How to De-Clutter Your Kitchen: Take it One Drawer At A Time!

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 21:51:05 GMT

De-cluttering any part of your household can be a daunting and sometimes tedious process. Our philosophy to get rid of this burden in a more healthy way is taking each part of your house “one drawer at a time.” Let’s begin with the kitchen. Start with your junk drawer. Admit it, everyone has one in their kitchen. It’s the area you throw your packs of chewing gum, post-it notes, pens, chip bag clips, old birthday candles, etc.

Before you begin dumping all of these items out on your kitchen counter, make sure to have a garbage can handy, because you know there are things in there that are going to get trashed. Once your station is ready, here’s the fun part. Dump everything out of the junk drawer! Make a mess! Once you have done this, start sorting things into piles. Put the pens with the pens, the paperclips with the paperclips, and so on and so forth. While your doing this step, you can also be simultaneously throwing out old fast food receipts, pens that don’t work, and lets be honest, you really don’t need those old birthday candles. The next recommended step is to invest in a drawer organizer, if you don’t already have one. These little puppies work wonders! When you have all of your garbage and unwanted items either trashed or in a giveaway bag, start putting your “to keep” items into corresponding compartments in your drawer organizer. Once you have successfully finished organizing and de-cluttering your junk drawer, congratulations it is time to move onto the cooking utensils!

In this process you want to continue to ask yourself these four questions;

1. “Do I need this?”

2. “Do I use this?”

3. “Do I love this?”

4. “Do I really need multiples of this object?”

This is crucial because who really needs ten spatulas or that old pasta bowl that has been sitting in the back corner of the cabinet for at least twelve years?

Throughout the rest of your kitchen de-cluttering experience, you will want to continue asking yourself these four questions. Just talk yourself through it and take it one drawer at a time!

One Drawer At A Time

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Welcome Blog

Tue, 22 Jul 2014 17:10:29 GMT

Welcome to onedraweratatime.org! We are so glad that you're here! We are excited to start working for and with you to declutter your house. Check out our facebook and twitter pages and/or come visit us at Ray's Market on Warner and Mcclintock in Tempe every Saturday from 8:00-11:30.

Sincerely,

Patti and Megan