Seeing Clutter... Decluttering and Zone Cleaning - Zone 2 Kitchen
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Zone 2 – Kitchen
This Zone was more successful than Zone One. I was more
eager to get started and we had a bit of a catalyst to start a day early.
On Saturday we bought some new baking trays as a lot of ours
were old and scratched and Sainsbury’s had a special offer on homeware. When we
were looking at places to store them, I ended up pulling everything out of the
cupboard under the oven.
I did record some of it but because I started a day early, I
wasn’t quite prepared! I did take a before picture, but I didn’t check it and
it’s so blurry.
We also had a massive clear-out and declutter of a lot of
the things that we don’t use or have duplicates of (6 loaf tins) apart from one
occasion making some stuffing in one of the silicon one.
I haven’t taken a new photo but almost two weeks after we
reorganised that cupboard it’s still looking the same.
Every time I did a bit in the kitchen, I seemed to work on three cupboards at once. As I was dealing with the items in that cupboard, I found a handheld blender and I know we own 2 of them and I knew there were other parts in another cupboard.
One of the rules is not to pull out more than you can deal
with, this might have been a step over the line. Although I hadn’t set a timer
as all I was doing was getting rid of the old trays and putting the new ones in
their place.
I only spent an hour on it and I had three cupboards
organised about 5 bags of rubbish and a pile of things to send to the charity
shop. Sadly, these are still sat on the worktop but we did get my dad to take
all the rubbish to the tip so that was a massive win.
In the double cupboard or as I call it Tupperware corner, I
decluttered and resorted it so we have kept some sentimental items, some cute
bowls that I’ll probably never use and managed to find a space for the nice
Christmas dinner service. There is also space left and I have some ideas what I
want to move into that cupboard.
Feeling motivated I managed to tackle quite a few cupboards
but I have left the more daunting ones. Manana, manana. One of the things I
found was I felt like I wanted to do things and a little bit of accidental
tidying and decluttering happened. One night I was looking for some stock cubes
and I ended up pulling everything out, purging out of date items, sorting and
putting back and moving things to other cupboards and sorting them out as well.
It has been a three cupboard at a time but hopefully, it will
mean like items are together. I also changed the use of one of the cupboards
from an overspill tea and coffee cupboard to hold cereal and snacks.
I’ve been using the control journal a lot, I’ve learnt that
I need every part of the kitchen labelled so rather than putting a set of drawers
I need to list all of them individually. Especially while I’m in the declutter
phase. As you can see from the photos of my kitchen page I wrote on additional
items on the paper under the plastic page divider. I also know I said I wasn’t
buying dry wipe markers but they are working out really well.
I also did a map of the kitchen on excel. with each cupboard on it and I've coloured them in as I go, I like the visual representation of completing an area.
There is still a long way to go and we have accumulated the things over a long period of time and we also have a lot of items we used to have at the caravan and when my granparents house was sold after they passed away we brought a lot of their things home, which is one of the reasons for so many duplicated items, but it's time to let go. Make room and get orgaised.
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