kitchen decluttering

skint_spice

if you have a teenager maybe you can hang on to it all for a few years then palm it off on them when they go to uni or move out!
I have a juicer, breadmaker and smoothy maker that never come out of the cupboard (only bought the juicer myself), need to take them to a car boot at some point.

lil_me

**sneaks in to the kitchen gadget horders corner**

House we're looking at has 8 cupboards, one I have now has 13 and a pantry all bursting with things so I must declutter, but stupidly bought myself a new hand blender last week I know I must be mad. Plastics I have dwindled down to one and a bit cupboards full but must do more. Pans sets I have 2, I must part with one.

M.E.

My kitchen is bursting. Husband loves buying kitchen gadgets. Egg boilers, pancake cookers, griddle etc. They tend to be out on the kitchen work top SO THAT THERE IS LESS SPACE FOR DUMPING OF OTHER RUBBISH!

Do you find that when you clear a space..... it gets filled with someone else's stuff?

I also cleared out "My" stuff, cleared a space and it got filled with "their" stuff. Result is the house overflows with books, papers, bits of wire, etc. Can't throw it out as it belongs to someone else. Can't clear a space as it gets filled up with moved-around rubbish.
Very disheartening.

thriftmonster

I recently took 4 laundry baskets of casserole dishes etc done to Oxfam and we haven't missed any of it. This isn't counting the stuff in the garage for parties etc!

lil_me

Other peoples stuff - I got a box for the kitchen as it becomes a dumping ground here to, mainly DP as he sees it as 'my kitchen' so doesn't have to tidy it, other peoples stuff if I find it goes in the box, when asked 'where is xxxx I left it in the kitchen?' response is 'if it was in the kitchen and doesn't belong there it'll be in the box!' got one in the sitting room too, bought the nice weaved ones from Instore for about £3 which have a lid on so doesn't look unsightly either. Probably be my best buys this year. Stopped me having to just move piles of stuff from one place to another to be able to make dinner.

sandy2_2

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

. I need each container to be able to take the contents of a box of 80 teabags or 2lb sugar or 1kg of rice - I have looked on the lakeland site but they only give the capacity in litres - does anyone know what size I should buy?

Don't know if this will help or even if it's true, but I was told that a litre weighs the same as a kilogram

Sola

There are 2 of us most of the time, sometimes 4. I have 6 saucepans, 3 frying pans, a wok, a 3-tier electric steamer, various baking trays/roasting dishes, a couple of big oblong lasagne-type ceramic dishes, 2 wide flat circular pasta bowls, various smaller serving dishes, a nest of 5 mixing bowls.

I have 2 canisters of utensils - one for wooden stuff, one for metal. 4 chopping boards. 2 knife block and a knife rack.

In 2 cupboards I have crockery, a food processor, a hand mixer, a sandwich toaster, a small fryer. In the other 2 cupboards I have food. The drawers contain teatowels, bags, foil, cutlery, baking trays etc.

On the surfaces, I have a microwave, kettle, toaster, and crockpot.

I only have a small kitchen so it's a constant struggle to find any surface larger than a foot square on which to prepare food.

northernlass_2

thanks for that reply Sola you have made my kitchen seem positively empty :T you have really cheered me up knowing im not the only one who has at least 3x what we need:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
i am now going to enter the black hole of calcutter (cupboard number 1):D

passion8

Hi northernlass

Some other posters on another thread helped me with a similar problem. I haven't fully got to grips with the kitchen clutter yet but I found some good advice on this site:

http://organizedhome.com/save-time-cut-clutter-kitchen-declutter

particularly the last paragraphs. Until I declutter the shed, I can't actually implement this method myself , but it seems a good way to start.

Best of luck and thanks to the others for their posts.

pixie1

passion8 wrote: »

Hi northernlass

Some other posters on another thread helped me with a similar problem. I haven't fully got to grips with the kitchen clutter yet but I found some good advice on this site:

http://organizedhome.com/save-time-cut-clutter-kitchen-declutter

particularly the last paragraphs. Until I declutter the shed, I can't actually implement this method myself , but it seems a good way to start.

Best of luck and thanks to the others for their posts.

I like the idea of moving everthing out of the kitchen and things only going back in as and when you use them.

De-cluttering my kitchen is defo a job i need to tackle. I have so many things i want to get rid of, those must have gadets that get used once or twice. I have a mountain on tupperware, my Hubs hates them, lids everywhere, i think this may well be my job for next weekend.

Thanks for giving me the nudge i needed

Pixie