain to try and tie or utilize the plastic pieces for keeping your frozen bags sealed and preventing freezer burn. These cheap Jot Binder Clips you can get from Dollar Tree work well for keeping all your freezer bags closed securely. You can even clip them to the wire racks in the freezer to hang your bags, keeping them stored in place and easy to find. 

Lastly, you can store things in a deep freezer where you can easily see by stacking with the Essentials Wire Rectangular Basket. When everything is piled on top of each other, you'll spend more time (and cooling energy from the freezer) digging around for what you want. These wire baskets make it easy to stack and store items, and they can stack on top of each other. Finding what you need in your deep freezer is a breeze!