This was supposed to be my Tackle It Tuesday post. I gave myself 10 minutes to get this done, but then the phone rang twice, and my daughter walked in with a kooshball pencil topper stuck in her hair. Really stuck. As in, it looked like I just might have to cut it out. But I didn’t.
Anyway, it’s now Thursday and I’m posting this. Even though it isn’t Tuesday, I’m glad to have finished this task since this cabinet was driving me crazy.
It’s amazing how when you start having all of your dishes clean almost all of the time, your cabinets seem smaller. Before, we would have a few cups in the cabinet, but most were in the dishwasher (clean or dirty) or in the sink, or scattered throughout the house.
The other part of this problem is my couponing obsession. You know, if you coupon, that medicines are one of the things to stock up on. So I do. And I stick them in the cabinet until it’s one huge mess and there’s no room for anything.
Here’s what the cabinet looked like before:
Here are all of the things I threw away. Some are expired items, and some things are trash, but most are things I consolidated. You can put a lot more in a box than the manufacturer does. When I got a great deal on ibuprofen once, I bought five bottles, but was able to consolidate them into two bottles after removing the big cotton ball.
Here’s the after picture. I know that it would be nice for the glasses and cups to be arranged more artfully, but I’m glad to have gotten this much accomplished in the few minutes I allowed for this task.
I am constantly amazed at how much of an impact I can make in just a small amount of time. Now, if I will just do this to every drawer, closet, cabinet in the house, I’ll be in great shape!
