OH YES I forgot! I keep sacrificial condiments! 
in one section I KNOW I lose things, I fill the space instead! A giant jar of Costco Kalamata olives, an old jar of fire tonic that barely has any left, soda for my MIL that we donāt drink, it is VERY PURPOSEFULLY left there. Both to prevent other things from going there and dying, and also so that I never ever have a fridge that starts to look empty to me, because that triggers major scarcity brain for me. So. Sacrificial space fillers.
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And in the vein of āugly but it worksā, I have a box in one door. Literally a box. The little bottled were sliding all over with how much deeper these door spaces are. And then it occurred to me, I almost always use soy sauce, fish sauce, rice wine vinegar etc together, so why not literally put them together? So theyāre in an old sauce pack box to keep them together and prevent them from falling over
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One of the things I love the most from KC Davis/Struggle care (formerly domestic blisters) is the idea that you are totally allowed to break rules. Only ever remember that you forgot deodorant when youāre pouring your coffee? Cool, put deodorant above your coffee maker! Dirty dishes in the sink a big impediment to your day moving on, but you canāt do them as you go and itās a consistent issue? Cool, get a second counter top dish rack FOR DIRTY DISHES. Forget to floss until youāre in bed? Bedside table flosser! There are no rules accommodate the rules you already break. I always piled my floordrobe on top of my dresser. Added an intentional basket, boom, itās not a mess, it has a home, this is just my system now.
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Very clever!
I have almost completed unfucking my kitchen bench, Ponder has completed a large portions of unfucking our outside areas in preparation for summer and also because we had a verge waste pick-up (bulky shit gets picked up by a truck from the council). It feels GOOD.
The study nook may require repeated unfucking because each time we do a different area, it gets oiled up again, but the house is getting noticeably easier to manage and the other spaces arenāt getting re-fucked to the same degree.
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I think some areas are destined to need cyclical unfucking. That is my desk for sure. I haveā¦ varying levels of peace with that. Somewhere on the spectrum of resignation to peace, lol.
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My fridge game is pretty strong (but I donāt have kids, so ymmv). For me cleaning it out weekly works. The night before grocery shopping day I go through and pull out any old leftovers that are done, empty condiment bottles that husband has inexplicably put back in the fridge, etc. If it needs it Iāll do a quick wipe down but I donāt pull out everything and scrub all the shelves/drawers or anything. This is great because in addition to showing waste really clearly, nothing ever gets super gross or moldy, I very rarely buy duplicates by accident, and itās easy to put away new groceries because thereās lots of room. It probably only takes like 5 minutes to do the clear out and then whatever other time for washing the freshly emptied reusable food containers.
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I cleared off a table and also got this sorted. Itās very cheap yarn, basically for whenever we need some string for a craft or whatever. Itās in two pieces because at one point I was tired of finding the end and just skipped a new one.
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One idea for the box which I use whenever I have something like that - cut off the flapping lid bits.
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I also came in to show off string. This used to be a Soldotna colourwork sweater that was too tight (I forgot to go up a needle size).
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I definitely need to do that. Life has been triage mode around here, so certain details (quite literally) arenāt making the cut.
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I decided to unfuck our linen closet. I realized that some of the things I would pull out that didnāt get rotated as frequently were smelling a bit musty so Iām washing everything thatās in there in batches. I did pillowcases, washcloths, and hand towels to start with and now it looks like we have way more pillowcases than we could possibly need. Even sorting by okay, good, and best, I could get rid of all the okay ones and weād still have plenty. I guess I should just donate them to goodwill?
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Or an animal shelter! They often need linens.
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Does acrlyic plastic used in organizers get recycled? I feel really bad buying all this plastic shitā¦
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Like the ones you put in your pantry? My thinking is that that plastic waste is offset by being able to see what you have and not over purchasing as a result. If it reduces your consumption everywhere else, thatās a net positive in spite of meeting plastic for the organizers to get to that point.
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Spice cabinet is (mostly) unfucked. Itās not perfect, but itās better.
Now to use up spices, because I donāt actually need three different zaāatarsā¦
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I got the old Christmas tree out of the garage and taken to the thrift store. I have been trying to unload it since January and figured itās finally late enough in the year to donate with a clear conscience!
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You are going to make someoneās week! I just got one on my Buy Nothing group and was thrilled.
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i am sold
also i asked this question before and am just now remembering
and still havenāt bought any organizers
hahahahahaha
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Our BN group is SO slow. Hardly anything ever gets taken! I have rehomed a ceiling painter, a rechargeable vacuum, and a cat toy that Claude didnāt like, but have failed more often. Including with the tree. Sigh. But hopefully someone will find it at ARC and take it home! Itās in decent shape, we just wanted a larger one now that we are homeowners.
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Thatās such a bummer! Ours is generally solid, but one of the admins just posted that the group is getting big enough that theyāll have to break it into smaller groups soon. Iām preemptively heartbroken
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