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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.
Reflections on the Teche 