Tile floors: Try a steam cleaner. I saw one used on a 1970s kitchen floor and it was amazing to see the dirt that came out of that floor. And the steam was gentle enough for that old floor! I researched the best floor steamers and spent quite a while on various product review sites….
Grouping Appliances We grouped all appliances together on an unused shelf unit so we could see how many appliances we own. We gathered them from the counter, closet and various cabinets. Then we rated them by how often they were used.
We cleaned out and organized the everyday drinking glasses and travel mugs/water bottles one day, and the stemware and fancy glasses in the glass-front cabinets another day. Just getting around to posting photos of the cleaned up fancy glasses cabinet.
Challenge Week 9: Appliances, big and small An organized kitchen enables easier meal preparation and clean up. We all need that!
This was a good challenge. I got it done in one afternoon. While all the glasses were in the dishwasher (the ones on the top shelf hadn’t been used in a long time and were dusty!), I cleaned the birdhouses and brass pitcher and platter above the cupboards.
Are your glasses in disarray? Do you have an unbroken matched set of glasses or are you using three glasses from one set, two from another, four from a third?
All those miscellaneous water bottles, plastic cups, and travel mugs that you’ve gathered over the years: do you need them? They take up valuable cupboard space.
Gather all water bottles and travel mugs and decide what to keep and what to get rid of. We collect a lot of freebies at events and so we have a lot of water bottles that we use once.
CHALLENGED BY THE CHALLENGE I was excited to work on the challenge for week 6 because I thought it would help me catch up on organizing from previous weeks.
The challenge for week 6 is to clean out and organize your miscellaneous food storage. That includes your pet food storage area which wasn’t included in the pantry/cupboard challenge.
