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4 Dollar Store Hacks to Upgrade Small Rooms in a Day

May 31, 2023 ยท 7 min read
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Save space in a small office

Office supplies that you can find at the Dollar Store can quickly become a lifesaver and help you organize your office space and keep your documents in order, even if you do not have the space for a file cabinet.

These cabinets, while handy and useful, are also bulky and take up too much space, so you need to be creative in order to have somewhere to store your items and not clutter your desk. This is where you should look for plain file holders or even wire holders for papers at the dollar store.

You can easily attach those to the wall by mounting them there or hanging them from a few little screws or even pins if your wall allows it.

Then you can label each file holder so you know what you have in each of them, and you’ve got two birds with one stone. Not only have you decluttered your desk and found a storage solution for all your papers, but you have also found a way to decorate your walls in a practical and pleasing-to-the-eye way despite the small space.

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11 responses to “4 Dollar Store Hacks to Upgrade Small Rooms in a Day”

  1. DAWN PALUMBO says:
    April 16, 2024 at 11:38 am

    LOVE THE ONE FOR THE FREEZER

    Reply
  2. Maria De La Cruz says:
    June 27, 2024 at 12:01 pm

    I love your store and use Craft for my family child care

    Reply
  3. Letha Harris says:
    June 27, 2024 at 5:02 pm

    This sounds good but tempi post keeps popping up not Dollar Store.??

    Reply
  4. linda welling says:
    July 29, 2024 at 9:47 am

    Absolutely love these great hacks for home office as well.and home too.at still great price.but wish the $1.00 items would come back or change name of store..isn’t that false advertising.as stuff is not a buck any longer!!

    Reply
    • Shirley says:
      September 25, 2024 at 9:21 am

      Move on!!

      Reply
    • Harriet Jones says:
      December 26, 2024 at 8:14 pm

      Then don’t shop there.

      Reply
  5. Cheryl D Albright says:
    September 12, 2024 at 4:28 pm

    These are some nice ideas. I love the mail organizer and plan to try it in my study room

    Reply
  6. Janine Gennett says:
    October 27, 2024 at 9:49 pm

    Love the wall file. I had one at work , but never thought to use one at home. I already have a good system for bills, but need something to hold instructions on purchases and warranties and I think one of these would certainly work better than using up one of my kitchen drawers. Thank you ๐Ÿ˜Š

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  7. CalGirl says:
    January 16, 2025 at 6:25 am

    I am an art teacher & use Dollar Tree bins (dishpans?) in my room all over the place—as turn-in boxes for finished work, my “grade boxes,” to “file” class sets of reference packets I’ve copied & to use for certain lessons….to label & use for substitute teacher’s materials for a lesson per period/per day…..to assemble lesson materials for special projects, to gather up used materials so I can file them later in my permanent files, to use as a dishpan to clean materials…to deposit all the crayons in so I can offer them on my rolling cart of materials to use…..any other media, too, like markers, colored pencils….the uses are almost endless in my position :). I also use them in my home as organizing bins to pull out from upper & lower cabinets. Do NOT ever have to “dig” to find something…just pull the bin out and find it right away. Done. Put the bin back in the cabinet ๐Ÿ™‚

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  8. B Mills says:
    April 5, 2025 at 12:32 pm

    Love the idea for storage to organize freezer. Will make things much easier for my husband to find when I ask him to take something out of the freezer for me.

    Reply
  9. Lori says:
    June 1, 2026 at 5:36 pm

    Has anyone come up with handicap accessible storage bins in the freezer. Iโ€™m in a wheelchair so I thought great idea for freezer but I need handles on the bottom of bins.

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