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Dining Room Organizing Challenge

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This month is the start of the Monthly Organizing Challenge. Hope you stick with me until December. This year's challenge will help you organize 11 areas of your home and life and will motivate you to declutter and simplify. The final month will be a self-care month. In our first month, we are focusing on Dining Room decluttering and organization. Here we go!

Jump to:
  • WEEK 1 Challenge
  • WEEK 2 Challenge
  • WEEK 3 Challenge
  • WEEK 4 Challenge
  • Conclusion
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By now, your dining room was probably used a lot this past holiday season, and this area may have items that need to be put away as well. So, this month's organizing challenge is to go through your dining room and organize the space.  Here is a list of areas in the dining room to organize this month:

WEEK 1 Challenge

Go through the liquor cabinet and clear out any liquor that seems rancid. Here's an article from Insider about how to know if a bottle of alcohol is rancid.

Then, while going through your cabinet, ensure your alcohol is stored properly.  Liquor usually doesn't go bad. However, you may need to check each one and answer these questions:

  • Does it smell odd?
  • Does it look cloudy or discolored?
  • Is it after the 'best used by' date on it?

If any of these answers are yes, you should discard them.

If you have a few of these bottles, to discard them properly, you will need to dilute them with water and pour them down the drain.

WEEK 2 Challenge

The next weekly challenge is to go through your cabinet that stores your serving platters (affiliate) and declutter any serving platters (affiliate) that you don't use, and give it to a charitable.  If you do not have a list of charitable sites, check out my weekly organizing challenge to make up a charitable donate site list.

WEEK 3 Challenge

The next challenge is to go through your cabinet and get rid of any broken or unused plates, bowls, or mugs. These items will most likely need to be thrown away and not donated. If you do have a few that are in good condition, you can donate them.

WEEK 4 Challenge

The final week is to go through any shelves (affiliate) and tabletop that may be used in the room for other items, like mail, medical papers, bills, etc….. If any of these items are in the dining room and you do not have a place for them elsewhere, create or buy an organized storage system that would work for these items. In bins, a filing cabinet (affiliate) box, and a small box for pens, stamps, and other essential tools (affiliate) for doing bills work nicely as a portable system. Then, store them in the corner of your dining room.

Conclusion

By organizing the dining room, you will always have a place to gather for those wonderful family and friends gatherings.  Let me know how this monthly organizing challenge goes for you. Were you able to organize the entire room?  Are you stuck in a particular area of this room? I would love to hear from you.

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