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Welcome to Day 2 of 7 Days To A Dramatically Decluttered Home.
Today’s task will take about 1 hour. How long you spend depends on what you want to achieve.
We’re going to begin by getting clear on the role of your kitchen in your home and your life. We’ll then use that to declutter your kitchen.
Let’s get started.
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Took an hour before work this morning and went through all the drawers and cabinets. If I have not used it, it went in the box. No guilt! After work I happened to have the house to myself (rarely happens) and cleaned out the refrigerator.. Now my feet are going up and time to relax..
3 drawers done, 4 to go. It was easy and I have a paper sack started which I’m sure will be full tomorrow when I finish.
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The following is my group’s decisions:
We cook simple meals; For classes we are taking to better ourselves & our personal lives; We do weekly or monthly social activities; If you have a house mate you can share the cooking responsibilities; Items we make: coffee and toast, reheat pizza, cooking dinner nightly, use microwave [microwaves are considered bad for your health]. Make sure you set your kitchen timer, setting the table; we spend our free time: watching TV, listen to music, hands on the computer, ironing, daily chores and cook dinner; you linger & sip wine & relax? We disagree due to medication[s] we don’t drink alcohol/wine
Grab your bag(s) or boxes and quickly make your way around the kitchen, tossing in things that:
You haven’t used in the last 6months but keep if it’s seasonal; Are broken & won’t get fixed (be honest) trash or recycle; Are multiples (no, you don’t need 7 spatulas) unless you work in a restaurant; Are more than you need – e.g. multiple sets of crockery, cutlery, or glassware it’s nice to keep an extra in case of breakage; Our kitchens are extremely small & unable to give it a value; We don’t have much space available in our living quarters; Keep it simple stupid; entertaining has almost been eliminated; Are too much about the past = antiques can be sold/they increase in value; Are too much about the future do you know what you want for the future/you may think you do but you may not; You hate is a personal choice
Be on the lookout for: Excess Tupperware we agree; Stained, chipped, or mismatched crockery Stained or Chipped = Trash; Mismatched Crockery = try to find a new use for these before donating, selling or trashing. Grotty, chipped, or mismatched glassware Grotty or Chipped = Trash. Mismatched glassware can still be used. Stained, rusty, = trash or mismatched cutlery can still be used; Tatty, stained, = trash or mismatched napery cloth napkins can still be used; Utensils you don’t use = personal choice; Appliances you don’t use or use so rarely they don’t justify the kitchen space = personal choice; Cookbooks you don’t use Donate to local cooking club or Library.
Day 2 Kitchen progress is being made. I still have a lot to do. Cluttered and chaotic describes my kitchen on a normal basis I have 2 sections cleared and one was the catch all. Now is the time to find homes for those things. My Kitchen is the center of my family life and home. It is not used just for cooking the breakfast nook doubles as my office when I am unable to work downstairs in my studio when my kids are home. It is where all of my craft projects that do not involve sewing (that is what is done in my studio) The kitchen is where my desk top computer for the family is.
I am so excited that the top of my refrigerator is cleared. The just toss it motto gave me the personal permission to dump all of the baby & toddler dishes. Gone are the “collectible” cups that come home from wherever that land in the cupboard. In the past I have streamlined a bit but there have been things that have not gone, still working on the courage. The pantry is the next step in the kitchen decutter, especially it has been a landing spot for the “what to do with it?” stuff.
I am so excited to finally have my long counter top clear. The only thing left on it is my toaster and Keurig which we use everyday. There is still the pantry and one cabinet to do but I feel great about it!
I just started the 7 day program and I am a little confused. I can see the daily assignments, but is there other material I am supposed to be able to download? If so, I am having a problem
Although I haven’t been able to do all the tasks my third time going through this program, I wanted to share that I managed to trash the food cart by last weekend as was my goal. Some of the items from the cart are in temporary locations until I can re-organize more of my kitchen cabinets. But getting rid of the cart has made such a difference in space and energy of my kitchen that for the first few days I couldn’t stop saying ‘Wow!’ (And I hope to repeat this program for another week or two as soon as my schedule eases up.) Thanks, Michele and Kylie 🙂
I continued decluttering and re-organizing food items from the cart in the kitchen. My goal is to trash the cart by the end of this coming weekend!
I see you stated we have two months after the start date. Does that apply to Premium Members. Every book or lesson we have access to for two months only once we open the planners. I wanted to browse some of the books/planners. Is that not advised? I don’t want to lose those in two months if I open and look now. Please clarify…thank you.
The kitchen will take me more than one day because my week is extrememly packed and going out of town Friday-Sunday but chose to start now because if not I would put it off and this will sit here another year. So to the kitchen I will go….we will see what happens.
I tossed some food today, i.e. dry goods that were past their best before date, items I’m unlikely to use, and other products I no longer eat or enjoy.
I didn’t do my kitchen yesterday, but I am doing it today. I had cleaned out some of my restroom drawers a few months back so I feel okay about not spending much time on the restroom today. It’s great to read other folks’ comments because then I don’t feel like I’m the only one who feels bad throwing away something possibly useful.
I posted this question below but I guess it was missed: How can I see the comments for this program that are posted on FB? Natasha mentioned the lounge room – where is that? Thanks.
Did not get around to complete the kitchen task. Was spending my hour searching for the garage key that got lost in the clutter….. how bad is that….?
I ended up tossing a bunch of old baking pans – don’t know why I still had them when I bought a new set last year! I discovered a mini-muffin pan I had forgotten about – I’ve been debating buying one but now I won’t have to 🙂 I also finally tossed a juicer that was recalled due to a flaw and which I received a replacement for from the manufacturer (who did not ask for the original product back). Actually, the juicer had made it’s way into the living room but no further. Ok, I have to confess that I have this bad habit when I’m throwing something out – I look to see if there’s some part of it I might be able to still use or re-purpose. So I pulled out a few pieces to save – but then caught myself. I swear I heard your voice in my head, Michele! So I put those pieces in a separate trash bag and immediately threw them down the trash chute and left the rest of the juicer to be picked up by maintenance. For a second I experienced a feeling of ‘what-if dread’ but it passed! Lol
I ended up doing the values part after the decluttering which seemed to work out because the extra space allowed me to visualize possibilities. I have more to do, which includes getting rid of a lot of glassware. All the extra space will allow me to re-arrange some things and store groceries (dry goods) and kitchenware more efficiently. p.s. I thought I wouldn’t have much to declutter because I did that last year before and after kitchen renovations but now I see things taking up valuable real estate. I love my kitchen since it’s been renovated and I am going to love it even more once I reclaim some precious space 🙂
The 10 minute exercise was amazing, deceptively simple! what is the kitchen FOR? I got that and that makes it simple–anything not on the idea of what the kitchen is for goes! I need to post tomorrow coz I ran out of time will try and get my girls to help me finish the last 5% (bonus)
The kitchen is going to be tough – that’s the hubby’s real estate. I did a big purge of broken and double items this summer. I do have a few things I have been reluctant to let go that we don’t use, like our panini press. It’s taking up storage space (although not in the kitchen) and we haven’t unpacked it since we moved in 5 and a half years ago! Mindset #3 is getting me – I feel bad tossing it, it’s brand new and very nice! Maybe I’ll post it on Freecycle. We have also gotten new cookie sheets, so I need to go through the old ones. And, my cabinet with the pots really bothers me, so I’m going to try and attack that, too.
I probably won’t get to this tonight, as I won’t be home until almost midnight, but it’s on my list for this week!
I just read the comments in day 1 (lounge room) I love how everyone seems to have done what they should have got done. I feel I have failed, I did the first part of the day and number 3 is just want I needed to hear. I did do a mini spring cleaned of the main area of the lounge on the weekend – dust, sweep and moped (moved the furniture to do underneath), cleaned lounge covers and put some things away but still had things laying around when day 1 was posted. I have now moved most of these things to the rooms they belong in (but not much more)
But I am going to tell the kids tomorrow after school they need to clean up their stuff they have dumped in the lounge the last few days if they want to keep it. So hopefully when I get home I can complete tidying up this area before dinner time.
It just yesterday and today have found it really had to find an hour when I am not rushing around and not feeling tried and hot.
Yesterday finished work at 2pm but didn’t stop running around until about 6 (shopping, pool test, blood sample/tests to be taken, then a cat emergency trip to the vet). When finally got home it was dinner time and after I ate I didn’t feel well (opps wrong amount or type).
This afternoon hasn’t been that much better – running around with the kids, a flat car battery after the kids gym didn’t help, washing clothes that need next few days that got used today. So at 10pm I have only just read day 2 challenge but finding it hard to keep my eyes open and brain thinking (thank godness for spell check at this time of night).
Have done the first part – I want my kitchen to be an area where I can quickly cook healthy meals for me and my 3 kids that fit all diet requiements (which I think might change again after blood results). I don’t want to hang out in it. My kitchen is just a kitchen, there is no dinning table, sitting beach area. I need to go though the plastic containers and drink bottles – hopefully can do this while dinner is cooking tomorrow. Better pull out the chicken – thanks for the reminder.
I am thinking that all I am really going to get done on this challenge is tidying up the area with a little sorting out/decluttering but not as much as I would like to do. But I have to give myself permission to say that’s OK I do this little bit done – sort so can actually move around the place and find things, with some throwing away. Then on Saturdays when I and the kids have nothing booked in can really attack it hard (hopefully with their help???).
Just a question. In Bonus Step#2.. what is CBD locations??