This week – the utensil drawer. This is where stuff that won’t fit in the cutlery drawer goes. And it can get rather messy!
- Lay out a towel on the kitchen floor.
- Pull all of the stuff out of the drawer and sort it into like groups (ie “cutting” “scooping” “storing” “making” “decorating”) onto the towel
- For each item, ask yourself:
- How many of these do I have?
- How often do I use it?
- If I got rid of it, would I be able to find a way to still do what I need to do if the need arose (the answer is almost always YES – there is more than one way to skin a cat, as the old saying…rather grossly…puts it)
- Will I use it again more than a couple of times a year?
- Is it still in good working order?
- Can I live without it (that’s me being facetious – unless you have a dialysis machine in there, of course can live without it).
- Does my bestie/mother/sister/neighbour have one I can borrow if I do need it again one day?
- Does it even belong in the kitchen? (there will be rubber bands, bits of broken toys, coasters, orphan bits of sets, the odd hair band, a few receipts, stamps, paper clips, bandaids or bobby pin and the like that should be re-home completely)
- Cull everything that doesn’t make the cut
- Put the rest back in the drawer in its groups. You may need to use ziplock bags to group the small stuff together, and drawer dividers to keep it all from getting too jumbled again.
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