I know I can become a little more motivated if I promise myself a reward when I’ve finished all of my decluttering tasks! You can use the “Notes” section of the decluttering calendar to decide what your reward will be. It was easy to move out of the way if I needed to, and it also looked really cute! 5. I kept a cart like this one in our townhouse kitchen before we renovated it so I had more room to store items that I needed to have on hand. I’m planning on tackling that next month, so stay tuned!)Īnother option for creating more storage would be to bring in a rolling cart. (You may have to do some decluttering in your kitchen to manage this. If you don’t have a coat closet to spare, simply cleaning out a cabinet to act as secondary storage for pantry items could do the trick. Our townhouse’s tiny pantry-turned-mini mudroom I really like to use risers in a pantry because they can store a bunch of items in one spot while allowing you to see everything you have at once! (I have these risers.) Once you’ve gotten rid of everything in the category that doesn’t need to be in your pantry anymore, return the remaining items to the pantry in a way that makes them easily accessible and organized. Then you can list them in Facebook groups or on Craigslist or drop them off at your local donation center all at once at the end of the month.) 3. (The pantry doesn’t strike me as an area where you would come up with a lot of items to donate or sell, but if you are finding that you have a lot of those things, it helps to create a designated area where you can collect them all in one place. Pantries tend to collect a bunch of extra items because we just shove stuff in there and forget about it! Stale chips? Sprinkles you’ve had for years but never used? Crushed boxes of cereal that are pretty much dust at this point? All of those things can go, either to be recycled if they fall into that category or trashed if they don’t.Īs you go through each category, try to be as ruthless as possible! The less stuff you have, the easier it will be to organize your pantry and keep it that way, so if there is something in there that is no longer useable or you don’t love it/use it often, send it on its way! This allows me to see if I have any duplicates, anything that is expired, anything I don’t need anymore, etc. So for example, if we were decluttering spices, I would take out every jar, container, or packet that held any type of spices and put them all on my kitchen island. Items removed from the pantry and ready for decluttering! You can feel free to follow it exactly, tweak it to fit your liking, or completely disregard it and use your own strategy! I thought I would lay out the process I like to use when decluttering the pantry. For more information, see my disclosures here. The calendar is meant to get you started down the right path and give reminders of what to do next it doesn’t have to be a hard and fast rule. If you find yourself with extra time one day and know you’ll be busy in future days, you can definitely do 2 or more of the tasks on one day, check them off, and then pick up again after your busy days have passed. Feel free to just use this calendar as a guide.The July calendar runs from day 1-31, but I didn’t include a line that says “Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc.” on purpose so that the calendar could be used for any year (or any month, for that matter)! I intentionally didn’t put specific days of the week on the calendar.That way if you get busy and miss a day or you have a lot of a particular item and it ends up taking a little longer than you expected, you have a built in day to catch up and won’t fall behind. I know life can get busy and schedules fill up, so by assigning a task only every other day, you essentially have two days to complete each one. There is a simple task to complete every other day.
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