It is Kitchen work out Day! Woohoo!!!
First off, can we just take a quick second to romance over this picture of this stunning Ikea kitchen!!! I LOVE this kitchen, and truly believe that one day, it will be mine! lol.....
OK, back to reality, So this week has been intense for some of us! We have become masters of tackling the clutter in our Bathrooms, Bedrooms and living/family rooms! Today we will focus on the Kitchen/Pantry.
For me, my kitchen is up on the main floor, but my pantry is in our lower level, so I have a ton of stuff to go through. Today, do not only look at the food items that need to be tossed (such as the bowl of left overs at the back of your fridge, or the canned goods that have a best before date of three years ago), but also go through all of your appliances, dishes, cutting boards, etc.
Dealing with my kitchen is close to my heart. Its my favorite place to create things for my family and friends. I have so many great tools, that I use maybe once in every 5 years (you know that Christmas when you stayed up all night because you were determined to bake those darn cookies everyone loved, before your second and third child came along. lol). Needless to say, I have some letting go to do. This will be by far the hardest day for me!
Lets give each other strength to get through today's tasks and push forward! We CAN do this!!!
OK, let us recap those important questions we need to be asking while we work on the clutter today!
1) Have we used this in the past 3 months?
2) Will we use this in the next 3 months?
3) Do we have multiple of the same item and therefor I can either combine them or limit it down to one or two?
4) Is any part of this item broken or defected?
5) Is this something we would actually end up buying (or buy again)?
6) Are we only keeping this because I bought it and do not want to waste my money?
7) Does this have sentimental value to us that we cannot live without?
2) Will we use this in the next 3 months?
3) Do we have multiple of the same item and therefor I can either combine them or limit it down to one or two?
4) Is any part of this item broken or defected?
5) Is this something we would actually end up buying (or buy again)?
6) Are we only keeping this because I bought it and do not want to waste my money?
7) Does this have sentimental value to us that we cannot live without?
Don't forget to grab those boxes or bags for these categories;
* Donate
* Garage sale or kijij
* Can go to another room to be put away PROPERLY
* Toss it
* Garage sale or kijij
* Can go to another room to be put away PROPERLY
* Toss it
And of course, anything that would not fit in these categories would be the items that you put away properly in your Kitchen!
Remember we CAN do this! Kitchen and Pantry is often a large area to cover, so we will take both today and tomorrow to accomplish this. Let's Get it DONE!
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