As of now I've gotten the pantry shelves done. After test fitting the pallet boards for the individual shelves I tacked them down with the brad nail gun fast and easy. Afterwards I got the motivation to start transferring shit from the old pantry shelf over to the new pantry shelf.
I started first with the #10 cans of foods. These were put in the back of a couple of shelves as we don't really have a large stock of these yet. After moving the #10 cans I then moved the can racks I had already set up on the shelves. With those set up I still had room on one side of each of the three racks I staged on three of the shelves. It was here that I stored some of the canned goods based on type. One shelf had cans of the good soup we started getting. Another shelf had several cans of tomato paste, sauce and whole tomatoes. These were cans we normally use for homemade chili. The other shelf, including the space behind the can rack, was used for some home canned hot peppers I also had on the old pantry shelf. These jars were stacked two high from the back of the can rack around the side a little. In front of that were a couple of large cans of pumpkin puree. One one of the above shelves I stacked all of the canned fruit, which included fruit cocktail, peaches, cranberry sauce and apple sauce. Next to the fruit I put some bags of powdered milk and some cartons of sealed milk. Behind all that several cans of salmon and tuna were stacked. These were used as cat and dog food on occasion. On the opposite side of the shelf all the pasta went. On the bottom level (the floor) went all of the cans of condensed soup and veggies. A lot of this stuff is old and while its still edible, it will more than likely be used for chicken food and dog food. Any cans that are still relatively "new" (a couple years old or so) may still get used in some stew or something that incorporates several items in the dish so any possible off taste will be masked. More than likely all the expired shit will become animal food and the money saved from not having to get any animal feed will go towards fresh cans. On the very top went a couple of plastic storage containers that had some dried prune bits that were made up like raisins and a bunch of MRE's and other long term storage food. These Containers were large enough that with two of them stacked up they filled most of the top shelf. Along side these I put some containers of salt and some boxes of kitchen matches I had on the old shelf. I also stored some cans of pork and beans and baked beans at the front on one of the shelves as well. My future plans for this shelf are to get some can racks that are for a single row of canned goods but are long to extend back into the shelf, like the units I'm working with now. This will allow me to situate two or three of these racks side by side on several shelves while I put the #10 cans on a shelf of their own. Basically by using the right racks for the setup I have I can store just as much or more canned goods on the new pantry shelf than I may have on the old unit. Another plan is to put some type of door over the opening in order to cover the whole shelf up so as to hide the shelf and not allow it to be a focal point to anyone in the room. This may be accomplished by a sliding door or even a decorative homemade door. Whatever I find/use/build its going to have to extend almost 8' to the ceiling to cover the entire opening of the pantry. As for the old shelf outside, this will be an extension of the auto parts rack that's situated at the back of the compound. The shelf was set up next to the auto parts rack on bricks to keep it off the ground. I'll store some more of the auto parts that are still in the garage. Obviously the parts to be stored outside will be items that will be safe for outdoor storage, no sensitive parts or anything where rust would compromise their usefulness.
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