Autumn Clean up: Kitchen and Bathroom

The areas in which I wanted to focus on this year's Seasonal clean up is the kitchen and bathroom, because boy can these areas get clogged up with stuff. Food that never gets used and I had baking stuff from last year. Yes I am afraid this is true, I hold my hands up on that. 

So decided to go through my cupboards and have a good old clean out and clean up. 

Above is a picture of our main food cupboard and this got better organised, such as spreads we use for breakfast such as peanut butter and chocolate spread, spare teabags, which we stock up on and maple syrup at the top. 

Soups, tins of baked beans and spaghetti bolognese on the second shelf.

All condiments, Pasta and sauces and ketchup and brown sauce, on the third shelf.

Next shelf we have sachets of sauces, gravy and tinned fruit and custard tins.

I basically arranged my food cupboard and cleaned it through so I could go through everything, where yes, some jars of sauce and packets of noodles got wasted as they were well out of date, I am ashamed to say, and put everything that was still okay to eat with the label facing forwards so I could see everything we had. 

We have got better in not wasting food since and only buy now what we really need for the week. 

I find you can spend so much on food that you don't realised until items end up in the bin how much money you have wasted. So I am going to make sure all food is eaten before it is too late. 

(Here are the before picture I remembered to take in our bathroom, of our main shelf in our tall bathroom cabinet where we store our toiletries on that we use regularly and yes that is the mess and dirt they have created.

Bathrooms before you know can get so overflowed with stuff that they will develop dirt especially on shelves. 

It was a must that this area got cleaned, and sorted out, and this also meant that my bathroom windowsill was cleared and tidied aswell. 

To clean this area I used my very favourite anti-bacterial wipes (see below) from Poundland, and got this area spick and span. 

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Above is the aftermath of my clean up of my bathroom shelf in our bathroom cabinet, and what a difference? 

So satisfying if I do say so myself. It was well worth the Saturday morning in which this was done. 

Above is how my bathroom windowsill looked before it was cleared, and below is after it had been cleared. 

It is amazing what a good old seasonal clean up can do to an area. 

We try not to store too many things on windowsills because these areas as can become super cluttered and things can quickly become mouldy the same with keeping items around the bath. 

If you store items on the windowsill then keeping them in a storage bin is the key, and what we keep in here, are sponges for my son, sanitary towels and Henry's body cream. 

There are some conkers on the windowsill too, because spiders love bathrooms, so if you don't like a spider in your bath then get those conkers ready. 

The other items we keep in our bathroom which gets locked away in our tall bathroom cabinet at the top in a closed cupboard is our bathroom cleaning items, such as bleach, sprays and spare cloths. Keep them out of sight and out of reach of children, because they can if not careful think these are new things to play with, which they are of course not. 

I would do the same for items such as razors, make up and nail polishes and removers. 

Spare items do not need to be displayed and kept out of sight, and as long as you know that they are there, that is okay. 

So that's it for this blog, and I will post more. Sorry for the delay, it is a very busy time of year for me as I have many birthdays and then Christmas but will get out more blogs on my seasonal clean ups this year, as we continue on. 

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Carrie X