Decluttering the Top and front of the Fridge Freezer
In this today's task, we will be decluttering the top and
front of the fridge and freezer.
The fridge and the freezer one of the most often used appliances that are in our kitchen. They can get easily out of control and disorganised if we don’t keep an eye on them.
Gather Your Supplies
I recommend that you gather a few supplies before starting
today's Challenge:
- Rubbish bag – for discarding old and expired food
- Bowl of hot soapy water
- Cleaning supplies for cleaning the fridge and freezer
- Label Maker or labels and a marker
Decluttering the Front of Your Refrigerator
Before we begin with the main part of the task, it is worth
taking a couple of minutes to declutter the outside of your
refrigerator. What do you have on the front
of your fridge?
As you can see I had quite a bit of clutter that had sneaked
its way onto not only the front of the fridge and freeze but onto the side
too.
First, I removed the children’s certificates and put them in the kid's scrapbook file (it’s a file in that I keep all of their certificates and reports and acknowledgement postcards from school. At the end of the school year, we stick them into the scrapbook and store them in the memory boxes in the loft.
I had an important letter on the fridge which I needed to be actioned – this was to be done on the following weekend, I made a note of it on my calendar and phone to remind me to do it then I removed it and pinned it on to the command centre that I recently made.
I don’t know why we use the fridge for paper storage. Think about it, it's in the kitchen with all the grease and steam, so the papers will naturally get covered in that too.
I removed the fridge magnets and gave them a quick wash, I ended
up dropping one, which broke, so I am claiming that as a decluttered (well, I didn’t
put it back!!!) I did declutter my magnets the last time I washed my fridge
down, so there weren’t that many left.
I had a menu planner on the front of the fridge – Fantasy Dawn
had big plans to use this – Reality Dawn never used it once, so every time I went
to the fridge - I was reminded that I hadn’t used it. All of the work I had done during that day was
cancelled out by the one task I failed to complete. It had to go – I am not playing that game anymore.
I cleared the items that were on top of my fridge, and there
were a few items that I managed to declutter.
I gave the front, side and top a good wash down, it's amazing how gross the top of the fridge can be.
Look at the muesli box – I’m disgusted that I let it get that bad, you
know we do actually use that box and we hadn’t realised it was that dirty.
Once it was all clean and dry, I started to put the items back on top.. I put the steamer pan and oven casserole pan in a box to stop them from them sliding on top of the fridge,
For the sake of transparency - this task did take me longer than 15 minutes, because not only did I declutter, but I cleaned and organised as well. I would say that the task took me between 30 and 40 minutes. However, if I were only to do the decluttering this would have been a 15-minute task
It was worth spending the extra 15 minutes as I think that it looks so much better now.
What do you keep on top of your fridge? Do you keep your important papers on the front of the fridge? Drop a message in the comments below. I love seeing you're before and after photos so please tag me in the #GoDeclutterBlog30DayChallenge
I look forward to you joining me again when we organise your fridge
