91 Day De-Clutter Challenge - Room 1 THE KITCHEN

Hey everyone! As you know I am joining the 91 Day De-Clutter Challenge that Mary  from Mary Organizes  is hosting! You should click her name in this post and go see how beautiful her kitchen is! I absolutely LOVE the color and the white cabinets in her kitchen! As many of you may know if you follow my blog, our house is a "work in progress" so our kitchen is a bit outdated! Its okay though, I know it will be my dream kitchen soon!

 My old kitchen decor used to be tea pots, I collected many of them and I really do not have the room to display them like I did when I lived alone! So for the past 3 1/2 years they have been collecting dust way at the very top of the cabinets. I really did not like the way it looked with them way up there, so during this challenge I took them down and have listed them for sale on Craigslist. When we redo the kitchen I might add something nice back at the top but for now I like the empty "simple" look it has!

 I had this magnetic calendar hanging next to my oven, and I used to be on top of listing what we were having for dinner on it! Well it still had the month of APRIL on the top of it! I would have to say I am just a bit behind in that department! I took all the recipes off of it, and made it a "family" calendar. It now has bills due, when my son needs a lunch packed and the appointments and activities we have going on. I guess you could call it our "command center"!

So everyone has that "ONE" drawer that is plum full and never shuts all the way...Right??? Well we had a very over stuffed drawer that was full of junk, so I dumped it on the counter and sorted it all out! I was really shocked to find things that should have went in the trash still in the drawer! Then you can see on the left we have under the kitchen sink...it was just as bad as that drawer! It really looked like things were just tossed in and the door was shut! Again I emptied it out and tossed the trash, made hubby take his stuff to the garage and re-organized it! Now when I open it....I get a smile on my face knowing it is officially clean and tidy! Tune in next week to see what we did in my son's room for Room 2 of the Challenge!