Kitchen Pantry Organization Ideas

My pantry needs help.  I've let it become a clutter pit of anything and everything, and it takes forever to find what I need to cook with.  I am constantly complaining to Chris about the state of it, but I've always thought there wasn't much I could do because we live in an apartment complex.
If I had my way I'd take out the shelves, replace them the way I wanted, add some pull out shelves, and make use of the two feet of empty space at the top.  But that wasn't happening so I had to find some other way to make my dream of an organized pantry come true.

I took a lot of stuff out of the top shelves, but as you
can see the bottom is kind of a jumbled mess!

I'm a huge advocate for Pinterest.  I reference it all the time when I want to simplify a space in my home, otherwise I'll go into an organization project blindly and it won't come out the way I want it to.  So I grabbed my cup of coffee and began my search for a new and organized pantry!

This article from Apartment Therapy has some great
 ideas for containers to use for organizing your pantry! 

I love the idea from Domestic Imperfection of using
desk organizers to organize spices in your pantry. 

Organize with Sandy used command hooks to hang things in
her pantry instead of using nails. Great idea for an apartment! 

The one thing I absolutely hate about our pantry is how small it is.  It's very narrow and they did not utilize the space very well when building it.  I guess I should count my blessings that we actually have a pantry, no matter how small it is.

After taking the measurements I made lists of what I have and what I need.  

So I set off on an Internet quest to find what I need!  I'm always looking for cheap solutions so I like to find things online and then head over to my favorite store (HomeGoods) to see if they have what I need at a discount.  

Here are a few of the things I found online:

Pasta Storage Solutions

(Top Left): Potato Storage
(Top Right and Bottom Left): Drawer Storage
(Bottom Left): Expandable Shelf for Canned Goods 

I found all of these solutions at The Container Store.  They're all great solutions, but if I bought them from there I'd spend $79.40.  That amount is giving me slight heart palpitations and I don't think Chris's heart (or budget) would be able to take that either.  

My goal is to spend $40 or less.  Do you think I can do it?  Stay tuned to find out....