Organization Post

Ok. I confess......this project has been calling to me for a while now. I just had to make a decision on what to do. It's my Tupperware cupboard. You got one? Do you hate it as much as I did mine? Is it a dirty little secret that you just close the door on...heehee.... This has come to my attention over the past year as we have trained the children to now load and put away the dishwasher. Don't get me wrong.....they do an awesome job... thank you my little helpers!! But the Tupperware area is just always a mess. Miss matched stacks of all different containers that I've amassed over the years. AMASSED is not too strong a word here.... I have way more than one family should ever own.....what's wrong with me anyway?!? Some of them no longer have lids.....so why do I keep them? Breath deep here....it's really ok to let things go, isn't it?! Some of them are so stained that I don't use them yet I'll still throw them back in there toward the reject stack that lives in the back....way in the back where it's really, really dark- heck I think they must secretly be back there multiplying...yes that's got to be it...couldn't be me!!! :) Every thing does fit if you stack things just so and know "my" system for it. The kids just don't see the way my brain works on this and neither does dear Dad, sorry guys. We all hate the cupboard! So today I made the decision. Out it all goes. What is good is going to Goodwill to bless another family. The dead items get a proper burial :) The only items I am keeping is some larger containers that I use only a few times a year to store cookies and other goodies in. The rest is being replaced with Glad (or whatever brand I finally decide on) storage plastic containers. I have a few of these and they are pretty nice AND inexpensive. They stack neatly and I promise myself to just throw them out when they get too stained or beyond any real use. Lids and bases will always match....this will simplify things so much that I'm almost giddy over it!! I cook differently now than I did years ago and honestly try to use most my leftovers so I don't need a hundred different things to store in anymore! Neat ....calming.....soothing.....and it won't cost an arm and leg or my firstborn child......this was sort of my little gift to myself and my helpers....I have reclaimed the TIME we lost to this area....I wonder where else we waste time (and lose peace) around the house....HAHA I don't wonder, I already know and may address those areas later :) I am being led to simplify in a lot of different areas in my life.....this is a good thing ;)