As promised, here are my “after” pictures.
I can actually find stuff now and I don’t have anything from before 2007! It feels great to be able to actually locate something easily.
I didn’t show a before picture of my fridge but I did take one.
Here it is.
It’s a mess. It’s unorganized and I couldn’t find anything I was looking for and if I did it was probably way past the date on the item.
Here it is after tossing everything that was past its date or otherwise unrecognizable.
Not too shabby if I do say so myself.
Last but not least, and I didn’t take a picture so you will all just have to take my word for it, I cleaned out the Tupperware cabinet. More than any other chore in my house I have been dreading the cleaning of the plastic container cabinet. In fact I haven’t organized it since I moved to this house 4 years ago. I threw away a whole grocery bag of lids. Why only lids? Because the actual containers are buried under two feet of snow in the backyard and I couldn’t get to them. I will have to throw them out in the spring when I finally take the couch and rug to the dump.
Congratulations! Do you hire out? My goat barn needs som serious organization and the publicist is useless.
I’d love to, in the summer time when it’s a little warmer.
Hooooray! You did a GREAT JOB! Don’t you feel good about being all organized?
I do, I really do. I think I save a lot of time not looking for everything. I’m pretty sure my life in general will follow suit.
Most excellent!
Hey is that the mongo jar of peanut butter from Costco? We buy the two-pack and each one is that size.
My kids have taken at least 38% of my plastic bowls to use in the sandbox. GRRR! I have a ton of lids to purge. And because they use my bowls outside I no longer have Tupperware, I have that disposable Gladware instead.
Hey is that a bowl of avocados in the fridge there? Are we supposed to store them in the fridge? I let them sit on the counter in a bowl with tomatoes. Guacamole station, loaded and ready for service.
I love guacamole. Avocados, tomatoes, salt, freshly ground pepper and lemon juice. Is there anything better on earth?
Let’s all head over to Jen’s and have a party. I’ll bring beer, if you’ll bring the chips.
It’ll be great, too, because the kitchen’s all organized and ready for us to mess up.
Don’t forget the onion.
I always have chips on hand; I’ll see you lunchtime.
You are forgetting garlic and jalapeño pepper, that makes it awesome. Don’t forget, I have warm chick beer. June, that’s when the party is.
It is a mongo jar of Peanut Butter but it isn’t from Cosco. I got it at the grocery store, right before I found out my daughter is allergic to nuts so it will probably remain there for the next 10 years.
I’m not sure about the avocados, but I like your idea. The only problem is I have very little counter space so nothing gets left out for show.
I have been doing this with my master bedroom. Usually I start with the kids rooms and then never get to mine but this time I’m doing mine first!!! 🙂
Luckily the bedrooms are really tiny so there isn’t room to let it get out of hand. My bedroom is probably the only room in the house that doesn’t need organizing. It could use an extra 10 or 20 square feet however.
Very nicely done. That’s what I need to do with my office…well, the “after” photo. The “before” photo: It looks worse than that.
I did my office over the winter break. I have stacks of things that need to be shredded now but I can easily walk around them.
That reminds me it’s time to clean out the fridge again. I actually go through it about every two weeks. My pantry is another story and if you still have some motivation, my Tupperware/plastic container cabinet needs some serious help. hate that job. I have a bin for the lids but I swear I need to throw more than half away. Which ones? That’s the question I don’t have the energy to figure out.
Why is the plastic container cupboard so overwhelming? I see those commercials for those stackable containers that fit so nicely in the cupboards but I just KNOW that it won’t work that way if I brought them home.
Good for you! I found a box of stuffing this week that expired in 2004. We didn’t even LIVE here in 2004. Which means I BROUGHT expired food with us when we last moved.
I suck.
I have a lamb in my freezer from before 2006, that is as much as I know
about because I took it from my father’s freezer after he died. Which is not
to say that when he died the first thing I did was grab the lamb but when we
moved everything when the house sold I wasn’t going to throw it away.
Because my father kept things for decades, especially if they were frozen, I
have no idea when he purchased and it could be from the 80s for all I know.
So, yes, I brought expired food when I moved too.
I love lamb.
Just sayin’…
Okay, I am officially impressed! Lovely! I wish mine looked like that.
4 years Linda, that’s how long it took and how long it will probably be til I do it again.
You go girl! Your fridge is WHITE though inside, even in the “before” picture… I’m jealous!
That’s kinda scary!
Pasta, olives, peanut butter, green tea, filtered water, oranges, avocados and …. fake maple syrup? You can do better than that, Red.
Nice job, though. Congratulations.
I love Fake Maple Syrup, in fact I’d be hard pressed to call it Fake. It certainly doesn’t taste like Maple syrup (which I do have somewhere). I only pull it out for special occasions like when we have bacon.
Now that looks good! Will it last, I wonder?