my own kitchen cabinets

After posting the massive cleaning I did in my mom's kitchen, here are pictures I took of my own pantry cabinets ( I don't have a real pantry ). This started be/c I needed the blue food coloring and it wasn't in the box with the green red and yellow... so, while looking for it, I ended up emptying out my cabinets on the counter and pitching a LOT of old crap. Easter candy, Halloween candy, several open boxes/bags of crumbs, trash, empty boxes or wrappers (how does that happen!?), old this and thats. It's not that drastic maybe, but I am pleased with the makeover!

the reason for the hunt: the found blue food coloring.

the before:

the after. not too bad, huh? I purged a LOT from that bottom shelf of candy!

second cabinet before-- this is a tricky shelf, as you can see from the straws, the rest of the shel is behind the wall and I can't reach or see what's back there. So it was time to pull it ALL out and take inventory. I trashed a ton of yuck.

after--I did not know I had so many drink mix-in boxes stuffed into the corner.

A battery powered blender, with small screwdriver inside and two batteries, never been opened. Since we also have the magic bullet, I'm thinking this will be added to the yard sale pile.

potholders drawer

My grams had given me new potholders that she made me and I couldn't jam them into the potholders drawer. So I took that as a sign to clean it out. I was pretty amazed with the amount of TRASH in this drawer. WHY was I holding on to trash in there?! Ugh.

I'm glad Bridget nudged us on the board today. Maybe we'll get back at it. I know I need to. It's been a long time and I am desperate to have a yard sale. So I as I purge the house for the sale, I'll be thinking about my ten things again now!

before, had to shove the drawer in.

the amount that came out of the drawer
(two of the power cords are for items we don't have anymore)

after!

Mom's Kitchen

When I was visiting my folks, I cleaned out my mom's fridge and pantry. Here's the before and after pics.

before left side of pantry
before right side

what was emptied from the right side

what was emptied from the left side

the crazy amount of crap that was expired

after right side

after left side (still a little crazy at the bottom,
but it's stuff I just didn't know what to do with so it stayed)

before

after (see the door mostly)

the stuff that was expired.

My latest

I haven't fallen off the earth nor have I gone lazy but ohhhhhhhhh does lazy sound nice. My house is taking a backseat for now. I am full blown in landscaping mode. I have pulled and planted and seeded and mulched like it's nobodies business. It's like my full time job outside of my full time job and my 2 kids. I have spent so many hours the last week working on my gardens. I WISH I had taken before and after pics. Nothing like 4 yards of mulch to kick your ass in gear!

Anyway, still have a lot more to do until I am done. I love this stuff. Inside has to wait.

Hello June!

I'm still on vacation and am itching to get back home to work on my 10 things projects. I just wanted to encourage the other posters! Everyone take time today and grab just ten things, even if it's just ten pieces of trash off the counter or something! It doesn't have to be a giant project, just pick up something. Okay, that's all.

I Have a Secret.

While my house has been getting in order, my work has been doing just the opposite. I've been spending so much time doing house stuff, that the organization of my work has suffered.

I work on my own for the most part. I'm in outside sales and my office is my car. I have A LOT of things to carry in my car (literature, samples, display boards, education materials, etc). I live out of my car and am on the road for most of the day. I'm pretty much a free bird, but every once in awhile, I have to work with my boss. This is the case for the next two days.

I desperately needed a big overhaul of my work life. So, my husband took over tonight by making dinner and putting the kids to bed. Thank the heavens for him! Here are the tasks I tackled tonight:

• Cleaned out my car
• Cleaned out two work bags
• Organized and printed reports to go over with my boss
• Organized my samples
• Organized my promotional/educational materials
• Organized my target list
  

I hate working with my boss. I always feel like it's so unnatural. At any rate, I wanted to make sure all of my ducks were in order. I'm not totally done, but at least I'll appear on top of my game tomorrow!

I'm Baaaaaaack.

No, I didn't fall off of the face of the earth! Nor did I forget about the Our 10 Things endeavor. My power cord simply went kaput on my personal computer and my work computer's firewalls wouldn't allow me to sign in and post. Problem solved: The new power cord has arrived!

We had our garage sale on Saturday. I forgot to take pictures. You've seen lots of the things I had collected from around the house. We made $400 and sent the rest to the thrift store that benefits the local/regional children's hospital.

I've also made good attic progress. I will post pictures.

Just a short post for now to say that I am back!