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The advantage of having a big kitchen with lots of cabinets is that you have more places to clutter. In my kitchen, not only do I have a junk drawer, I also have a junk cabinet. It’s right at the end of the counter where I place my purse, so it often catches things I take out when I clean out my purse. It catches mail I want to keep and old cell phones, a gift card or two, and so on.
On Monday, I had the day off. I didn’t have much planned, but I definitely wasn’t planning to clean out the cabinet. I’ve been hearing about the art of tidying up as professed by Marie Kondo. I watched a few episodes at my daughter’s house. I haven’t bought the book or embarked on any life changing goals of being more organized.
However, I was looking for something. Tickets to an event this week. I was sure they were in there, but when I started looking, stuff started to tumble. And before I knew it, I was looking at a pile of “junk” on my kitchen counter. I couldn’t leave it there, and I couldn’t put it all back, so I had to sort it all out.
Before…
I found some trash: receipts from two Christmases ago, expired credit card, punch cards from out of business yogurt shops, etc.
I found some treasures: a can of cash that we were collecting for our food pantry, the tickets I was looking for, a gift card to a nice restaurant, and a pair of earrings I had bought for a gift.
Sorting, tossing, finding, remembering…
This was cleansing and satisfying. A really productive winter afternoon. This weekend, the bathroom cabinet.
Do you enjoy cleaning out or do you put it off, like me, until the task forces itself upon you?
After.
