Welcome to the 30-Day Organize-athon!
In today’s 5 minutes we’re going to freshen up your crockery and glassware.
Remember: take a deep breath and think clarity, freedom and order, as you go.
Day 6: Freshen Up Your Crockery & Glassware
Step 1: Get a garbage bag and line it with some newspaper.
Step 2: Quickly scan your crockery and glassware. Put into your bag any bowls, plates, cups, saucers, mugs or glasses that are:
- Chipped
- Stained
- Mismatched
- In poor condition
- Ugly promotional items.
Step 3: Place your bag in the trash or empty it into the recycle bin as appropriate.
Step 4: If you need to replace any items, make a note on your shopping list.
Step 5: Do a quick tidy of your remaining crockery and glassware so that:
- Similar things are together, and
- Most commonly used items are most easily accessible.
And you’re done!
Got an Extra 5 Minutes?
Decide to abandon your ‘special occasion’ stash.
- If you have glasses, crockery or other items you only use for special occasions, consider abandoning this idea.
- If the items are too delicate or not your taste, perhaps you could donate them?
- If they’re nice and usable, perhaps you could integrate them with your everyday stuff and get pleasure out of them more regularly? You’ll also save yourself the trouble of packing them away after every use.
Now won’t meals be more pleasurable?
The 30-Day Organize-athon Mantra
Move fast. Don’t overthink. Let it go!
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See you tomorrow!
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wow almost forgot to check in today, done!!
Complete
I’m not a sentimental hoarder but I do have two small tupperware boxes in my cupboard that contain some of my mother’s china tea cup collection. I keep them on a top shelf and they stay clean in the boxes so it works for me. Glasses don’t last long here so they aren’t a problem. Most everything else is either used every day so must be needed or in hard to access cupboards that I wouldn’t be using for anything else. I still have one son to leave home so I’m sure whatever extra crockery I have will be going with him when he sets up a place to live.
Almost forgot to post…I did this so early in the morning, right before leaving for work. I took 5 minutes-didn’t have any extra time to spare for any further than that…but at least I got rid off all of those ugly drinking cups, mugs- the ones that were “freebies” and had some company’s name emblazoned on the front, for the sake of promotion. Although I didn’t get to spend much time on organization today, doing the 5 minutes was enough to keep me feeling that I am moving forward and have not “failed” in my commitment!
Great! Thanks
Lots of extra cupboard room now!
done
Done.
late start on this one, but done before days end!
Completed! Luckily this was another one that gets done fairly regularly already
OH GOSH so much STTTTTUUUUUUFFFFFF
Nice to see a MALE name here!
If only I could get my hubbby and daughter to LET me get rid of chipped dishes.
Sigh.
Not one of my more successful organizing days, so I went out and bought new shelf liner for previous project.
on to tomorrow …
what will it be?
Caitlin
All done! 🙂
Flower arrangement in a cup for Christmas, then one for Valentine’s, then one for a birthday. The flowers die, the cup goes in the cabinet. I had a ton of them and they’re all in the charity box. Woohoo!
Crockery and glassware all freshened!
Goodwill might enjoy having company logo cups from my work collection. I rarely used them anyway. Now I thinking of getting rid of some tupperware cups to make even more room. I live alone and don’t need all these dishes. Just holding on to these sentimental dishes…maybe I’ll give away one set and just keep the 8 piece set.
Did some reorganizing of cabinets while tackling this task. Of course, this took longer than 5 min! I will need to go through some other cabinets to remove more stuff I don’t use anymore.
Good thing I did this recently. I have been out of the house from 6:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and am beat! My cups and dishes are good.
A lot accomplished but I cannot say I am finished. I recently inherited lots and lots and “good” china, etc. Today I purged a lot — and I donated cracked dishes to a friend who does mosaics. But I am definitely not finished . . . I will continue to work on this. If I decide not to use my really valuable china everyday, I will sell it to a local antique shop. Don’t get me wrong, I really accomplished a lot today. It just took a lot longer than 5 minutes, and the task is definitely not complete.
done! Lot’s thrown away and given away…feels good