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I’m a freak of nature when it comes to cleaning up. I can honestly let the house go to the point of CHAOS (can’t have anyone over syndrome) but when it’s time to reorganize, I’m very OCD. It has to be perfect. Which is probably why I procrastinate cleaning. I wan’t it done a certain way, and it takes a long time.

Anyway, yesterday was a clean out the cabinets day. And while they look awesome, there’s a pile of junk still on the counter that’s driving me crazy today so I’ll shortly be attacking that, and then cleaning out that dreaded plastic bowl/Rubbermaid/Tupperware cabinet where I have 33 bowls of different sizes, and 9 lids that don’t go to any of it.

If you don’t follow me on Twitter or Facebook then you didn’t get this link yesterday for these awesome spice tins. I bought 60 of the round ones in different sizes after I counted all my spices and saw how much of each I had. Sixty spice tins, plus shipping and handling: Total $61. On top of that, I got a notice an hour later, they had already shipped! It sure beats the set of 6 for $19.99 you get at Bed Bath and Beyond. Go buy yourself some today.

Anyway, I set about cleaning out my spice cabinet, and the remaining portion of what I call my ‘pantry’. I like my spices in alphabetic order and generally they stay that way for at least 6 to 8 months before a crowded pantry, husband or laziness starts getting things out of control.

I started by pulling all the baking stuff, boxes, bottles and packages of who knows what on the counter. That sure is a lot of stuff!

I have a lot of baking things. I don’t usually bake. I can’t handle the sweets. But, I like to cook, and experiment. This is leftovers from my infamous marshmallow concoctions. They were To. Die. For.

When all was said and done, I took some of those wayward plastic containers and put them to good use. All that mess on the counter?

The cans though need some help. They’re orderly, but you try to find the can of corn there in the back. This is what drives my OCDness crazy and makes me spend hours online looking for those awesome pull out cabinets where you can see all the stuff at once. I can’t afford new cabinets, but will spend hours dreaming and decorating about how exactly the kitchen should be redone. It’s an endless cycle.

Next, was the small appliance cabinet. I literally collect kitchen things I think, and if it’s out there, I’ve bought it, tried it, and it’s now in the garage sale pile. In this cabinet were over 50 of the tea cup plates, and about the same number of tea/coffee cups. You know the kind that come in a set of dishes but yet are really too small for coffee, and really, who uses those little plates to set the cup on?

I kept them because I saw once on Martha where you can glue the saucer and cup together, fill it with candle wax and you’ve got a cute and handy little candle to give away, decorate, whatever.

I don’t make candles. But I kept them just in case.

I also had about 50 different kinds and size of cookie cutters. Copper ones from Martha, cheesy ones from the grocery store, and a myriad of others in between.

I don’t really make rolled cookies either.

After making some hard tough decisions about future projects that will never happen, this is what I get.

Did you know I owned a triple set of cheesecake pans in various sizes? And a spice/coffee mill? And an electric knife? Well we do now don’t we! And I can see them.

Trash. And two boxes of garage sale stuff.

Sometimes it’s good to be a little OCD.

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