Great Kitchen Purge of 2011

Last weekend, I got so fed up with my kitchen!  I am sick and tired of opening cabinets and things falling on me, or having to take out 30 things to get to a casserole dish hidden in the back, or not being able to find what I want because gadgets are in 3 places in the kitchen. ENOUGH!  


Motivation fought off the procrastination monster long enough for me to go through each and every cabinet in the kitchen and find things that we don't need.  That means the item:

• has either never been used or hasn't used the object in a great while
• doesn't work as expected or is plain ol' broken
• was an impulse buy or style item that isn't practical

There are probably items that I was just sick of looking at, too, but I can't remember.  :)

I started with an empty kitchen table:

Then I did a mad dash through the baking pans and casserole cabinet:

Then I took a break for a birthday dinner plus Easter.  :)

I got back to it and filled up the table, and then some!

Phew - that's a lot of unwanted items!  I can't believe after all the times I went through the cabinets for yard sales and such that I still found this much stuff to get rid of. I guess I really meant business this time! :)

A couple people called dibs on whatever I got rid of, but then I found out my friend is getting an apartment and doesn't have any kitchen stuff, so he got true first dibs on the table o' items.  When I informed one of the original dibsters, I imagine his reaction went something like this:

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So here's what's left after I packed up the little kitchen starter kit:

• 6 miniature loaf pans
• 3 travel coffee mugs
• 2 9x13 casserole dishes - 1 with lid
• Garlic keeper (dome-shaped)
• Round glass casserole dish with lid
• 2 round and 2 oval white corning-ware casserole dishes (no lids)
• Twine dispenser
• Pampered Chef baker's roller
• Ikea can opener
• Pampered Chef crinkle cutter
• 2 stone things that keep pots from boiling over (supposedly)
• Brown sugar bear
• 2 little plastic organizers (maybe 2 inches cubed?)
• 2 ivory chargers
• Scallop-edged round platter (1 little chip on the edge)
• Heart shaped dish
• 2 round Tupperware 'forget me not' containers - 1 red, 1 white
• Tupperware cucumber keeper (green)
• 2 more coffee mugs
• 15 disposable mini loaf pans
• 1 metal loaf pan
• Glass pie dish
• 2 s-hooks
• Banana bowl

• Apple platter

• Corn plate

See anything you want?  Let me know - otherwise it's all going to Goodwill next weekend!