| | | You are doing incredible! You're a Clutter Rock star! Your feelings about "stuff" should be starting to transform. The more you confront, move, toss, and give away, the less you feel you need to add. This is a step toward making room in your life for things that matter.
Today you're going to make friends with your drawers in the kitchen. You may be seeing the bottom of the drawers for the first time since you moved into your home. Don't be afraid, you can do it!
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Day Six Checklist ~ Kitchen (continued)
- Clean any dirty dishes and put them away
- Take everything off countertops and evaluate the use, put back only those items you use all the time, give or throw away what you haven’t used in two years
- Go through cabinets and do the same
- Go through pantry and refrigerator and throw away or give away anything old or unused
- Replace or toss worn out cloths, towels, scrub pads
- Organize trash for recycling, paper, plastic, glass, miscellaneous (this will vary by city practices)
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| | Hopefully by now you're all enjoying the fruits of your Clutter Clean labor and your home is starting to feel more orderly and clutter free. Doesn’t it feel GOOD?
Of course if you're anything like me, your kitchen may look tidy on the surface, but it's secretly haunting you behind closed cabinet doors. So often the hustle & bustle of every day life gets in the way of keeping things organized. We rush to put away groceries without bothering–or having time–to throw out items no longer edible. We open multiple packages of the same foods, then forget which one is still good. In our haste to put the dishes away or get dinner on the table, we don’t spend quite as much time as we should putting things back in their proper place. Before you know it, it's chaos behind closed cabinet doors!
The scariest part of conquering kitchen chaos is not knowing where to begin. There are just SO MANY areas that need attending to: cabinets, silverware drawer, refrigerator, junk drawer, countertops, pantry, etc.
Don't stress. Choose ONE and work on that until you're done. Then go on to something else. Take baby steps and before you know it you'll be done. The pleasure you'll get every time you open a door (cabinet, refrigerator, pantry) will be well worth the effort! |
| | | To de-clutter your kitchen follow these steps reminder: - Place several garbage bags at the bottom of the can so you don’t have to search when you empty the trash
- Rotate your dishes, so you don’t use the same ones over and over
- Write the purchase date on your herbs and spices
- Hanging cookware on the wall can be attractive and save time
- Have twin trash cans for easy recycling
- Add a bookcase to the kitchen for your favorite cookbooks
- Place a magazine rack near the kitchen table for breakfast reading and establish a ritualized time to empty it out.
- Fruit stands and cake stands are handy for storing fruit decoratively.
- Hang some of your collections on the wall. Cookie cutters, platters, and cups all double as a display.
- Don’t just throw things on top of your refrigerator, it is okay to put things there, but plan it, so it looks nice, like baskets, flowers, boxes, something that looks nice besides a hodge-podge of whatever you need to get off the table tops
- Convert a kitchen closet into a pantry. If the kitchen is small, put a glazed glass door on to open up space. Other options for the door is a screen or to paint a door with chalkboard paint and leave notes or allow children to create art for you there
- Your pantry should have good lighting. Under cabinet lighting works nicely in a pantry
- Use the pantry floor for storage space too. Basket, paper towels, jars and water bottles can utilize this space that is often ignored
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| | Wise Words ...
The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family. ~ Mario Batali
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