Forgetting To Declutter: Kitchen Utensils
Do you ever try to open your utensil drawer and it gets stuck halfway? Or try to find the pizza cutter to only find out that is what is jamming the drawer? Kitchen utensils can cause such a clutter problem and unfortunately it’s one of the last places we think to declutter. So how do you purge down to just the essentials?
1. Find every kitchen utensil you own. Hopefully most of them will be in the utensil drawer, but as we all know, they tend to end up in spots where we least expect them to be.
2. Ask:
- Do I use it? Is it worth keeping for the number of times I use it?
- What is it for? (Do you even know?)
- Is it a pain to use?
- Is it broken?
- Is it in good shape?
- Do I have a double of it?
- Do I need more than one of them?
3. Organize utensils by type (ex. wooden spoons with wooden spoons)
4. Find something to store your utensils in.
- Organizers can be found at a local store.
- The cardboard inside of Velveeta cheese boxes works great
- Cut off the bottom of cereal boxes as “containers”
- Use food packaging (like for meats – make sure to clean well)
- Look around the house for what you can use to separate your utensils
5. Put utensils in their proper place after using them. It is easy to just throw them in the drawer after you are done using it them. Taking the small step to put it in the right place with save you oodles of time when you have to reorganize the drawer again!
Don’t let those jammed drawers cause you stress! Declutter and purge what you do not need and only keep the essentials.
How cluttered is your kitchen utensil drawer?
