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How to Organize a Small Kitchen for Maximum Storage

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I have been working hard to organize my small kitchen this week. Besides the mini-makeover mentioned in a previous post, I have been scouring through the cupboards trying to rethink how I use my kitchen. I started doing some of this thinking a few years ago, but it never hurts to revisit your household systems. Here is how I organized my small kitchen to maximize storage. Under the Sink Basically, there was too much stuff in here. I needed to clean out unused items like broken spray … [Read more...] about How to Organize a Small Kitchen for Maximum Storage

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Easy Mini Kitchen Makeover

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Recently I started noticing how junky my kitchen was. Piles grow and sit on the counter until I become so used to seeing them, they just blend into the background. Some stuff has been around for years and has become worn out and sad looking. The drawer I’m used to rummaging around in has all kinds of junk I never use. How about the empty wall in the corner that I never got around to decorating? Yup, total blindness to what it really looks like. Time to eliminate the piles, worn out … [Read more...] about Easy Mini Kitchen Makeover

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How to Get Your Meal Prep System Together

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Let’s dive into creating a Household System for something that happens on a daily basis: meal preparation. How does meal preparation lend itself to a system? How could it be streamlined and systematized for maximum efficiency? Think about making a process map for how you go about preparing meals.  A process map is simply a list of all the steps you take when you are doing a task.  If you can describe what happens step-by-step, then you can figure out where things bottle-neck or … [Read more...] about How to Get Your Meal Prep System Together

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The Declutter Diaries: Day 77

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The Declutter Diaries is a series of posts I did for a former blog as a glimpse inside a real decluttering project [with occasional editorial comments from my present self].  You can start with Day One here. Read Day 65? [Note: things are rather sporadic at this point.  The last post was probably somewhere around Day 65.] Okay, I Confess I have totally fallen off the blogging wagon.  I have still been doing a little decluttering, but have spent most of my time these last two weeks … [Read more...] about The Declutter Diaries: Day 77

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The Declutter Diaries: Day What?

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The Declutter Diaries is a series of posts I did for a former blog as a glimpse inside a real decluttering project [with occasional editorial comments from my present self].  You can start with Day One here. Read Day 55 [Note: things are rather sporadic at this point.  The last post was at Day 55.  This post is probably somewhere around Day 65.] It All Started When the Dishwasher Died… Our house is fairly old and has multiple layers of flooring in the kitchen.  So when the dishwasher … [Read more...] about The Declutter Diaries: Day What?

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The Declutter Diaries: Day 23

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The Declutter Diaries is a series of posts I did for a former blog as a glimpse inside a real decluttering project [with occasional editorial comments from my present self].  You can start with Day One here. Read Day 22 Emergency Cleaning Mode Today was my daughter’s birthday.  Because we had guests coming over, I was once again forced to work in my kitchen.  [Ha!  Love this choice of word: "forced."  Yes, when we don't keep up with the cleaning and organizing, sometimes we are "forced" … [Read more...] about The Declutter Diaries: Day 23

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