Sorry, that picture was taken with my iPhone, pre-Canon. My dilemma was basically what products do I keep here, and how should I do it? We had 3 kinds of garbage bags stored in 3 different places throughout the house. After switching things around for a long time, I finally found a balance.
Ignore the lack of prettiness, but now each item has a specific spot and is completely accessible. All of these items are used solely in our kitchen. I don't have to come to the kitchen for anything I need to use in the bathroom, etc. I also never have to leave the kitchen to find an appropriate cleaning product. I was also growing tired of heading to the pantry for our mini sweeper. It is obviously dirty and I wanted to avoid keeping it where we keep food/food products. The same goes for the fly swatters.. we had been just lying them on the counter (ew). Enter a solution from Command hooks thanks to a random Target trip!
These little guys were perfect, and on clearance for $1.89 I think. SO. Happy.
There was also this other issue...
Towels for drying the dishes. I do a handful of dishes every night and I always set them to dry on a pair of towels next the sink. Obviously they don't really get dirty, so I keep them around for multiple uses. I was keeping them under the sink but it started to gross me out a little, particularly once we started keeping the little duster in there.
So I got to thinking about other open spaces in our kitchen. We have this awkward cabinet just across from the sink in the island that wasn't being put to good use.
I transferred over a few bins I had to fill it up (it's quite deep). One bin keeps the towels for drying in between uses, the other keeps dirty dish rags. I use a new rag each time I do dishes (no sponges here), so they pile up on the counter fairly quickly. And then I would take them to the laundry room and they would pile up on the floor until I had a full load of towels. Not ideal.
Yep, these are dilemmas of my life. But solving them makes me pretty giddy, no matter how simple.
