Day 23: Fridge Clean Out I clean out our fridge on a somewhat regular basis, usually a quick clean out once a week before I go to the grocery store and a deep cleaning a few times a year where we empty the fridge, scrub the entire thing, and then restock. The thing is, even if you clean out your fridge regularly, sometimes things happen, and you end up with stuff in the fridge and absolutely no idea what it is (or was) and why its even in there. Things only get worse the more people ...
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Day 22: Declutter Your Pantry
Day 22: Declutter Your Pantry I am lucky enough to have a dry basement where we set up a portion of it as a pantry, but whether you have an entire room or just one cabinet in your kitchen, decluttering your pantry should be done with some regularity so you don't have cabinets full of expired food going to waste. While you may be comfortable eating food past its date, food banks can not accept food after its expiration. Keep this in mind while decluttering your pantry. All food ...
Day 21: Declutter Your Cabinets
Day 21: Declutter Your Cabinets Do you have a cabinet (or 2 or 3) that is ready to attack you the minute you open it up? Now its time to declutter your cabinets so that doesn't happen any more! Over the last twenty-one days, we have already decluttered the cabinets under your kitchen & bathroom sink, your food storage container cabinet, your medicine cabinet, and the cabinet that is home to your travel mugs and water bottles. Today, pick any of those projects to finish, ...
Day 20: Table Tops
Day 20: Table Tops Not a single flat surface in the house is immune from being the dumping ground for clutter. Whether its the children's school work or junk mail, or a million other items that pass through the house on any given day, it all lands onto one of the flat surfaces - more often than not the kitchen counter or our dining table. Put stuff away! That may sound too easy, but its true. File the mail instead of leaving it out. Have the children put their ...
Day 19: Counter Tops
Day 19: Counter Tops When I wake up in the morning, and go into my kitchen to make my first cup of tea, I have this sense of peace seeing clean and clear counter tops, and an empty sink. Most days, I don't get to have that sense of peace because the kitchen gets so cluttered that it actually makes me angry and frustrated to be in there. So, for tomorrow's challenge, Day 19, we are going to declutter our counter tops. 5 Tips for Decluttering Counter Tops Put stuff away! ...