Decluttering Kitchen Items {NetZero Decluttering Challenge 2018}

Do you feel overwhelmed during the month of December with all the stuff that enters your home? It makes it hard to enjoy this festive time of year.

I've found that when I declutter throughout the month it really helps me feel less overwhelmed.  Will you join me in the Net Zero Decluttering Challenge this year?

I'm so impressed with stories of what you've been decluttering already this month! Let's keep it going this week.

Today I'm sharing tips for decluttering your kitchen items!

Week 2 - Kitchens {Net Zero Clutter Challenge 2017}

It's "Kitchens" week in the Net Zero Clutter challenge! Ready to tackle your kitchen this week so you aren't as overwhelmed when you're doing your holiday baking or entertaining? Or just so you can prepare meals easily during a busy month?

December can feel so overwhelming... there are so many extra tasks to do, places to go, and people to see.  But more than demands on our time, are the demands on our space. If we're entertaining during the holidays, we suddenly become much more aware of the clutter in our homes. And just the thought of how many new items will be entering our homes this month is overwhelming! All of these factors make it hard to enjoy this otherwise wonderful time of year.

There are lots of tips out there for managing your time better during the holidays, but I've found that the single most important thing I can do to help me feel less overwhelmed in December is to declutter throughout the month.  And reducing that overwhelm means I can enjoy Christmas much more.

This week I'm sharing tips to help you declutter your kitchens. Feel free to declutter anything you want though! Whatever will help you achieve your goal :)

Top Posts of 2016 - To Help You Declutter in 2017!

I know I'm a little late posting the top posts of 2016, but better late than never right?!

If you want to get organized this year and you aren't sure where to get started, these posts are a great starting point!

I'm going to share the top 5 posts that were published last year as well as the top 5 older posts that were still popular.  There's a bit of a pattern... can you find it?

Week 3 - Kitchen Items {Net Zero Clutter Challenge 2016}

Do you feel overwhelmed during the month of December with all the stuff that enters your home? It makes it hard to enjoy this festive time of year.

Kitchens can also feel really cluttered when we're spending so much time with holiday baking, entertaining, and preparing holiday meals.

I've found that when I declutter throughout the month it really helps me feel less overwhelmed and I can enjoy Christmas much more.  Will you join me in the Net Zero Decluttering Challenge this year?

Each week I'll share decluttering tips and ideas to help you declutter a different area of your home.  If you do that, you can end the month with the same number of items in your home (or maybe even less!) than what you started the month with.

This week I'm sharing tips for decluttering your kitchen.

Small Appliances With Multiple Purposes: How To Make Your Kitchen Feel Bigger!

Last fall I shared a post called How To Make Your Kitchen Feel Bigger - Use Items With Multiple Purposes.  I shared several items that you could use in different ways, rather than having a kitchen cluttered with items that can only do one thing.

Today I want to continue with the idea of items having multiple purposes.  This is my number one tip for making your kitchen feel bigger!  And I've got a small kitchen... so this tip really works!

Day 19 - Kitchen Counters {Net Zero Decluttering Challenge}

Have you ever felt overwhelmed during the month of December with all the stuff that enters your home? The trick I've found helps me is to declutter throughout the month. Will you join me in the Net Zero Decluttering Challenge?

Each day this month I'll share some decluttering tips and ideas so you can end the month with the same number of items in your home (or maybe even less!) than what you started the month with.

Today I'm sharing tips on decluttering your kitchen counters.

Day 16 - Pantry {Net Zero Decluttering Challenge}

Have you ever felt overwhelmed during the month of December with all the stuff that enters your home? The trick I've found helps me is to declutter throughout the month. Will you join me in the Net Zero Decluttering Challenge?

Each day this month I'll share some decluttering tips and ideas so you can end the month with the same number of items in your home (or maybe even less!) than what you started the month with.

Today I'm sharing tips on decluttering your pantry (or whatever cupboards you keep your food in).

Day 15 - Freezer {Net Zero Decluttering Challenge}

Have you ever felt overwhelmed during the month of December with all the stuff that enters your home? The trick I've found helps me is to declutter throughout the month. Will you join me in the Net Zero Decluttering Challenge?

Each day this month I'll share some decluttering tips and ideas so you can end the month with the same number of items in your home (or maybe even less!) than what you started the month with.

Today I'm sharing tips on decluttering your freezer (either the one above/below/beside your fridge or a chest freezer or an upright freezer or all of the above!).

Day 14 - Refrigerator {Net Zero Decluttering Challenge}

Have you ever felt overwhelmed during the month of December with all the stuff that enters your home? The trick I've found helps me is to declutter throughout the month. Will you join me in the Net Zero Decluttering Challenge?

Each day this month I'll share some decluttering tips and ideas so you can end the month with the same number of items in your home (or maybe even less!) than what you started the month with.

Today I'm sharing tips on decluttering your fridge.

Day 5 - Baking Equipment {Net Zero Decluttering Challenge}

Have you ever felt overwhelmed during the month of December with all the stuff that enters your home? The trick I've found helps me is to declutter throughout the month. Will you join me in the Net Zero Decluttering Challenge?

Each day this month I'll share some decluttering tips and ideas so you can end the month with the same number of items in your home (or maybe even less!) than what you started the month with.

Today I'm sharing tips on decluttering your baking equipment.

Day 4 - Baking Ingredients {Net Zero Decluttering Challenge}

Have you ever felt overwhelmed during the month of December with all the stuff that enters your home? The trick I've found helps me is to declutter throughout the month. Will you join me in the Net Zero Decluttering Challenge?

Each day this month I'll share some decluttering tips and ideas so you can end the month with the same number of items in your home (or maybe even less!) than what you started the month with.

Today I'm sharing tips on decluttering your baking ingredients.

Get All Your Papers Organized In One Weekend {Review}

Are you overwhelmed with all the paper in your home?  Think you don't have time to deal with it? Or don't know where to start?

You are not alone!  Paper enters our house ALL. THE. TIME.  And without a good system in place to deal with it, it can take over our homes.

How to Make Your Kitchen Feel Bigger - Use Items With Multiple Purposes

Do you have enough cabinets in your kitchen?  Do you get frustrated when you can't squeeze enough into your cupboards?  Do you struggle to get something out from the back of a cabinet because it's just too crammed full of stuff?

Kitchens are the hub of our homes.  We need them to function well.  But they are often one of the most cluttered rooms in our house!  No matter what size kitchen you have, it always feels too small.

But it doesn't have to be this way!  Today I want to share a way that you can make more space in your kitchen cabinets, so your kitchen won't feel as small.  You can do this by using items that have multiple purposes.

Pantry Organizing {Video} Tips

Do you find it difficult to keep your pantry organized?  Today I've got two tips to help you organize your baking ingredients and your kids' snacks.  You can apply these tips to other areas of your pantry too.

Plus, for those of you who have wondered what my voice sounds like, you'll get to find out because these tips are shared on video!

Top 10 Posts of 2014!

It's always fun to look back on a year and remember what happened.  We write a family letter in our Christmas cards and each one of us shares what our favourite memories are.  It's a great opportunity to be grateful and to end the year on a positive note.  This year, both my son and daughter's favourite moments were their birthdays (always a highlight), and our family trip to Disney World.  It was a trip we'd been waiting a long time to take, and we really enjoyed our time together.  I'm really glad it was such a highlight for them.  It was for me too :)

I also had fun looking back on the year on the blog!  When I write posts, I never really know what will resonate with you and motivate you to organize.  I'm delightfully surprised a lot of times at the feedback and response I get to certain topics.  So it's fun to look back at the most popular posts of the year!

I'd planned to write this post last week, but I my bronchitis had other ideas of how I should be spending my time.  Better late than never right?!

Day 9 - Making Room for the New {12 Days of Being Organized for the Holidays}

Do you ever feel overwhelmed when you think about all the new "stuff" that will be entering your home during the holidays?  Those with kids are often especially overwhelmed.  New toys, clothes, books, and games from generous grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends.  Not to mention your own gifts to your children, and of course those from the jolly red-dressed guy!

If you already feel like your home is cluttered, the thought of adding more to your home can be stifling.  But it doesn't have to be that way!

Today I'm sharing a few tips to help simplify your holidays by decluttering.  {It just wouldn't be a series on organizing if I didn't discuss decluttering right?!}

Day 24 - Kitchen Organizers {31 Cheap & Easy DIY Organizers}

Think you have to spend a lot of money on costly organizing tools to get your house in order?  Nope!  Getting organized doesn't have to be expensive!

Throughout this series I'm sharing ideas to help you organize your home by either

• making simple organizers with things that don't cost very much OR
• using items you already have in a different way.

If cost has been holding you back from getting organized, now you've got no more excuses!  

Today I'm sharing cheap and easy DIY organizers for your kitchen.  The kitchen is the hub of your home and it works hard for you.  So it's important to keep it organized.  There are lots of kitchen organizers you can purchase to help you with this, but here are a few DIY ideas to save you some money.

This post has been moved to my business website's blog: https://fromoverwhelmedtoorganized.com/day-24-kitchen-organizers-31-cheap-easy-diy-organizers/. 

Please check it out there. 

Happy organizing!

Day 14 - Under the Sink {31 Cheap & Easy DIY Organizers}

Think you have to spend a lot of money on costly organizing tools to get your house in order?  Nope!  Getting organized doesn't have to be expensive!

Throughout this series I'm sharing ideas to help you organize your home by either

• making simple organizers with things that don't cost very much OR
• using items you already have in a different way.

If cost has been holding you back from getting organized, now you've got no more excuses!  

Today I want to share cheap and easy DIY ideas for organizing the black hole under your sink.  Things can get piled and shoved back and buried in the cabinet under the sink and the whole area becomes overwhelming.  And that includes both bathroom and kitchen sinks.

Check out these great ideas to help you keep your under-the-sink cabinets organized!

This post has been moved to my business website's blog: https://fromoverwhelmedtoorganized.com/day-14-under-the-sink-31-cheap-easy-diy-organizers/. 

Please check it out there. 

Happy organizing!

Day 12 - Recipes and Menu Plans {31 Cheap & Easy DIY Organizers}

Think you have to spend a lot of money on costly organizing tools to get your house in order?  Nope!  Getting organized doesn't have to be expensive!

Throughout this series I'm sharing ideas to help you organize your home by either

• making simple organizers with things that don't cost very much OR
• using items you already have in a different way.

If cost has been holding you back from getting organized, now you've got no more excuses!  

Today I want to talk about recipe organizers and menu planning organizers.  The cheap and easy DIY kinds.  A lot of people plan their weekly menu on Sundays so I thought this was the perfect day to look at ways to organize recipes and menu plans.  Here are a few of my favourite DIY ideas!

This post has been moved to my business website's blog: https://fromoverwhelmedtoorganized.com/day-12-recipes-and-menu-plans-31-cheap-easy-diy-organizers/. 

Please check it out there. 

Happy organizing!

Kitchen Organizing Tips: Tying it all Together!

This is the final post in the kitchen organizing tips series!  For those of you who follow my blog regularly, it probably felt like this series would never end.  I started it back in November... put it on hold... twice... and here I am nearly 6 months later... finally wrapping it up.  Thank you so much for hanging in there with me!

I have one final tip for you today and I'll show the whole kitchen and how it fits together (since most of the posts just showed small areas).