This Dollar Tree Hack Will Have Your Drawers Smelling Fresh For Less

You can have too much of a good thing, but when it comes to fresh-smelling tricks and hacks, the limit does not exist. Any time a new DIY or trend lands on social media platforms, it's likely worth trying and could become your favorite home improvement go-to. Soap isn't just for your hands and body, and while it can easily clean your leather furniture or serve a variety of other unexpected household uses, creating scent sachets might be an ideal alternative. 

A Dollar Tree visit will be worth it when you learn the secret behind a couple of bars of Yardley London soap, Organza Drawstring bags, and a cheese grater to create fragrant scented sachets to keep your drawers fresh. The overall DIY is simple, but you can upgrade it in several different ways. Not only will these keep your items smelling good, but they are budget-friendly and easy to store even in tight spaces!

Set a large plate down and grate the bars onto it to make placing the shavings in the bags easier. Grate enough for several or as many bags as you need. Add your shavings to your organza bags, then pull the drawstrings tight to keep everything inside. You can use one kind of soap or mix different complementary bars to customize a scent. You can also cut the soap into smaller blocks if you don't want to shave the bar, but shavings make it easier to fit the bags into smaller areas.

Organza bags are ideal because their thin material allows the scent to come through, so your drawers will smell amazing from the shavings. If you prefer to make your own bags, you can use coffee filters and a rubber band or string, which is still thin enough to allow the aromas through but just offers a different way to secure the soap. Once you notice the smell disappearing, you can simply grate a new bar and replace the shavings in the bag.

Cutting your soap into smaller bars can help the scent last longer, and rather than shaving your bar all at once, it might be helpful to chop it into halves or quarters and keep these in the original box until you need them for your sachets. Soap actually preserves best in dark, cool areas, so your drawer is an ideal place for both the shaving sachets and your unused soap bars. If you want to keep scents separate, choose which soap you'll use as a freshener, then store your extras in another drawer, inside their packaging, or wrapped in parchment paper.

Most bar soaps can hold their scent for up to two years. With this in mind, you can set timelines for when to replace your shavings and how long each bar can last. Once you're done with your original shavings, you can simply throw them away or place them in netted soap bags like this Amazon option, sold for $5, and use them for bathing or cleaning. You can also add soap shavings to your compost pile when you're finished with them. Keep the bags for reuse, and to avoid mixing too many scents, coordinate the colors to remember which bags you used for which aromas (like purple for lavender, etc.).