Last week I decided to tackle another “Declutter” project. I have already shared my Declutter the Desk project and my Pantry Organization.
Now it was time to tackle the kitchen corner cabinet – do you have one of those? It is amazing how much stuff you can fit into one!
When you open the cabinet door and look in – it really doesn’t look that bad, does it? Not totally organized but nothing falls out on you!
Well, I started pulling things out and I felt like I was reaching into Mary Poppin’s carpet bag – things just kept coming and coming and coming! I ended up with this pile on my counter.
Yikes! Yes – all of that came out of that small corner cabinet.
An assortment of all kinds of different rubber/plastic containers. I think there was about 5-6 lids for every one storage container – what happened to all the bottoms???
I decided to get rid of all the storage containers I had – yes, all of them and start over. I made a donation to Goodwill and bought a new box of disposable storage containers from Ziploc – love those things. I also found a really cool food storage container organizer at The Container Store. It wouldn’t fit in my corner cabinet so I had to clean out one of the bottom cabinets for it to fit into. I love it!
My corner cabinet now looks like this….
It is now the perfect home for my food processor, and a few other kitchen tools I use all the time. Now really – how many storage containers does one person need? Have you counted how many you have recently?
What declutter project have you tackled lately? I am onto my master bedroom and what lurks under the bed!! Scary!
I had a similar experience recently with my childrens’ toys. I saw these great 5litre plastic containers that were really cheap and immediately grabbed some for a tidy-up during the school holidays.
It gives me such a feeling of achievement to look across from my desk and see them neatly filled, labelled and stacked on the bookshelf. Plus it gave me something new to post about.
~Now I just need to find somewhere new for the books!
. . . or is it a marble counter top?
I, too, am thrilled with the new Ziploc storage containers!
Beautiful granite counter tops in the picture!
Beautiful job, the container you purchased is brilliant!!
Thanks for the inspiration… I was looking for a small project my youngest and I could do this morning… Off we go to declutter the container cabinet… By the way, if you watch Costco you can get the ziploc containers in a value pack!!
You are definitely inspiring to me! I just did this last week! Maybe now I will move on to my bedroom, yikes!
LOVE, love, love the new look!
I’ve just this week been thinking I need to RE-declutter that darn corner cabinet! I did it last summer and I swear the stuff in there propagates overnight! I’ll do it sometime this week and post it on MY blog! Thanks for the inspiration!
I have at least 4 corner cabinets and I hate them with a passion. They are always such a mess even though I try to keep them organized. It is difficult to get down and pull stuff out to even clean it out. I’d love to see how people organize these corner cabinets. In my opinion, they are a nuisance. It is difficult to organize them I think. I would love to see some ideas shown on Pinterest how people have organized them. We are the third owners of this house and the best we can guess is that the kitchen was renovated 10 years before we moved here and we’ve been here 9 years..We did replace the laminate, badly stained pink countertop with a nice Quartz countertop and replaced white with flowers tiles with all white subway tiles..The quartz countertop was expensive so we went cheap and simple on the wall tiles and I wished I had done it in a nice light color that would have coordinated with the quartz countertop..Pull out pantry shelves are nice but I don’t think they hold that much and it is hard to organize them by categories.
I am anxious to see how your organized your corner cabinets..will you post a before/after photo?