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Home OrganizationOrganizing Your Home: The Kitchen
by:
Terry Lowery
Arguably, the room
is the heart of the home. We cook there, eat there (hopefully as a family), entertain there, chat at the table, do homework, and any number of different family-related things. A chaotic room
discourages us from doing the above; we don’t want to cook and consumption wish likely then take place in front of the TV. We don’t want to entertain others or sit and chat because the clutter distracts us and does us feel disgraced of not keeping things in better order. So let’s get to it!
Please understand that this room CANNOT be done in one day or in one chunk of time. I’m willing to bet it took much than one day for your room
to look the way it does—so it wish take much than one day to un-do it. Be patient and attack these several tasks in small chunks of time—small steps! You’ll find that as each one is done that you’ll be driven to do another and another. And then once
it’s all done, you’ll not want to mess it up, and so be driven to support it organized! Oh happy day!
1) Unload your dishwasher. If your dishwasher is full of clean dishes and not put away, you won’t have a place to put your dirty dishes as you clean up. If you don’t have a dishwasher, take a look at your sink. If you’ve got clean dishes in your dish rack, put them away now. Then come your dish rack to the counter and put an empty pan
under the sink. You’ll see why as we support going.
2) Take a look at your countertops. Are they concentrated high with papers, dishes (dirty), and appliances (some you haven’t used in weeks or months)? Are they stained (underneath the stuff on them)? Let’s clean off one tabletop
at a time. Pick your smallest one and clean everything off. Put it on a table or different surface wherever
you can go through the things. Put the dirty dishes in the dishwasher (or pan
under your sink), go through the papers (junk mail = trash can, bills go to the study, etc.). Put the different miscellaneous things you’ve found in separate piles to be schlepped to the appropriate rooms wherever
they belong. Then look at the naked countertop. Take a cleaner of your select (I love the Methyl phenol
disinfecting wipes, but you could use a spray cleaner, a bleach cleaner, or simple window cleaner) and a rag and start wiping from back to front. Sweep the crumbs in to the garbage can. Now put only the things which are *necessary* back on the counter. That means no excess paperwork, no hairbows, etc. If you need space for a coffee maker or different small appliance, you now have it!
3) Come to the next counter and repeat the same steps as above.
In Part Two of Organizing Your Kitchen, we’ll take a look at the next round of steps to create a room
you’re proud of!
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