Kitchen counter is without a doubt the messiest place in the kitchen and decluttering it can be a nuisance or maybe not if you if read this article on how to clear off your kitchen counters.
1. Declutter Your Cabinets
Clear out your cupboards of anything that you don’t use on a regular basis. Make room in the basement or some other storage area for these things. It’s a better use of your cabinet space to store your toaster or coffee maker that you use every day or several times a week in your cabinets, then to take up space with your Christmas dishes that you only use once or twice a year, right?
This is also a great time to get rid of and let go of items that you truly don’t need or use. Again, what’s more important to keep in your kitchen – things that you use all the time, or things you haven’t used in 5 years?
This step may take you some time the first time you tackle it. So leave yourself a good several hours one day, or work on this over the course of a week, as you work toward clearing off your counters. When I first did this, it took me working several hours each day over a whole weekend to get my counters completely clear.
2. Clear the Junk
Most of us have an area of our counters where junk just collects from all around the house. This happened to me over the past few weeks. I had put the coffee maker back up in the cupboard, after having it out for a few months, and then the space where the coffee maker was became filled up with miscellaneous junk.
My trick for junk on the counter in the kitchen is to grab a basket and put all of the junk that doesn’t belong in the kitchen into the basket. Then, viola! Your counter is cleared off and you will feel so much better! Then you can walk around the house with the basket and put things back in their appropriate places.
