You can ask my mom and she will tell you that my room as a teen was a hot mess half of the time. Clothes on the floor or on my chair (I mean, what else would you use a chair for?), random stuff all over my desk or makeup on the floor. But if you looked at my school supplies they were always organised.
Color coded books and folders, pens in all the colors of the rainbow and in an amount that could supply a whole class. The point is: I loved having things organised but I hated cleaning stuff up. The minute I organised my makeup it wasn’t spread around the whole room anymore because I always put it back where it belonged.

So when I was diagnosed I knew that I had to come up with a way to organise my supplies. Else they would have been spread all over my room, hard to find and quite dangerous. I mean imagine having used needles on the floor? Yeah, no thank you. So we went to Ikea and found a nifty container that fit into the drawer of my shelf. I kept pretty much everything in there and had my insulin in our fridge. Fast forward 9 Years later and I live in my own appartment and I still use the same shelf. Only now I have two drawers plus a cabinet at the bottom because I have more supplies. I snapped some pictures so that you get an idea of how you could organise your supplies and have everything in one place

Those are the two drawers at the top

and this is the cabinet at the bottom. The shelf is an Ikea Besta Shelf and you can add the drawers.

The top drawer has all my CGM supplies. So everything that has to do with the enlite sensor goes in there: Inserter, Sensors, Tape, Charger and Scissors to cut the tape.

The bottom drawer has all my Pump supplies: Quick-Sets, Alcohol Pads, Reservoirs, Inserter, Lancets, Test Strips, Batteries, extra Pump Clip and two little containers for trash. My Insulin is stored in the fridge.

Now on to the cabinet. In here I keep all my extras and things that I don’t use as much.

Extras include: Dextro-Tabs, Teststrips, Reservoirs, Quick-Sets and Alcohol Pads.

As for the things that I don’t use as much I have Ketonestrips, Syringes, Travel Coolers, Extra Meters and Travel Cases

So that’s it, my diabetes supplies organisation. I hope that I could inspire some of you to organise your stuff. Believe me, if you have it organised it’s much easier to do site changes or grab something real quick. If you have to search for a certain item chances are that you’re just gonna ignore it. And we all know how that can end when your diabetic 😉