Unclutter Your Kitchen

Keeping the clutter off my counters was a chore until I started using a file folder bin. 

With the four of us having things going on,  there are always papers involved and mail coming in which ended up on my counter.  I would have to pile them up or move them when I went to make a meal or bring in groceries.  They ended up lost or messed up or piled up and I would forget about them...

I bought a file holder with with no lid.  No lid, because if there is flat space, something else would be put on top of it :).   There is a file for bills, each kid, my husband, me, recipes, and coupons.  This way everything goes in a file and not on my counter. 
I try to go through each folder at the end of the month and get rid of anything we don't need. 

Really important papers, which are time sensitive, are pinned on a bulletin board in our kitchen.

I bought my bin at Target for about $12.  Twelve dollars well spent!  It even came with the hanging folders. 

The folder I keep my recipes for the month goes in the recipe  hanging folder and then I move the recipe to the hanging folder after I use it.