Heart of the Home: Declutter and Organize Your Kitchen and Pantry

The Weekly Tittle is an exercise designed to focus your attention on a specific space, aspect, or challenge of decluttering and organizing your home. We assign a new tittle in each webcast/podcast, then check on your progress the following week.

Reclaim the Kitchen

This week’s assignment is to address kitchen clutter using one of the approaches we’ve talked about today:

• Cultivate a new kitchen habit. Use the Tiny Habits method we’ve discussed before to pair a new habit that you wish to create with an existing successful habit. For example, after you start coffee brewing, unload and put away one rack of clean dishes from the dishwasher.
• A place for everything…just not in the kitchen! Identify an item that keeps finding its way to your kitchen, but doesn’t need to be there. Let it go if you you can, or assign it a new storage location elsewhere in the house.
• Keep only what you use and need. Scan your kitchen counters, cabinets, and drawers for a tool, appliance, or item of cookware that you haven’t used in a long time. Consider whether you have something else that could serve the same function. Can you let the unneeded item go?

For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.