I started in my kitchen this week. Whenever I'm doing any kind of cleaning or purging, the kitchen is usually the first place I start. I believe that the kitchen is the heart of any house and I want mine to be in good order. That isn't always the case, but I do try. There's almost nothing worse to me, at least in domestic life, than waking up and making coffee in a messy kitchen. It happens, but I despise it!!
Anyway, I started my "One Drawer at a Time" process in the kitchen. And that's what I did. One drawer and only one drawer, which is the purpose of this process. And I will say it was a success. It was a small drawer, but one that I utilize a good deal. I was able to throw away over half of the stuff in the drawer, get a few things ready to donate and then organized the rest of it.
Growing up, Grandmother had a drawer in her kitchen where she saved twist ties from loaves of bread. As a child, I thought this drawer was fascinating because it was so colorful with all of the different twist ties in it. I decided that I should do the same thing and that is the drawer that I cleaned out first. I realized, when I was taking all of those twist ties out, that I never saw Grandmother actually do anything with those twist ties. I'm sure they were used on plastic bags that didn't have any kind of closures on them. You don't really see that in plastic bags anymore these days. So, those got tossed and I didn't regret it for a moment. It won't make the memory any less fun for me by not having a drawer full of twist ties on my own.
So, that drawer is done and still looks pretty good. I'll find another one to work on this weekend and keep this process going! Good times :)
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