Month: May 2019

May Organizing Project Update

My May organizing project isn’t going as quickly as I had hoped. I’ve made some progress but it has been very slow. My lunch prep boxes are on a shelf I can reach without a step stool and the pantry staples are organized. It’s small progress but it’s progress!

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I moved the canned goods from the upper corner cabinet to the pantry closet. I put the grab and go snacks in bins in the corner cabinet. So far this is working for everyone.

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The lower cabinets have gotten a little worse as I was grouping like items together, especially this one. I may have started cleaning and organizing this area when something leaked but it has a long way to go.

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Looks like my May project will also be my June project. There are 3 lower cabinets I haven’t even started. A fun part of the project I’m looking forward to is making cute labels for my canister set and coffee containers.

May Organizing Project

This month I’m organizing the kitchen. I don’t enjoy cooking, it’s a necessity not a passion, but I still need the kitchen to be functional. Like a lot of spaces in our house the kitchen hasn’t been re-organized since we moved in.

When we moved in we had two kids at home and one full time job. Breakfasts, lunches and after school snacks were a priority. Now we have one kid at home and two full time jobs, the priority is to get dinner on the table as quickly as possible between work and activities  and finding what I need to make dinner. These cabinets are not working for us! Hidden in the back of the top self of the corner cabinet (top right picture) I found a can of pumpkin that expired in December 2015. Gulp! I can’t reach that shelf or really see what’s up there without  a step stool. Out of sight out of mind.

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The lower corner cabinet (lower left picture) got a quick tidy when (one of) the coconut oils (we have three) leaked. The rest of the stuff in there is a hodge podge of everything from pasta to kitchen gadgets.

The other problem I have with the kitchen is like items aren’t kept together. Snacks are in more than one place and baking items aren’t together. Other things we use daily are in inconvenient places, for example the containers for my lunches.

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They are on the very top shelf. Nope, I can’t reach them. Yes, the peanut butter is in there with the dishes not other food items.

This is my organizing project for May and probably June. Please share your kitchen organizing ideas in the comments! I need all the help I can get!