Well, all of my upper kitchen cabinets are now totally clean! Unfortunately, now I have another project to work through and need to get going on it. Let me show my pictures and then I will explain.

<--- This is the cabinet to the left of my sink before I cleaned it out. My final cabinet! I haven't changed much, but I did clean out the junk and throw stuff away.

You know, when I do a project like this, it really gets me motivated to do more projects. As I said in an earlier post, when I return from my semi-vacation, I want to tackle my lower cabinets.

AFTER:
This is my newly organized cabinet. I said I have a new project to work on, so let me explain now.

On the left-middle shelf, you see a stack of cookbook magazines. My new project is to begin working through these, pulling out recipes that I am wanting to try, and to begin working those recipes into our weekly meal plans. This way, I will actually try them. Once we make and try them, the family will vote on whether we want to have that again one night. If majority says, “yes” then it will be added to my recipe box. If majority say, “no” then in the trash it will go!

Hopefully, if we choose to keep something, I will have to time to sit down and add the recipe to my blog

1. Join me in cleaning out my cabinets?
2. Cabinet Clean Out Update 1
3. Cabinet Clean Out Update 2

Today has been one of those days… we didn’t get much school work done as I had an eye appointment this morning. After the eye appointment, I went to my Creative Memories lady’s house to pick up a few things (to the tune of 200+ dollars, YIKES). Then, we went to eat and picked up my middle one from his school early after getting a call from the nurse. Ick!

Anyway, I was sewing during the baby’s nap and decided I needed to get up and be a bit productive so I got busy on a couple more cabinets.

BEFORE:

Remember this one? I wasn’t even sure of what was in this cabinet. I found some after sun lotion that I put in the fridge, some tanning lotion that I took to my bathroom, a globe that goes over and old light (TRASH), and some Bingo dobbers (also trash as I haven’t been to Bingo in YEARS).

After cleaning it all out I found that I was able to put something in here that has been sitting on top of my fridge… driving me insane!

AFTER:

That is so much better! Now, I can actually get to my appetizer plates without moving anything, the gumball machine is off my fridge, and the money miser that we only use occasionally is in the back.

Can you tell a difference? I did put things away out of here and threw away a bit, also. I wish I had more cabinets to keep things in, but they seem to do what I want as long as I don’t stash trash and junk in them.

BEFORE:

On this one, it is hard to see a difference, but I can feel it. My middle shelf is now basically snacks (which means I was able to get a couple bags of chips off my pantry floor. That is another project for another day!)

I found tons of napkins in this drawer that I threw away. I also found 2 Pyrex dishes I didn’t even know I had . I have moved them to my laundry room with my other glass bake ware, so maybe I will use them now. If I don’t, I know someone who is moving into their own home soon and I will pass these right along.

AFTER:

Can you tell? #1, I pulled the Pyrex dishes out of the right corner where they were hidden and was able to put my poinsettia plates in that space. Now, I don’t have to move the Christmas plates to get to the solid white plates. I was also able to stack my Christmas serving bowls with those plates, so that made more room.

Consequently, I was able to free basically that whole top, right, shelf for my serving dishes, clearing out the entire middle shelf for our snacks! That cleared out my bottom shelf, so I don’t have to move chips to get to my bread basket and my cutting boards! YAY! Much easier to handle.

Oh, I also corralled all those packs of cookies into some Tupperware. It is amazing how much less room they take up this way.

I can’t wait to hear about others’ Kitchen Cabinet Clean Outs!!

Earlier today I wrote about my horrible kitchen cabinets. During supper prep tonight, I tackled a couple of them.

Do you remember the before pictures? Here they are again, just much smaller.
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These are the two cabinets flanking my stove.

Now my TA-DAs on these two. The best part is, they did not take long. I reorganized, de-cluttered, and wiped out both cabinets while prepping supper!

Cabinet #1 – to the right of my stove:

I threw out 14 prescription bottles dating all the way back to 2002!! OK, that is just plain crazy, isn’t it? I have reorganized my meds several times in the past 7 years, but could not part with my them. LOL! Who knows why? I told you I am frugal, but that is just plain ridiculous! It isn’t as if I (or anyone else in my house) has been taking them.

Now, the medicines are in their correct spots and I even put all my glasses away. After looking back at the first picture, I am surprised anyone believed me when I said I had mugs on the middle shelf .

Cabinet Number Two, to the left of my stove:
The spice cabinet doesn’t really look much different, but I did throw several empty bottles away. I was also able to combine to black pepper containers into one.

The main thing is… look my toaster is put away and so are my dish rags .

For those that want to know: I have zero counter space in my kitchen, so I had to be able to put most things away. This is why my toaster and can opener belong in my cabinet.

I can’t wait to see other people’s before and after pictures! Check in tomorrow as I clean out some more of those horrible cabinets Maybe, just maybe, when I get back from my semi-vacation, I will see about tackling the lower cabinets. They are really bad because my children can easily reach them. Anyone with small children know what that means.