KITCHEN CABINETS! Organize and Declutter with Me!
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- Tackle kitchen organization and decluttering with me in this video! I organize and declutter three cabinets in our kitchen: utensils, lunch boxes, and baking sheets.
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A suggestion for your mother’s beautiful punch bowl-I have an antique punch bowl which I have used as a centerpiece during the Christmas season and filled It with gold and silver plastic ornaments and a little tinsel. It might be a wonderful way to remember your mom at Christmas time. You could also fill It with seasonal ornaments - Easter eggs, lemons, and oranges in the summer, autumn leaves in the fall, etc.
Love this idea!!!
Lovely
What a great idea !
I totally agree. We have a bunch of sentimental Christmas items from older folks and the kids and alone they look so out of place as they are all so different. Last week I decided to get a three-tiered tray and fill it up with all these knickknacks, cookie cutters included, added some greenery and it Looks stunning - suddenly I love those pieces.
The beautiful Bowl: greenery, old cookie cutters and Something sparkling and it makes a lovely meaningful centerpiece❤
I think you should make a tradition, each Christmas wear your MIL’s apron while you make your ornament cookies with the special cookie cutters, and mix them or display them in your mother’s bowl.😊
Erica, please use that apron. I’m from Sweden and have 2 old aprons from my dad’s paternal grandma Ruth who died in the nineties and I think she would be happy to see me and my kids make use of what she used and perhaps made herself.
Ok! I think I’ll repair it and use it.
You can also use the antique cookie cutter as actual ornaments on your tree 🤩
DOING THIS! Lovely idea!!
@@EricaLucasLovesWhen you said ornaments at first I thought you meant to do this too! Although making salt dough ornaments would be cute as well. You could do both. Let the kids have a small tree and make ornaments with grandmas cookie cutters for it, the put christmas ribbons between the little handle and hang them on the big family tree. If you don't use glue on them you can use them both ways over and over, as the kids get older. They can remake salt dough ornaments. Or just make them and put both on the family tree if a smaller tree is to much to manage.
Yes , you are not the only one who forgets to tell their spouse that you moved the home of something 😆💛
Maybe two springloaded bamboo dividers in your utensil drawer would help corral the items and keep them looking neater.
Came to say the same thing!
Cas from ‘Clutterbug’ put Command hooks inside her cabinet doors to hang measuring cups, spoons, etc. You could also put Command hooks inside a cabinet door near your stove for your hot pads. Some of those expandable drawer dividers from Amazon or Walmart would help to keep your cooking utensil drawer organized. 💝
That's a great idea!
I was just about to suggest this same thing for the measuring cups and spoons. I did this years ago and it has been a game changer.
I have hooks measuring stff goes on it but pot holders never go back there😂 I don't think they like their home
Game. Changer.
Appreciate how you share your thinking process out loud... totally relatable
I love the adjustable drawer dividers for taming the drawers. You still get to toss them in but they don't get jumbled.
I use my InstantPot lid when I’m using the pot to make yogurt and when I’m using it as a slow cooker. Love it!
I came here to say this. Or if I am needing to put a lid on our cast iron pan...it sorta fits.
I use the glass lid for crockpot “mode” use as well. I use my instapot as a crockpot almost more than I use it as a pressure cooker 😂
The vintage cookie cutters would be cute hanging on your Christmas tree or on garland.
As you are relocating items in your cabinets and not telling anyone, it reminds me of my mother rearranging the bedroom furniture in the middle of the night when my dad got up to use the bathroom.
That's some next level motivation:-)
😂
Ha that’s awesome!!
You just need some separators for that drawer. There’s not even a lot in there!!! You got that!
I use measuring spoons and cups way more often than chopsticks, so I might move those to back behind the silverware. Also, the nonslip material you have under your kitchen towels would be helpful in your other kitchen drawers to keep things from sliding around (the larger utensils and the silverware tray). Love it when small changes make a positive difference.
The stand you bought is really pretty! If you use it for something small, like your gnome figures in your window, you'd still be able to enjoy its beauty.
The large bowl might look nice under a potted plant if you have the right spot for it. You can still wash it and use it for an occasion if needed.
It's so nice to see you sharing the process of diving back in from where you are rather than getting discouraged. I've been watching your videos for a while and the impression I have is that you still have an awful lot of stuff. You seemed more motivated and more focussed when you were using the term 'minimal-ish'. I say that as an outsider peeking in on a small piece of your life, respectfully. Perhaps you might consider a couple of quarantine bins in a dedicated spot. Put the date on each item and check the bins regularly. This might help you to let go of some things that you think you need, but your emotional attachments may be getting in your way. It's a very common blind spot for most of us recovering 'hoarder-ish' people. I heard a quote recently that is so simple, but really struck me, "if your house is a mess, you have too much stuff". It may seem obvious to most people, but to those of us who have lived with issues involving clutter, it's something that we may need to be reminded of every so often.
Thank you so much for your inspiration.
On the top shelf where lunch boxes go, try using a basket/bin (without lid) big enough for bags and thermoses. You can use it as a drawer to pull out. It makes things easy to gwlet in and out without knocking over.
Great idea!
If u don’t want to “ruin” the vintage apron, maybe u can use part of it & frame it or use for a pillow covering? So u can enjoy & see it instead of being stored in a cabinet? Same w ur moms lovely floral bowl? Can u display it somewhere safe to enjoy it?
Love that marble plant stand!!:) if it’s not intended for outdoor use maybe u can put an indoor plant or candle or photo on it inside? Yep im with ur mom…I store some large kitch things in our oven!;) ❤great vid Erica!!
Thanks for the motivation, after 5 yrs of living together my partner still doesn’t know where stuff goes or where stuff is 😆xx
The bowl from your mom is beautiful! Maybe use on your kitchen island to put fruit in it?? Too pretty to be in the cabinet.
I have only ever known storing the baking trays in the oven. Sometimes ovens or cabinets have an extra drawer under the oven, where I have seen them stored but most people I know just keep them in. And yes, I DO forget to take them out every time :'D
I'm swedish 🇸🇪 I give you permission to throw away that old rag 😉😅
It's funny to me that something swedish would be valuable to an american, is there a story there? So curious!
I just adore you and your family. I am so sorry for your losses. Prayers for you and your family.
You are so kind.
Suggestion for your measuring cups and spoons: put command hooks inside you cabinet door near the stove or near your spice or baking area and hang them in inside of door.
Use the antique cookie cutters as ornaments or make a christmas swag with them for our kitchen. Could you display your mom"s dish in your bedroom? It might be safer there, plus you could display flowers or something in it.
Wow, this is what maintenance level, rather than project level must be like! Little time spans here and there. Will do as well!
suggestion: hang all the measuring cups and spoons on Command hooks on the inside cabinet door closest to where you bake/cook with these items.
You should use the apron since that was its destiny but if it gets ruined, then maybe may a Christmas tree ornament out of some of it. And the cookie cutters are really nice put on a ribbon or jute and hung on the Christmas tree 😊
How about a shadow box, fold the apron, put in a photo of mother in law, a quote, and some other meaningful family history story or memento
Oh, I absolutely do that to my partner all the time! I forget to tell him I relocated items just like I'd forget to remove things from the oven before preheating it.
My Girl Scouts (k-4th) just made salt dough ornaments. The Juniors made the salt dough and designed the front with found nature objects for Step 2 of the Outdoor Art Explorer badge. The Brownies and Daisies just made the ornaments for fun. They are sitting on my kitchen counter, waiting for our next meeting for them to be painted. They had to bake for 2 hours, so I brought them home to bake.
I love your mother's bowl and agree with the suggestion of using it as a centerpiece on the kitchen table, not the dining room table.
When my husband moved to KZ for work, I completely reorganized and decluttered the kitchen, including removing an upper cabinet and its contents. When he is home for the month of June, he usually asks, but this last June, I did the majority of the cooking, which I found odd as for the first 30 years of marriage, he did the majority of the cooking.
I have a utensil drawer like yours but it is more cluttered. I refuse to clean it up until I figure out a storage system because I don't like the one that worked for over 30 years. 🤷♀️
You should get some drawer dividers for your utensils.
I used my Instant Pot Lit when I used it as a slow cooker, and it’s great
The glass instapot lid is for the slow cooker function on the instapot
the glass lid is to use your IP as a slow cooker. I use mine all the time...or if I am browning meat so grease doesnt splash. I even use it when I make a pot of soup in there and it is simmering. I cant imagine NOT having one.
There is no reason you cant use the cookie cutters for food. They are aluminum, so if you have no problem using foil, this is no different. I have my grams...exact as yours and we use every single Christmas. They are so much better than the plastic ones.
You might want to keep the plastic spoons with the lunch stuff as “point of use” so that nobody forgets to grab thermos plus utensils in one go; maybe in a solo cup or extra mug?
It is so funny how similar we are with the process of decision making :) it is so much fun to watch you talk through them, and talking about your mom as well ♡ can relate, I lost my mom this year too and I think abd talk about her habits all the time!
I’m so sorry for your loss. ❤❤
We keep our oven mitts with our kitchen towels. Oh my goodness, I laughed so hard when you talked about moving stuff on your spouse. 😂 🙋♀️ I can totally relate!
Why don't you get couple of bamboo, drawer length spring loaded , drawer dividers to separate spatulas (I also have to put mIne in upside-down) from large spoons, etc.
Those Christmas cookie cutters, I inherited those from my mom. I use those to make cookies at Christmas!
My mom had those too in the late 60’s early 70’s. I wish I had kept them when she gave them to me.
If I had a glass instant pot lid, I’d use it especially when we serve soup for a crowd. The pressure lid is cumbersome to have sitting around when the food is already cooked.
I have the same type of antique cookie cutters. I tied on bakers string and we hang them on our tree at Christmas.
I use my metal cookie cutters from my mom. However, I love your idea of stringing them and putting them on your tree if I ever stop using them.
I use my metal cookie cutters from my mom. However, I love your idea of stringing them and putting them on your tree if I ever stop using them.
love your nave blue & white kitchen! I def. store my pans in my oven like your mom! i started laughing when you said about changing your cabinets & your spouse goes to open it & is like wait a second... 😂 yep im guilty of that! Sometimes it flies & other times hes like yea i cant get used to this 😅
I do this so often to him 😂
9:46 Yep! I only have 4 cabinets in my kitchen, so the sheet pans have to be stored in the oven...7 years & I STILL forget that they are in there when I turn the oven on!! 😂🔥🤦
😂😂
You could put all your baking utensils (measuring cups & spoons, flour cutter, silicone spatulas, etc.) in the same drawer. Dividers in the utensils drawer would help and the hot pads close to the stove. Finding a drawer for those oversized baking pans is brilliant! ❤
I was going to suggest drawer dividers. One space could be for the odd shaped things like measuring cups and flour cutter. Another for spatulas, another for spoons, etc.
Possible suggestion for the pedestal platter thingy.... You could bring it to a gift exchange that you might be going to over the holidays? I often use things I bought and realized I have never used (if it's pretty close to holiday time) for this purpose. There are always gift exchanges for church groups etc and lots of people would love something like that! You know, if it fits the people you are exchanging gifts with. :) lol (2 minutes later...) nevermind 😂 It looks cool on the porch!
I really like that you use the stand for a plant or something. I hope you will use the apron too. It is made to be used and used up.
You will enjoy it more if you use it, than if it is put away in a cabinet. 😊
I moved the ziplock bags to another drawer because I got those bamboo storage boxes for them. My husband found them the other day and thought we’d been out of ziplocks for over 2 months 🤣
Small short burrs are the best for decluttering
Especially when some area is bothering you
Our tiny kitchen cooking sheet solution is replacing all cooking sheets to half sheets so they fit vertically in the cabinet that has a shelf. They also fit better in the dishwasher.
Cupcake tins have a spot in the basement because we rarely use them
I love my tool turnabout for utensils.... and maybe the measuring things could go with the baking stuff if thats what you use it for? That 1 column could be a baking station.
Erica I recommend the grip drawer liner for utensil drawers and dish drawers to prevent things sliding around especially when you don’t have soft closing drawers.
instant pot lid works great for homemade yogurt. it’s delish!
If you use the paper lunch bags for crafts only, I would put them with crafts.
I would use the antique punch bowl as often as I could so it wasn't hidden away in the cabinet.
The Christmas Cookie Cutters can be used to make cinnamon/applesauce ornaments or you can put ribbon on them and hang on the cabinet knobs in the kitchen as decor or on the tree
I use my Instant Pot lid all the time! When you are done pressure cooking and just want to keep the food warm - on goes the lid! It's also a perfect fit to a stock pot that I have that doesn't have a lid!
The apron, while treasured and beautiful, was made to use..you will always have the memory of it even if it falls apart...you might make some wonderful foods while wearing it.
My instant pot only has the original locking lid but if I had the glass lid you have I’d use it to see in as a crockpot as well. I’ve started using my instant pot as a crockpot as well and keep my crockpot outside of the kitchen for space savings .
I use my glass instant pot lid when I'm making greek yogurt. Works great! Glad to see you're feeling up to videos and organizing.
We use the glass instantpot lid when re-heating. (We use the plastic lid to save leftovers in the fridge).
You could use the lunch bags to make Christmas stars with the kids
I didn’t even know the instant pot had a glass lid option!! 😂
I'm fortunate enough that I have a few drawers in my kitchen and I can separate my every day utensils (measuring spoons, scraper, peeler, meat thermometer etc) in one drawer and my not used often but need in another (potato masher, ice cream scoop, baster etc). I know I use these almost every time I cook so they are in one drawer, items not used all the time in another. I do keep some on my counter in a container that I reach for all the time and would rather not have in a drawer such as stirring spoons, ladles, wooden spoons, rubber scrapers, spatula. I know a lot of folks enjoy nothing on their counters but it didn't work for me. I don't have many since decluttering, I mean really I don't need 7 rubber scrapers on hand lol. One or two will do. Getting rid of gadgets was another helpful thing for me. All these do dads and thingamabobs that really didn't make my life any easier. If my mom and grandmother could cook without gadgets so can I :)
I repurposed a delicate white apron, hand-hemmed, stitched, laced and embroidered by an unknown ancestress, to hang in my toilet-window. It was just wide enough to fit and long enough to sew a tunnel and insert the curtain rod.
You might want to unattach the strings of your Swedish apron to repurpose it as a decorative table cloth for a centerpiece decoration thing, Maybe even using your cute little cake-stand? Or maybe your cute little owls! Swedish elves! Swedish style straw animals! Apples! And just some fir-twigs or cones!
Hi Erica. If you would like, I sew and I'd be happy to repair the apron for you. Let me know!
Thank you for another great video. My oven mitts and pot holders live inside the cabinet on the right side of my oven on command hooks and it works lovely and takes up no extra space. Happy Holidays Lucas Family 🦃
I do the same thing with mine.
Love these videos Erica. Watching you think through and talk through the new organization is so helpful. That utensil drawer could probably use a better system. When I have drawers that hold multiple items - and those items have to be placed a certain way and in a certain order - it has too much potential to get messy. Would a lazy suzy for the utensils be better???
Erica! Put the brown paper "lunch" bags with your craft stuff.
Good idea!
Erica, I got rid of my crockpot I use my instant pot! That is what the glass lid is for. I did a side-by-side comparison of the instant pot and the Insta pot was the winner.
Wow! I might try that!
My hubby gets mad when I shuffle things around. But I put it where I would use it or look for it first. And I do tell him it’s been moved but then he forgets. I swear it’s selective hearing. 😂
Regarding keeping the cookie sheets in the oven, I am in the habit that every time I use the oven (which is not that often 😂), I ALWAYS open it before I turn it on, just in case I was to have thrown something in there and forgot about it. Just a little habit to prevent a problem.
The journal book called Throw It Away by Guru Notebooks was helpful for me.
12:33 here when you were moving your light blue spatula, I found myself trying to wipe my screen of cat hair come to hear you say next as you wipe it yourself that it had dog hair on it. 😂 oh boy did it make me giggle
The instapot glass lid is what you use if you are going to use the instapot as a slow cooker.
Whaaaa? I didn’t know I could do that. I need to read the instructions 😂
You don’t even need the glass lid if you use it as a slow cooker - just keep the vent open so it doesn’t build up pressure. Totally safe to declutter 😉
I suggest putting anything you don’t use regularly in the large pantry, especially small appliances & stick with what you use daily/weekly. We did that a few years ago & it was a game changer!
I don’t own an instant pot, but I think the glass lid may be for when it is being used as a crock pot. I think it can be used as an instant pot, or a crock pot. I hear you on the vertical cupboard for cookie sheets, etc. In my old house I had a vertical cupboard and now I no longer have one and I miss it. ❤ good luck with the kitchen.
I was thinking your kitchen window might be a good place for the marble cake stand :)
I solved my utensils drawer over load by putting the ones I use all the time in a cute container on the counter where I use them.
Great kitchen video
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Also the beautiful punch bowl could be a small plant holder and you can look at it all the time rather than being out of sight.
I’m Swedish, that’s so funny when you described the apron. Does your MIL have any more information? And I suggest you make it into a pillowcase for a throw pillow.
You could make Christmas ornaments from the cookie cutters themselves.
I have the same problem with my sheet pans. I only have drawers, not a thin, tall cabinet especially for them. So, they live in a drawer.
I also have stirring utensils next to my stove, and measuring cups/spoons in another, but that is because my food prep is in the area in which I store measuring items. My stove spoons and spatulas are in divider bins in the drawer, which helps with organizing and keeping them from becoming a jumbled mess. I also store the utensils E-W instead of N-S, with half going one direction and half another, so I can maximize my allotted spaces.
Use it next to sink to hold soap/lotions... Set down rings etc.
My grandma stored her purse in the oven….because she said that’s the last place someone would look if they were trying to steal from her 🤣🤣🤣 As far as I know she never forgot it was in there any time she turned it on….I know I definitely would forget 🫣😆
That’s a great story! I guess I would forget it was in there once 😂😂😂
Regarding the paper lunch bags, you could store them with your crafts, as it's what they really are...
I noticed in your utensil drawers you duplicates maybe remove everything from the drawer decide what to keep weeding out duplicates. When done place the keep back in the drawer then you hot pads should fit nicely. Just a thought.😊
And do a tutorial with family members about how to place utensils in drawer so they are easy to see at a glance, maybe.. they are all sunbathing, facing the same direction😂
I use small, long boxes as dividers in my utensil drawer. I store aprons that I use only a few times per year in the back of my hand towel/dish cloth drawer.
I use my glass lid to reheat various things on the 30 min cycle, I also use it to make yogurt.
That's such a pretty bowl of your late moms. Why would you hide it????
I use my instant pot glass lid when I'm using the slow cooker setting and making bone broth. I also use my instant pot liner as a soup pot on the stove top occasionally as well, I use the lid in that situation too.
I use the Instapot glass lid when I make yogurt about every other week.
See if Andy can't make that drawer under the oven easier to operate. That's where my cookie sheets live.
I think you'd be happy with dividers in your utensil drawer
Instapot lid can be used for crockpot setting or to keep food hot when done using the steamer lid for any other setting on the Instapot.
Hi Erica. Have a great weekend
Remake the apron into a table runner or a large placemat for the center of your table. Or, if there's enough fabric, you can repurpose it into cloth napkins
The problem with your utensil drawer may be that it’s not you who puts the utensils away? I believe you have your kids do a lot of loading and unloading of dishes? I might be wrong. You have to consider that others are not going to put the utensils away the way that works best - they’re just going to chuck them in the drawer. So then you have to organize from a perspective of “What can I live with? What will work with not ideal organization?” Or you teach your kids your expectations for that area.
I got rid of my crockpot and just use the instant pot crockpot setting. That's what the glass lid is for.
I had a huge collection of plastic packaged cutlery and didn’t know what to do with it. I hate to throw them out and they don’t recycle them in our area. I posted them on our local Facebook Buy Nothing group and got several replies. I guess for people who entertain a lot especially for BBQs they’re very useful. We would have used them years ago but just don’t have the need for them anymore.
I roll my dish towels and put them in a drawer. They take up a lot less space and you can see each one.
Those little items which are beautiful and also sentimental and carry the love of family - they're a problem. I love the apron and kept thinking it would be nice to have it ornamented somehow - but how on earth can you do that with an apron - hang it on the wall and it just looks like that's whee you peg up your apron rather than an ornament. So, I'm like you, back into the cupboard! The punchbowl is beautiful - I would have issues letting that go, myself. Even without the connection to your mum. Thank you for sharing your journey, I know you mentioned that you weren't feeling great in your last video, and honestly, I just hope you get a little bit of joy from these videos and feel a little of the appreciation and respect your viewers out here feel for you.
IMO, those plastic spoons should sit in the cabinet that you found them in. Maybe use the black storage holder to keep them in. Someone was using them and liked that spot. I kept moving stuff until I got some storage holders like your black ones. Everything then had a home.
Question, is there a place to store the measuring cups and spoons by the baking center?