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Kitchen Drawers #7 & #8

I don't know what to call this drawer... but it has foil, wax paper, baggies, etc. Not alot to do here- removed a couple qt. sized bags I kept, that had been used but probably with granola or something that I figured I would use again and I've forgotten, so now they just look dusty and when am I really going to wash them out and use them anyway?
A couple bag closing things that I won't use, a tortilla chip and the bag that holds the paper bags... not needed.
The "tupperware" drawer. I have 1 lonely piece of genuine tupperware. The rest are ziplock containers. I get rid of anything right away if it breaks, so nothing do to here.

Kitchen Drawer #6

The bib/wash cloth drawer. Spacific wash cloths- only for little hands and faces, nothing else. Because I am OCD with wash cloths. There are bath wash cloths- only used when bathing. Cleaning, only used on floor/toilet, etc. Dish clothes, only used for dishes and then these- only used for little people.
I have made bibs for the kids and so there is a pile of girl bibs and a pile of boy bibs. This drawer didn't loose anything and took 30 seconds to refold 2 bibs.

Kitchen Drawer #5

The towel/oven mitt drawer.

This one is not that hard. I'm going for simple here... so let's see.

Put the apron in the "rarely used drawer"...


Got rid of 4 Ikea dish towels that are very cute, but leave fuzzies on glasses if you use them to dry and really don't soak up enough for a hand towel... and then a cute snowman towel that I pull out at Christmas time. Do I really need a towel I only use 1 month out of the year? No. And a nasty pillow case. Weird, one may think. Unless they have a 12 and 13 year old boy folding laundry. Then, it's quite normal. It gets trashed.

Kitchen drawer #3

So, I open the bottom drawer... my "rarely used utensil" drawer... and I see the steak knives our friends got us last year, because we kept having them over for BBQ and pulling out little paring knives. :-) Maybe I should take them out of the package.
Well, to do that, I need to clean out the eating utensil drawer, because that is where I want them.

Lets see... nut crackers... which I have never used, but you know as soon as I get rid of them someone will give us a bag of nuts, or I'll want to start eating apricot nuts... or something like that, I think I heard they were good for you... I'll put those in the "rarely used" drawer.

A couple paint brushes. I don't remember, but yes, I used them in cooking something.

I opened the knives... and then cut myself. Dork.

I don't think I need to keep washing plastic silverware. Again- Dork.


I had to pull the eating utensil drawer completely out, because it's broken. I decided to put the dry dishes away, well, the silverware and filled the drawer back up. Then, since it was out, I decided to try and fix it. Yes, it was that easy. I don't know why I'm so lazy as to not even look and see how the drawer broke. That look all of 1 minute to get a screwdriver and screw it in again, and Da-Dah! Now I have a working drawer. Whew! Glad that's over.














I didn't toss anything out of the rarely used drawer, I do use my cherry pitter, meat mallet and skewers... and yes, someday, the nut crackers. But hey, at least the steak knives are ready for our next BBQ!!

Next Drawer- Kitchen

OK, next drawer down. This is my large cooking utensil drawer.
I took out some rarely used items- the potato masher and pasta spoon. I put them in the "rarely used" drawer on the bottom. I took out my canning funnel and put it with the canning stuff and same with the extra canning jar lids I had in there.
I got rid of a serving spatula.

2010 in 2010... the Beginning!

I talked about this here and you can also download the chart here.

I went into the kitchen today and looked in my drawers.
Drawer #1: Small cooking utensils.

This isn't a bad drawer, because it's one of my main ones and I can't stand fighting to find the things I need.

I removed 2 basting brushing... I left 2, one silicone one for basting/brushing oil on pans and one natural one for cleaning my grain grinder. I moved a serving spatula down a drawer.