Caution: Opening door may result with trama to the head!

Have you ever wondered why you are so scatter-brained? I certainly have. I used to think it was due in part to having to think for not only myself but for my husband and three kids as well. We all know if you can't find it the exact moment you think of looking for something, immediately ask mom, she knows where it is! I think after 12 years of this, we've whittled our way down to sharing one brain cell. Then when coming up with tasks for the 365 day challenge, my theory might be replaced with the fact that I am usually the one opening cabinets for meal dishes, and I'm the one putting them away after their washing, but who is it that keeps messing the cabinet all up?... like before, the husband and kids! One day I will get one of them to speak truthfully and admit that they're goals in life are to make me mentally insane.

So cutting into my rambling, Day 2 is to straighten up the cabinet that contains the dishes.

Now, I will say that before starting this, I fell ill and had about a day and a half worth of dishes to wash, so it doesn't look that horrible, or at least not as bad as usual. Let me explain what we have behind these three doors.

Door one (far left) we have the white basket filled with medications, band-aids, and thermometers of such. Why in the kitchen? Well, we started out putting them in the medicine cabinet like normal people but we have two bathrooms. So instead of buy double everything we would just put it in the master bathroom. Then someone gets hurt outside and comes in, the quickest bathroom is in the hall, but everything was in the bigger cabinet in the bigger bathroom. So we move it, then there isn't enough room for patient & nurse. Plus the kitchen is in the center of the house, same distance as the little bathroom but with more space than the bigger bathroom that's further away. Confused yet? Yeah, me too. So we have a medicine basket in the kitchen.

Door two (middle) we have the split rack to store plastic bowls underneath, ceramic bowls on top (I only have two left, thanks kids, which is why we have the plastic bowls). Cereal above both cabinets one and two. I also made the mistake of buying the jumbo boxes, can't close the doors completely!

Door three (right) we have room for extra cups on top and the bottom we have plastic plates standing up with dinner plates under the divide and saucers above.

I have things organized out but as you can see with the plastic cup/ orange lids, my mother-in-law takes the kids out for lunch on Sunday's and sometimes they come back with these cups. That is my downfall! Three new cups each week, a girl could start her own cup thrift shop!

With a few dishes washed, the cabinets emptied and wiped out, here is the after shot. Now mind you, not all the dishes were done at that time, still. I wanted to do this with the least amount of dishes to pull out/put back in.

A few new items can be seen but the most work was done in that medicine basket and taking out the bags for the over sized cereal boxes. All in all I tossed 22 cups! Should had taken a picture of that but hind-sight is 20/20. But the plus side is I could close all the doors completely after clearing out the cabinets.

It's been a complete year since I've taken on this 'Less is More' mind-set and it's true, so true. Less things to clean and pick up, less things to find room for has given me not only much MORE time for things I love and MORE space to do them in!

So if you haven't jumped in on the challenge, I highly urge you to. What do you have to lose? A few items here and there? Yes, but you gain so much more in the end!