As the end of the year approached I found that a declutter calendar had been made for 2013. Originally I was going to make a cute dry erase calendar to have easy access to the declutter item for the day, but that turned out to be a little ambitious during December and all the festivities. Instead, I wrote each days' task on my regular kitchen calendar. I decided that Lauren's afternoon nap would be my declutter time. And off I went! Some of the days are just planning what or how to declutter or making resolutions about avoiding clutter, so it wasn't until the second week of January that a big project started. It was the fridge. We go through the fridge periodically, but sometimes I look in and realize we don't do a thorough enough job. So for three days I was suppose to clean out 2 shelves a day, the condiments, and then the outside. I went one step further because I'd found something else from Pinterest I'd wanted to do - put placemats on the shelves so that they're easier to clean and prettier. So I would completely clean off a shelf, take it out, rinse it off, put the placemat on and put much less food back (sadly, we had quite a lot of expired food). Then I cleaned off the outside, wiped it off, and put a lot less back. I felt a little like Superwoman getting that big of a project done AND taking care of a baby and coincidentally, that week was the first week since Lauren was born that I cooked dinner EVERY night.
I didn't take before pictures, one because nobody needs to see how dirty our fridge was, and two I didn't really think of it in time. But, here's the after. I don't think you can see the placemats too well, they're just black with white circles.
