50 Weeks to Organized: Week 8

I was just remarking to Matt that I don’t seem to realize how much I need organization in my life until I see the Before/After pictures side by side. Take this last challenge, for example–in my head, I was thinking that our kitchen drawers really weren’t too bad. (Well, I knew our main utensil drawer …

50 Weeks to Organized: Week 6

Ever since I knew I would be doing this challenge, I have been looking forward to being able to finally organize our pantry and food storage. Like, I’ve been literally counting down the weeks until we’d be able to afford the massive shelf it would take. (For the to-do list for organizing the pantry, go …

50 Weeks to Organized: Week 5

So this last week’s challenge was all about organizing my recipes, and although I knew I needed to go through all mine, I didn’t realize how out of control it had gotten. I mean, by the end of it, I had gotten rid of over TWENTY-FIVE cookbooks and cooking magazines. That’s just crazy. And as …

50 Weeks to Organized: Week 3

If you remember from last week’s post, this week’s challenge was all about clearing the clutter from the countertops in the kitchen. Since the kitchen is THE place to be in our apartment, it is also the place that tends to accumulate junk the quickest. A few things were immediately apparent: *I needed a place …