Alys, who is a dear blogging friend at Gardening Nirvana, is good at organizing stuff – in fact that is her job, organizing people. So when she asked in a recent post about where we need help with organizational matters, I immediately thought of my spice cupboard… and the large tupperware container of herbs in another cupboard taking up much needed space in my small kitchen.
My spice cupboard is one of those shallow ones above the stove. Not ideal in terms of “keep your herbs and spices cool and dry”, but what else can I put in there?! Here it is after being emptied…
(The panel at the bottom is missing due to the dormouse… a long story you can read about here.)
Alys is such a treasure – she immediately put her thinking cap on and produced a great post all about organizing herbs and spices. I was inspired!
So, step one is “gather and review”… what chaos!
The “consolidate” and “purge” steps came next: I had to be rigorous and throw out things I really never use or that are way too old. But I also discovered some curry spices I had forgotten about, and some fresh cardamon… mmm, that smells so good. My favourite! Do you have a favourite spice?
(The cardamon inspired a cake last weekend and I shall share the recipe with you very soon.)
As I already had quite a few metal jars which are stackable I decided to invest in some new ones to match. A good decision I think… Here is what it now looks like, after a couple of hours of cleaning old jars, re-labelling and organizing:
Ahhh, that’s better.
Thanks Alys!
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For all you gardeners out there, Alys also did a very useful post on how to organize your gardening tools.
If you have any organizing challenges Alys would love to help, so go and visit her at “Gardening Nirvana“. 😀
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