Week 15: Organizing Closets

This week at Organizing Junkie it's closet week...yeah, I'm so not there...yet...



Week fifteen questions:
1. Will you be tackling a closet this week? If so, don’t forget to follow the PROCESS to make it quick and simple.
NO WAY! I learned that I need to do my jobs in order and the ones that come before both our closet and J's closet aren't done yet. But I might tackle some of those so that I'm closer to cleaning out the closet!

2. Did you run into any road blocks last week?
Only that I wasn't feeling well, so I was tired, so I went to bed early, so I didn't do anything.

3. Since starting this challenge can you name one habit you’ve been able to develop that has stuck?
Remembering to do a quick tidy before bed. Even though I was going to bed really early this week, our living room and dining room still look like they did before our company arrived on Saturday...little things make a big difference!

So, after weeks of seeing people successfully cleaning out their plastics cupboards and thinking, gee, I should do the same, guess what I did last night? And I did it with J running around "helping." And it only took about fifteen minutes. So even though I went to bed at 8:30, I still got something done!


To be honest, it's not all that bad...and that's because I haven't been feeling well this week, so the dishes haven't really been done since Monday. Which means most of the lunch stuff is on the counter waiting to be washed (well...it's washed now, I did it this morning before work because it was driving me NUTS).

This is what I pulled out...


And this is the after shot. I tossed anything without a lid/bottom, nine yogurt containers (I kept five. We use them, but we also go through two or three containers of yogurt a week, so it's not like if I run out it will be a long time before I can replenish my supply), three Nalgenes full of BPA (why I still have these is beyond me...they told us to stop using them when I was pregnant with J - three years ago! and they've been in this cupboard ever since), four random lids with straws, two weird ice cub trays (they make ice cubes about 1/3 of a centimetre thick), and one random, empty Nutella jar.

There will be a follow up to this for sure because half of the containers are not in the cupboard. And my fridge is empty so there are two Tupperware fridge containers that are normally in the fridge. And I'm going to pick up a couple of bins at IKEA next week for some of the lids (I love the Rubbermaid containers that snap into their lids...they're great). We use the camping egg container for hard boiled eggs...it's great because they are contained AND the fridge doesn't smell like egg sandwiches!

I hope that once I get everything put back in the cupboard I will be able to get my large pot down there too. The new stove is millimetres wider than the old one and the pot doesn't like to come out of its current home now...and I don't really want to bang up the stove every time I need the pot!

I know this is going to be a challenge to keep tidy. Mostly because a certain small person has claimed this cupboard hers.