DIY: How to organize your spices and beautifully display them!

For about two years now I have been trying to find a way to organize my 30-40 spices that I have accumulated over the last...while :)

       This is what my spices looked like. Nothing terrible, just frustrating to find things.

I have searched high and low, but whenever I want to buy spice racks of some sort, you have to either purchase them with the spices already in it, or there are not enough containers for what I need! Until now, I have just been putting all my spices in a drawer or a cabinet and even though I try to keep it alphabetized, it is still difficult to find what I am looking for quickly. 

I finally came across this concept of having spice containers that were magnetic on the bottom to put on your refrigerator! I thought that was great but whenever I priced them, they were about $2-4 per container! <--- Not for me. 

I was getting discouraged until last weekend when I finally came across these perfect containers and decided to conquer this project on my own and DIM! (Do It Myself :) 

I came across these bins at Ross and I apologize in advance I do not know what original store they came from, but I do know they were being sold as bead organizers. There were 25 in a pack and it was being sold for $5 per pack! SCORE! I purchased two of them (the only two they had left) and immediately when I went home I went to work.

The only two other things I needed to complete my project were magnetic strips to cut and stick to the bottom and my handy dandy label maker that I use all the time for everything :)

   

I started individually pouring my spices in their containers while labeling them with their correct name.

After that, I cut and placed a magnet on the back. I do have to put a disclaimer: the magnets were not sticking very well probably because there was a little dip in the middle of the containers and it was having a hard time sticking. For mine, I reinforced the magnet to the container with a little superglue. Careful, though when you do that, it makes it permanent! :)

THE FINISHED PROJECT!

I love the uniformity of this and as you can see, I have them alphabetized for easy searching.

HAPPY ORGANIZING!