Is your kitchen as tidy and well-organized as this?

If your kitchen is disorganized, every meal is a struggle.

Organizing your kitchen to make it fit you (size, cooking style and personality) is much easier if you first get rid of all the stuff that really shouldn’t be there.

Yes, you need to…

Declutter the Kitchen

Check for these decluttering candidates:

Food and pantry items

• Foods you tried and didn’t like
• Foods more than a year old that you thought you might try, but never did
• Foods past their expiry date

Equipment

• Small appliances you never used, or used once and never again
• Small appliances that don’t work and probably will never be fixed
• Utensils you have multiple duplicates of that you don’t use
• Multiple sets of china or flatware - pick the ones you love the most
• Special purpose equipment you haven’t used in more than a year
• “As seen on TV” gadgets that never worked as you’d hoped
• Cookbooks and recipes you never use

Actual junk

• Empty jars and plastic tubs - keep as many as you use, and recycle the rest
• Frayed, worn and ratty towels and cloths
• Cleaning supplies which are dried up or unusable
• Cleaning supplies you never use
• Pots and pans with wobbly or broken handles, burned patches, chipped enamel

Things which don’t belong

• Stuff belonging to other people or other rooms
• Things used only at the holidays which could be stored elsewhere
• Cleaning supplies you use - but in other rooms (store them elsewhere)

If you got rid of everything which doesn’t belong in the kitchen, how much easier would it be to cook a meal, bake a cake, or simply grab a snack and relax with a friend?

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Decluttering is one of those projects which we know should be simple, but where we can get hung up on emotional attachments to things we really don’t need any more. There are a number of online resources which can help you get over those humps and really make substantial progress with your clutter-clearing.Clutter-Free Forever eBook

Clear Your Clutter, Clear Your Mind

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Declutter Your Home

Kitchen Layout and Organization

Maybe simply decluttering and organizing your kitchen is not enough. Sometimes bad kitchen layout can defeat all your attempts at organization. If that’s your problem, you can get help and information about kitchen plans and layouts and kitchen designs.