Now I know the title sounds scary – The Kitchen. It isn’t the whole kitchen. I am asking you to pick one thing – your spice drawer or your cabinet where you keep your Tupperware. You know you have that scary Tupperware cabinet. I am not asking you to go out and buy new things. You don’t have to do that. I did. I got rid of all of my plastic ware. I wanted to get glass but my husband said he would break it at work and since I pack all of his lunches and he is the one that uses the plastic ware I did not buy glass.
Here is a before and after of my plastic ware:
Here is what I did. I took everything out. I kept a few things and then I did buy those lock lid Rubbermaid things. I wanted the lids to fit together. I was tired of all of the mish mash. I did invest a little less than $20. There is a few ways to keep your plastic ware. A book I read suggested that you put all of the lids onto the proper container. If it doesn’t have a lid – get rid of it. Then you may store them like that although that does take up more room. If you don’t want to store them that way take a plastic container and put all of your lids in there. You are still going to have to search for a lid but at least the lids will all be in one place.
Now onto the spices:
In the plastic container is where I keep any mixes in a pouch that I might have. I do try to make my own, but I am not superwoman. I also wanted to label the lids of the spices but I just ran out of labels for my labelmaker so I will be doing this soon. Some of my spices already come with their lids labeled. As you can tell I moved them from a cabinet to a drawer and this has worked SO much better for me.
So your assignment this week is to tackle one thing – a drawer or a shelf in your kitchen. Take everything out and reorganize or throw away or better yet – give away!
Please leave a comment and let me know what you do or if you have a post with pictures I will link it to this post.
Happy Monday!
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8 Comments
November 15, 2009 at 8:31 pm
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November 16, 2009 at 11:51 am
I am very impressed with your tupperware cabinet!! No one would believe my picture if I took one of mine! We literally throw what belongs in there and then shut the door asap before everything tumbles out!!! I will tackle that huuuggge project today!!! Thanks!!!!
November 16, 2009 at 4:23 pm
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November 17, 2009 at 10:46 am
Very nice work. I hate the tupperware section of my cabinet. I might have to tackle that area at some point. As for the spices, another terribly disorganized area…but my spices are not labeled up top…I would have to get some tiered racks for my cabinet because I have very few drawers.
November 17, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Curious to know how your fridge is doing? I took the fridge challenge last week. I was pleased with the results…unfortunately an organized fridge doesn’t last very long because I can’t train everyone in this house to put things back in the correct place! Maybe I’ll try the spices…just don’t know how long they’ll stay in order.
November 17, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Nice job!! I really wish I could put my spices in a drawer! But we only have two, and I use them for cutlery and other miscellaneous kitchen utensils. Thanks for sharing!
November 17, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Awesome tackles!!
November 17, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Great tackles! I need a little more organization in my life, and maybe a little less procrastination too.
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