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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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DIY Boot Tray

You may already have a shoe rack or even a shoe tray lying around in your hallways. Yet, whenever it rains or snows, you are bound to track inside all the water, which will end up dirtying your tray or shoe rack.

What’s more, the tray may hold all the water contained, but it will also not allow your shoes to fully dry, and the shoe rack, if it’s made out of wood, will end up swelling from the moisture, and if it’s made of metal, it can drip the water on the floor, and you can get into other issues with all that moisture.

You also should not have to add too much furniture, as most hallways are quite small.

Next time you are at the dollar store, make sure to pick up a bag of decorative stones or glass pebbles. They are inexpensive and pleasing to the eye, and you can add them to your shoe tray. That way, when you place your shoes to dry, the water can go all the way to the bottom and help your shoes dry faster.

If you do not have a shoe tray already, do not worry! You do not need to invest in one if you do not want to: you may be lucky enough to find one at your local dollar store, but if not, you can get a serving platter from there; it can also be plastic, and it will match your hallway’s color scheme, and just like that, you have DIYed all the parts!

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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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