Reset Your Life – Under The Sink

INSIDE : AS THE JOURNEY TO RESET YOUR LIFE CONTINUES, WE MOVE TO UNDER THE KITCHEN SINK IN ONE DAY.

I just realized I missed a very VITAL cabinet in my kitchen. I’m sure you can all agree – under the kitchen sink. DOH!

SO what do you do when you realize in the middle of the day, while you are at work, that you NEED to finish a project? SIMPLE – call in reinforcements! TARGET drive up pick up!

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Deal with the grossness

I’m sorry but I really dislike this part of the kitchen! It’s gross. We’ve had problems with our garbage disposal….something about potato peels. No matter how much we dry it out and spray cleaning stuff….it smells horrible and gross stuff has grown down there. Spiders like it there…..no thanks.

But alas, I need stuff to be stored down there. Cringe!!!!

So I looked on Pinterest to see ideas that other people came up with but it seemed like none of the Pinterest ideas had garbage disposals?!?!? Mine is like in the middle of the right side….not many storage containers are going to fit in there. But I measured the space and realized that 2 things might work. Since I forgot about this area and had no supplies, I went on my Target app and started shopping my options.

This white shelf organizer might work. But I went with the more complex under the sink storage. And since it gets so wet down there, I added some contact paper to my order.

Ordered it for pick up, paid with my Target RED card – by the way if you don’t have one of these….what’s wrong with you?? I have the RED debit card. It’s not a credit card so no credit check, no monthly payments, and I can’t spend money I don’t have….just like my debit card!!!

Start with the PURGE!

Like all organizing projects…..remove everything from the cabinet! Throw away what doesn’t get used. I found orange scented furniture polish. I don’t even know where that came from because I don’t use furniture polish…I don’t like the film it leaves behind. So that went into the trash. I found dried out stainless steel cleaner wipes…..trash!

Clean

This cabinet needed more than a wipe….so I put some hot water in a bowl and grabbed a scrubber. I killed a spider. 🤢

I dried the cabinet with paper towels and then wiped with my fav….Mrs. Meyers. Dried again. I left the doors open for about an hour.

Decoration

This cabinet is soooo weirdly shaped. The contact paper wasn’t going to fit lengthwise, I didn’t want a ton of lines, and I’m lazy. 🤷🏻‍♀️

So I measured, cut, and laid the contact paper to cover the grossness. While putting together my organizer, I discovered that it would only fit on one side….bummer! I decided to clean off the things I was putting back in the cabinet. I ran them under hot water and wiped them off with a paper towel, nothing major!

Honestly the cheaper white pieces would have been better.

Finishing Up

I kept frequently used items close to the front. As I was putting everything away, I realized I wanted 2 more things. A paper towel holder to hold the garbage bags and a plastic container to hold the dishwasher pods. My son (my personal assistant these days) was heading out to hang out with friends so I asked him to stop at the Dollar Tree and pick those up for me.

Well…..apparently he thought that it would be opened till midnight?!? I don’t know but he didn’t stop. Guess I have an errand to run tomorrow.

But for now, I’ll sleep better knowing there’s one less spider in my house! OHHHHH and since I have a choice about where to shop…….Target app – over the door paper towel holder and clear bins to hold the pods.

****UPDATE – the over the door trash bag holder did not work. It is impossible to insert the rolled up bags into the paper towel holder. So on the floor it sits!

The before and after.

Wanted to mention that the shopping bag organizer has been a lifesaver for many years now. This one worked best for me because I don’t like putting things on walls etc. And if you don’t know about Bar Keepers Friend, your life is not complete.

Happy spider killing,