The Kitchen, Organized

Okay, this is going to be a fast post since I am supposed to be packing for my trip to my parents' house. But, I am SO excited about organizing my kitchen that I had to share!!

Unfortunately, in my excitement to clean my kitchen, I didn't take many "before" pictures. Actually, I only took one. So you will have to use your imagination for the rest.

I started with the "Spices Cabinet". We have a ton of random spices, mostly given to me by people who didn't want them (gotta love how people think missionaries are just desperate for stuff you don't even want!). But, I don't want to throw them out cause you never know when I will need some Spicy Spaghetti seasoning.

Here is the cabinet before:

And here it is now!

But wait! Where are the spices??


I moved them to a cabinet where I could actually see all of them! And, I put labels on top of each to it would be a lot easier to see what I have and find anything I am looking for. Yay!!


Okay, now here is the rest of the kitchen now (or most of it...for the before shots, just imagine A LOT of junk piled in random places, most of which I threw away because I couldn't even remember getting it!).

Now, before you start freaking out about the lack of food in the cabinets remember 2 things: 1) My roommate literally lives on pretzels and cookies and 2) I have been traveling a lot over the last several weeks, I have just been trying to get rid of what I have. I plan on making a BIG shopping run when I return!





This all literally took me about 5 hours, but I am SO excited to have it finished! I will literally kill my roommate if she messes any of this up (I have already warned her, haha). Unfortunately, Beth wasn't much help....



And Gizmo stayed with me the whole time I was cleaning, but he wasn't exactly helpful...







I'll try and take some pictures again when there is actually food in the cabinets so it will be even more impressive.

Now I must finish packing and get to the airport. Peace and quiet here I come!!!