Living Large In Our Little House

My cookie sheet cab­i­net is once again in orga­nized order

Theresa: I’m still wait­ing for you to email me your snail mail address for the book you won last week. Please do it by Friday, or I will have to choose another win­ner! fivecoat@​ozarkmountains.​com

Ok, it is orga­ni­za­tion party time once again!

How did every­one do on their kitchens?

I didn’t get as far as I would have liked last week­end. It was a big­ger job than antic­i­pated, but I expect to fin­ish up this weekend.

I did get my cookie sheet cab­i­net orga­nized again and the cab­i­net above it. That cab­i­net was stuffed with old dog med­i­cines and expired canned jellies.

Thanks to the orga­ni­za­tion, I now have room to store my bak­ing ingre­di­ents, cof­fee cups so they are not in dan­ger of falling out in the other cab­i­net and the dog med­i­cines are all neatly orga­nized and up to date.

Once I get into the med­i­cine cab­i­net again, I will prob­a­bly make a shelf for the dog med­i­cines, free­ing up even more space in the kitchen.

Still to do this week­end is arrang­ing the draw­ers, pots and pans and going through the food pantry and using up any­thing not already expired.

By Sunday, I plan to move to the bed­room. This is one we’ve been need­ing to tackle for a while.

I’ll make a con­fes­sion for Dale. He is a clothes hoarder. He will not allow me to throw any­thing away or give it to char­ity, even if he can­not wear it.

I’m pretty sure he still has bell bot­tom jeans from 1979 in a bag up in the stor­age building.

Don’t ask me, I have no idea why.

At any rate, he under­stands (at least I think I’ve got­ten through to him) that we do not have room for clothes he will not or can­not wear.

On Sunday, I plan on sit­ting him down with the dresser draw­ers and going through the clos­ets. This is a good time of year to do it as I will be rotat­ing sum­mer to win­ter clothes soon and I already know what I haven’t worn this sum­mer will be going in the dona­tion bag.

As well, we have extra tow­els, blan­kets, quilts, pil­lows and other just plain junk on shelves that need a more per­ma­nent stor­age home. They will be packed away in the plas­tic stor­age bins we bought on sale sev­eral weeks ago and stored in the base­ment at the studio.

Ok, we’re doin’ it in the bedroom(s), what’s your plan there and how did you do in the kitchen? Did you find any long lost tools or 20 year old spices?