Tessa is finishing up a few projects before baby number three makes his/her appearance in a few weeks. One of those projects was to get some of her kitchen drawers organized so she could make room for all the new baby stuff that comes with a newborn! In yesterday’s post I showed you a lazy susan that needed some attention. Well, Tessa has decided to come clean and admit that it was her cupboard.
Case in point: This is where Tessa has been storing sippy cups, bowls, plastic containers and a whole lot of other stuff for the past three years–basically things she thought would be easy for her kids to access. While I appreciated her trying to keep like items together (even her attempt to put random items in baskets to make things easier) the lazy susan was not the place to store these items.
Remember when we tackled her junk drawer? With this project, we used the same steps…
The first step was to take everything out and sort into two piles: keep and toss. We sorted her sippy cups to keep some and throw out others.
We I decided that the lazy susan was not the best place to store kids items. We found a different place to store kids items such as sippy cups and plates. Tessa is working on that now so I’ll show you our solution in another post.
But for now we needed to figure out a plan on what to store in the lazy susan. Like I showed you in yesterday’s post, I personally store all of my electronics (toaster, blender, cusinart, etc) in my lazy susan because it’s easier to take out large heavy items. Tessa actually has two lazy susans in her kitchen and had made a better choice with her storage in the other one–it was already storing her electronics. So this one was wide open to store other items. To decide, we talked about the benefits and function of a lazy susan:
- It allows you to grab heavy items without moving other items out of the way;
- It’s best to store larger items rather than smaller items;
- If you need to store smaller items then they should be contained in a basket so you avoid creating the cluster that is currently her lazy susan!
- For Tessa specifically, another consideration is that this particular cupboard is right by the sink and the access is a little awkward so it shouldn’t be items that she has to access on a regular basis.
We decided to clear out another cupboard to store the kids’ items and when clearing it out we found:
Salad bowls, large mixing bowls and good dishes–these were all items that she definitely wanted to keep but she doesn’t use them all the time–large, not needed all the time…perfect for the lazy susan!.
Ah, I can breathe now when I look at this cupboard. I think Tessa has caught the organizing bug now because wait until you see her new makeup drawer!
fabulous!!!