Organizing

I recently did a post about organizing your clutter and somehow my little fingers deleted it..boo! Hopefully I can recreate the magic of the post once again while keeping the mouse away from the "delete" button.

When my humble abode is cluttered, my body feels cluttered. I don't feel inspired to create things or cook a meal. I don't feel like folding laundry only to put it into a cluttered dresser and I tend to hide the clutter behind doors-out os site out of mind. Well I have decided that while attempting to simplify our life, we need to desperately de-clutter our belongings. No one needs 3 spatulas or those hand towels you never use but thought were cute. Really, you don't NEED them. So, one saturday afternoon I made it my mission to de-clutter a few of our cabinets, kitchen drawers, and pantry. Everything that I came had to go through the same application process to earn a spot in our kitchen. Do we use this at least once a month? Is it necessary in our lives? Do we already have a duplicate? And so on. After purging the failed applicants, I slightly organized the areas to be more pleasing to my eye. I would love to have some fancy matching containers, these ones from Ikea to put all our stuff in and make it look like those kitchens in the Ikea catalog but that is unrealistic with our little budget. So I did my best. Because the best blogs have pictures, I have also uploaded some pictures of my progress. Take a look and then start thinking about your drawers, closets, and cabinets that need a little tlc from you this weekend.

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