![]() ![]() (Obviously if you use something less than once a day, and it sits out on your counter the rest of the time, the amount of time that it spends sitting there using up space is greatly increased!)įor me, the answer has become a no-brainer. Or leaving that item sitting unused on the counter for 7 hours and 45 minutes, just so I don’t have to spend 15-20 seconds taking it out and putting it away?.Using 15-20 seconds of time to take something out of the cabinet and put it back again, and having the other 7 hours and 45 minutes of my day with a completely clear and free counter to use to do other things like baking and cooking?.All to be able to use the item for the same 5-15 minutes as when it sat out on the counter. So, that’s about 15 seconds of time that it takes me to remove these items from the cupboard and then put them back again.It takes me 10 seconds or less to put these items back into the cabinet – depending on if I wipe them off after using them, or if I’m taking them out of the dishwasher and putting them away.It takes me about 2 seconds to open the cabinet door and grab my cooking utensil out of the container. ![]() It takes me about 5 seconds to pull my toaster out of the cabinet and plug it in.Now let’s think about how much time you would spend to take those items out of your cupboard and then put them back away. ![]() So, if you use each of those items for 15 minutes of your day at the most, that leaves 7 hours and 45+ minutes that those items are sitting unused on your counter and taking up precious space – both physically and mentally because of the visual clutter they produce. Just for example – let’s say that you have 8 hours in your day at home (8 hours are spent sleeping and 8 hours are at work – if you’re a stay at home/work at home mama like me, you’ll spend even more hours of your day at home.) Out of those 8 hours, how much time are you actually using your toaster, or coffee maker, or cutting boards, or cooking utensils? 5 minutes? Maybe 10 or 15 minutes at the very most, right? Here’s the thing about leaving these daily use items out on the counters – It’s really not as convenient as you think it is! Let’s address #1 first, and then we can move on to #2. They don’t think they have room in their cupboards for these items.They feel like these are things they use regularly and think it’s easier and more convenient to leave them out on the counter.One issue that we need to tackle before we get started is the idea of leaving things out on our counters that we use regularly because it’s “convenient.” I first came across the alternative to this idea when reading about decluttering your kitchen on Becoming Minimalist.Ī lot of people leave things like toasters, coffee makers, other small appliances, cutting boards, knife blocks, cooking utensils and more out on their counters. I hope those posts inspired some of you to think about decluttering and completely clearing off your kitchen counters too! So today I want to walk you through how to completely clear off your kitchen counters! Is it really convenient? And if you follow me on Instagram you probably noticed that I spent most of a recent Friday sharing my process of clearing off my counters. I shared last week about how I had completely cleared off my kitchen counters last summer, and the big difference that it made in my life. ![]() A clean kitchen is a happy and productive place to be! The kitchen is the heartbeat of the home, but too often our kitchen counters can be messy and cluttered which can lead to us feeling stressed and overwhelmed. Ready to remove toxic cleaners from your home? Find out how! ![]()
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