How to Declutter and Organize Your Kitchen

Your kitchen is the central point of your home where everyone passes through numerous times every day, generally leaving behind a lot of mess. It is also the place where your family talks, prepare and consume meals. If you are also like most of us, you have an excess of stale spices, expired condiments, coffee mugs, too many cleaning essentials and more. According to the research messed up spaces can create tension, encourage you to overeat and buy impulsively. Here are some tips that can help you to declutter and organize your kitchen.

Make a plan before starting

It might be fascinating to start searching through cabinets and drawers for looking things you don’t use but you will probably give up after some time as you will get tired or end up piling objects that have nowhere to go. So for this, you should first start by getting some garbage bags and boxes ready. Tag the bags and boxes with items to pack, donate and throw away. Secondly, create sections for cooking, baking, cleaning and prepping. Then, decide the things you need for each section.

Cleaning up Drawers

Check out your kitchen and think about the things you use the most and in which drawer they are kept. How far your silverware is kept from your dishwasher or sink? Do you have to always bend down to take out things that you can store in the top drawer? This is the time when you can swap the things in your kitchen to make it look more efficient.

One of the most effective ways of organizing your drawers is using a drawer organizer. If you don’t have one, you can shop for drawer organizers at Indian online shopping sites.

Cleaning up Cabinets

set of plates, cups, knives, forks and wine glasses on the shelf in the kitchen cabinet
Handle your cabinets in the same way you did your drawers. Again, check out the things you use every day and their closeness to your work area, sink and dishwasher. If it is difficult for you to reach the dishes you use every day, place them in the drawer or cabinet which is easily accessible. Talking about under the sink, take everything below the sink out and throw away the extra cleaning supplies which you haven’t used for years.

Reusable Plastic Bags and Containers

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Even when we use reusable bags for groceries, we still end up using plastic bags. If your reusable shopping bags are in a mixed-up state then this is the time when you should check them and throw away the old or ripped ones. The bags which are in good condition fold them all and keep them inside the unfolded one so that you can easily use them when required. You can easily hang this bag on the hook inside the cupboard or at the backside of the door.

Kitchen Appliances

Examine your kitchen appliances and see, when was the last time you have used your appliances? Also, check for the duplicate appliances. If you have bought a new mixer grinder, sandwich maker or any other appliance and still keeping the old one, then it is the time to eliminate the old one. Only keep those appliances on the countertops that are used on a daily basis.

Reusable Water and Coffee Bottles

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If you have a huge collection of plastic or stainless steel bottles and mugs. It’s time to eliminate them. Keep only the ones you use and eliminate all the old ones. These items can occupy a lot of space on your shelf.

Like you can see the project may be a bit difficult to deal with depending on how messy the kitchen is. One way is to get some help from your family members. Just make sure that whoever is helping you in the task is actually helping and not ruining your efforts. Play some good songs and tunes while working.