5 Ways to Get Organized with the IKEA RASKOG Cart while You’re Stuck at Home

Use the IKEA RASKOG cart to organize every area of your house and make your days run more smoothly!

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All of this extra time at home has come with plenty of challenges, including organizing challenges.

We’re doing school from home, so we need to be able to keep the kids’ classes and materials organized.

So that we make as few trips to the grocery store as possible, I try to stock up as much as I can when I go, leaving me with an overflowing pantry that needs to be tamed.

Since all of our outside activities are canceled, we’ve needed to find ways to keep ourselves entertained and occupied at home.

And we’ve been cleaning like crazy, trying to keep germs as far away as possible!

As I thought about ways to get organized during this extended time at home, I kept coming back to one organizing tool that could help us fix many of our organizing problems– the IKEA RASKOG cart!

5 Ways the IKEA RASKOG Cart Will Get You Organized

We’ve had our RASKOG rolling cart for years, and I’ve used it for everything from organizing art supplies to organizing my office to organizing jewelry and accessories and more.

I love IKEA’s rolling carts because they are so versatile and can be easily moved in and out of spaces as needed. They’re great for big homes and small homes alike. AND they come in cute colors, which is a plus! 🙂

Since my cart is several years old, IKEA doesn’t carry this teal color currently, but they do have several other beautiful colors to choose from. (I am swooning over the gray-green one right now!)

(RASKOG carts are also very easy to spray paint. So if you have a particular color in mind, it wouldn’t be hard to hit it with some paint to make it match any space!)

I came up with five different ways that the RASKOG utility cart could be used to get organized during this time and set up our own cart as an example!

Here are just a few of the ways you could use IKEA’s iconic cart to organize your own home…

1. Homeschool Cart

I have a whole new respect for teachers after being thrown into the “homeschool facilitator” role now that our boys are learning from home! There are so many small details to keep track of, so having all of our supplies in one place is essential.

I used a bakeware rack on the top shelf of our rolling cart to “file” our iPad, Chromebook, and a few binders to make them easy to get to.

I also popped in a few cups from IKEA’s GODMORGON line to hold chargers and ear buds.

Most of our boys’ work has been done online. But the binders on the cart hold the few worksheets they need, plus blank notebook and graph paper that their teachers have them use occasionally.

I also made sure to include all of the possible office/art supplies they may need. Again, I used the GODMORGON cups to keep everything divided neatly.

Here’s a list of everything I included on our IKEA RASKOG homeschool cart:

• Bakeware rack
• Binders for worksheets and blank paper
• Chromebook
• iPad
• Charging cords
• Headphones
• GODMORGON cups
• Crayons
• Scissors
• Erasers
• Stapler
• Glue sticks
• Tape
• Pencils
• Colored pencils
• Pencil sharpener
• Clipboards
• White boards
• Dry erase markers

2. IKEA RASKOG Sanitizing Station

Never have I ever been so paranoid about germs. (Has this pandemic made anyone else realize that they touch their face all. the. time?! Just me???)

I thought it would be helpful to have a “sanitizing station” where all of the cleaning, disinfecting, and sanitizing products could be easily accessible in a central location.

(Obviously, just make sure you keep items out of reach of any littles who don’t know how to use them correctly!)

Along with cleaning wipes and sprays, I also included paper towels, washcloths, and tissues. I added extra containers of anti-bacterial soap as well, and I used magnetic clips to hang fabric face masks from the side of the cart.

The top shelf holds a large container of hand sanitizer, as well as a few travel-sized containers that people can grab and take with them if they have to leave the house.

The IKEA 365+ dry food jar made the perfect dispenser for disposable gloves so everyone in the household could easily access them when needed.

Here are all of the items I included in our IKEA kitchen cart sanitizing station:

• Disinfectant wipes
• IKEA 365+ dry food container
• Disposable gloves
• Hand sanitizer
• Travel hand sanitizer (in small bowl)
• Magnetic clips
• Cloth face masks
• Washcloths (in clear bin)
• Anti-bacterial hand soap
• Tissues
• Disinfectant spray
• Paper towels

3. IKEA RASKOG Game Cart

If we’re going to be home 24/7, we might as well make it as fun as possible, right?!

I liked the idea of bringing our puzzles, cards, and games down to the main level of the house since we are reaching for them a lot more often these days. The RASKOG cart was the perfect way to do that!

I designated one level for each type of activity– games, cards, and puzzles– and used my cutting machine + adhesive vinyl to create pretty labels for the cart.

I corralled our card games in an IKEA KUGGIS box. After getting sick of card boxes ripping and falling apart, I recently moved our decks of cards into color coded zipper pouches, and we are loving it!

Here is everything I included on the IKEA RASKOG cart for games:

• Board games (Harry Potter Trivial Pursuit, Don’t Break the Ice, Clue, Mario Chess, Trouble, and Sorry!)
• KUGGIS Box
• Zipper Pouches
• Card games (regular decks of cards, Crazy 8s, Uno, Phase 10)
• Puzzles
• GODMORGON container
• Rubik’s cubes
• Bananagrams

4. Pantry Overflow

I have been pushing our pantry to its limit because I have been buying more food than usual on my grocery trips so I don’t have to go to the store as often.

The RASKOG cart is one of my favorite ways to add storage space in the kitchen, and it is perfect for keeping all of that pantry overflow organized.

I decided to use each level of the cart for a different category of food– pasta and rice makings on the top, soups in the middle, and baking items on the bottom.

Since the items in our pantry overflow are likely to change each time we go to the store, I used simple labels that are less permanent and easily changed.

I grabbed a printable label, put a little piece of washi tape on it for a pop of color, and used my handheld label maker to print a label on clear tape. I used binder clips to attach them to the cart.

Here is everything I stored on our RASKOG utility cart in the kitchen:

• IKEA 365+ containers for pasta and rice
• Various sauces
• Various soups
• Y-weave bin
• Baking items (cocoa, sprinkles, frosting, food coloring, pudding mix, almond extract, cupcake liners)
• Printable labels
• Binder clips

5. IKEA RASKOG Book Nook

Finally, we’ve been working hard to get our boys to use their extra time to read and be creative, so I thought using our rolling cart to create a little “book nook” would be fun!

We have several books in digital format, so I left space for eReaders and chargers on the bottom shelf.

The middle shelf holds a selection of the books that the boys are most into these days so that they can easily grab one and get reading.

On the top shelf, I put an assortment of activity books, along with a divided organizer that holds markers and crayons.

Anytime the kids say “I’m bored!” we can just direct them to this cart where they can choose what they want to do to keep themselves occupied!

The items on our RASKOG reading cart include:

• Activity books and coloring books
• Divided organizer
• Markers and crayons
• Age-appropriate books (Our boys are into the Magesterium, Dog Man, and Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series these days!)
• eReaders + power cords

There are so many possible ways that the IKEA RASKOG cart can help us stay organized during this crazy time. And I’ve found that when we’re more organized, we’re also less stressed and can enjoy our home more. (Which is important since we’re spending so much time there!)

I hope this post has given you some ideas of how you could use a rolling cart to get organized. I know this isn’t a completely exhaustive list, so let me know in the comments how you use the RASKOG cart in your own home!

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For more ideas on how to improve your life at home without leaving it, see this post.

Thank you so much for following along! Have a wonderful week!

A huge thanks to IKEA for sponsoring this post! My favorable opinion of cute and versatile organizing tools is 100% my own. This post contains affiliate links. For more information, see my disclosures here.