We are sure hoping for a healthy Christmas at our house! As if the 4 months of colds weren't enough... we were hit this weekend with that horrible flu that is going around. I got it first and thought maybe we were in the clear with 2 full days and no other sickies.... then last night I was woken up (though barely asleep) at midnight with toddler puke. I was awake most of the night attempting to ensure that a bucket made it under her mouth in time. I was mostly successful and only had to do one load of laundry.
Organize It Mondays - Silverware Drawer
enough about the sickness... moving onto my regular Monday posts. (I needed something small and manageable today with the events of last night) so as I was unloading my clean dishes from the dishwasher I couldn't bare to put another clean utensil in a dirty utensil tray (I had been looking at this dirty tray for weeks but had yet to do anything about it - how does a drawer that holds only clean items get so dirty anyway?)
Looking at these pictures you can't see the dirt, but the drawer was gross
There were a few problems with this drawer (though I know it is already fairly organized). My main problem is that the silverware tray would slide into the back of the drawer and I couldn't easily get at the baby utensils I had at the back.
I pulled everything out of the tray, cleaned it (and the drawer) and took out the items we never use (mainly the chopsticks and fondue sticks). I added in a drawer liner to prevent sliding.
I moved some of the items I had at the front of the drawer into the empty sections (from the chopsticks and fondue sticks) and placed everything back in.
The tray no longer slides and I turned the tray so the baby spoons are at the front and easier to access.
Easy-peasy and cost me nothing as I had the drawer liner on hand already.
It is amazing how long we live with something that isn't as efficient as it could be, especially something so easy to fix.
