Decluttering the Pantry.

Today’s Closet | Pantry.

Like the desk and bookcase built-ins, the fact that this apartment has a pantry was Very Exciting. A lifelong dream realized, truly. Except, it is part-pantry, part-storage-closet.

Before

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After

(Yes, the before photo was taken long before I reorganized – recent grocery trips meant the shelves were more full.)

Labeled shelves! With Japanese masking tape and a Sharpie. Fancy.

A very important food group.

The Process:

1- Take everything out but food.

2- Organize the food by shelf. Label shelves.

3- Realize most of the stuff I took out was Mike’s stuff. Vow to take it to our (very small) storage spot in the garage.

4 – Put things that we will use in the next few months back in the closet.

5- Dance around in the pantry, because there’s actually space to do so.

The Casualties:

The keyboard, fly fishing pole, fan, kite, and crate of musical stuff will be going to our storage space. When I stop being lazy.

We’ve had a stack of frames in the pantry for ages, but don’t really like hanging them on our walls. So, we took the photos out of the frames and are donating the frames, along with a few other decoration items.

I’m also sending Gabe’s leftover golden party plates/cups/napkins to my mom to use for my parent’s golden anniversary party-slash-vacation this summer.

Lessons Learned:

• Realize what you want to use a room/space/closet for, and make sure you are using it that way.
• If it’s negatively affecting my mood to go into a space, something probably needs to change. Even though it seems overwhelming and I want to procrastinate.
• Cleaning closets is hard work. Blogging about it seems like an easy idea, but is way more work than normal blogging.
• Even when I’ve decluttered in the past, clutter is always with us. Amen.

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