Go Now To Your Dwelling Place

Follow me to Seoul

Sorry for the blog neglect lately.  I have no excuses.

Well actually I do.

I started a seperate blog for anyone interested in following us to South Korea to bring home our sweet Jackhttp://mydwellingplace.typepad.com/otherside/

xoxoxo

b

A New (Kitchen) World Order

It's no secret that I like things when they are tidy, but lately I've taken things to a new level around here.  And I'm feeling like a bit of a weird-o about the whole thing.

It all started when I was spending the afternoon with my mom a few weeks back making cookies for my annual cookie swap.  I came home inspired.  You see, in her house EVERYTHING has a place.  There is a home for everything, so when you take something out to use it, afterwords, it goes right back in it's place.  This is not exactly the case at my house.

Also, every year, right before Christmas, I spend an afternoon voluenteering with my friends at work at the Salvation Army.  All the money collected in those red kettles goes towards purchasing toys for children who's parents are the "working poor".  They make too much money to qualify for other social programs, but need help getting some gifts under the tree.

And every year when I come home from that, I look around our house and declare (or maybe it's more of a proclamation) that we have too much stuff and we need to give it all to the Salvation Army (or Seven Nation Army if you are Jack White from the White Stripes).

Then I received this amazing gift for Christmas.

Yeah that's right  - the NINJA!!  It's so freaking amazing.... but I'll get to that in another post.  The Ninja, my friends, is BIG and takes up quite a bit of cabinet space to house the whole system.  The other thing about the Ninja is that it takes the place of a bunch of other smaller appliances that I already had.  (Am I sounding like an infomercial yet??)

So it was the Ninja that officially started me down the path of what Brian likes to call The Great Purge of 2012. (Stop making me donate all my stuff why don't you!)

It began with clearing out a shelf for a blender and has resulted in 3 FULL SUV loads of stuff to the Salvation Army, and it's not over yet!  Last year I had the Housewares Swap, and though I thought of doing it again this year, I really wanted to get the stuff out of the house as I cleared out each room.

So, instead as I complete the project's in each room I will share it here.  It will help motivate me to finish.  I am determined to make this house work for us and not the other way around.

The kitchen took me the longest to do (over a week and a half) but in my defense, I had the Plague!  Really, it was the flu...but it felt like the plague!

Now we come to the part of this story that I'm not sure if I'm proud of, or embarrassed about.  For my birthday, my girlfriends planned a trip to Home Goods where I found these.

They are the OXO POP storage containters, and yes...I'm storing my dry goods in them. 

What do you think....awesome or crazy?