Kitchen Week

[Winged One]

Week 8: October 14 - 20, 2012
Holiday Grand Plan by Katie Leckey
Holiday Grand Plan Printables by Cynthia Ewer

Week Eight sees us down and dirty in the heart of the home: the kitchen. It's Kitchen Week at the Holiday Grand Plan!

This week, we'll clear the decks for the holiday cooking to come with a kitchen clean-up and declutter. Routing out the year's dirt and disorder gives us a fresh, clean start for holiday cooking to come.

In holiday prep, it's Checkpoint Week and time to make plans for Halloween night.

Ready? Let's get organized with Kitchen Week in the Holiday Grand Plan!

Deep Cleaning/Organizing Area:
Kitchen


Kitchen
Kitchen checklist
Holiday Prep
Make one batch of Holiday Goodies.
Make one extra meal for freezer again labeled HOLIDAY MEAL.
Buy two canned food items from menus (get 2 of each item, one to use and one to donate to food drive).
Buy 1/8th of TO BUY gifts. Save all receipts, note return policy before buying. Ask for gift boxes.
Wrap and label packages. If needing to ship, get some shipping boxes now and store packages in them.
Work at least 1 hour a day on homemade gifts.
Checkpoint Week! Evaluate Your Progress:

If unable to find an item for a person on list contact them or their family for ideas.
If a homemade gift is not going well, set it aside for after Christmas and decide on another gift.
Buy pumpkin for Halloween.
Review costume plans with children.

 

[Winged One]

Well, the kitchen is not too bad, but not too great. It is generally clean – but when I think about the deep clean, I realise there are lots of crumbs in the cutlery drawer and miscellaneous junk living there too, I haven’t gone through the appliances cupboard in a while and I think I have too many empty glass jars for jam making in there, and I need to work on clearing out old food stocks as well. And I still have a few jobs left from previous weeks….

[] Clean out tea/coffee cupboard
[x] Tidy plastic bowls cupboard
[] Tidy appliances cupboard
[x] Go through food in storage cupboards
[] Check baking supplies
[] Clean worktops, including under appliances etc
[x] Wipe down tile splashbacks
[] Clean cooker hood
[] List food, baking, cleaning needs
[] Clean out cleaning cupboard
[] Clean out cutlery drawer
[] Shine the sink, including cleaning the overflow wastes
[] Sort DD's toys
[] Take out some toys for seasonal rotation
[] Take out toys for donation to charity/cousins
[] Tidy under the bed
[] Dust the dresser, chest of drawers, bookcase
[] Clean gutters
[] Wash outside windows
[] Sweep chimney
[] Check upstairs smoke alarm
[] Continue tossing old papers from sitting room
[] Continue filing recipes etc to keep in sitting room

[] Book dentist appointments
[] Bring DD to appointment Fri
[] Order coal, logs, briquettes
[][] Keep emptying freezer
[x][x][x] Buy Hallowe’en Pumpkin (We’re only carving 1 of the 3)
[x] Buy “Trick or Treat” candy
[/] Organise DD’s costume (we think we’re decided on a skeleton – but there are mutterings about a bat)
[] Find DD’s old costumes to donate to school’s “Used costume sale” (new this year and GREAT idea by the PTA)

[] Consider holiday outfits
[] Look for Christmassy Jumper for me
[x] Update budget
[x] Update master gifts list
[][][] Work on crafts list (beanie hats, crayon rolls especially)
[] Make 1 batch cookie dough
[] Bottle Rhubarb liqueur
[] Start limoncello
[][] Buy 1-2 gifts
[] Find and Buy 3 fruit basket decorations
[] Find and Buy 3 flower basket decorations
[] Find and Buy 3 fish decorations
[] Write 5 cards
[] Make 1 freezer meal

It’s a long list, but in baby steps. And there are plenty of little crosses happening to show some progress.

 

[AuntJamelle]

This is a big week for me!!! Lots to do! Although I use next week (Pantry) to finish up in the Kitchen as needed, so I'm telling myself not to stress out too much.

Got a good start yesterday! And this is an easy room for me to work in as my evening routine already includes a lot of time in it!

[ ] Dust ceiling for cobwebs
[ ] Clean fan
[/] Dust space above all cupboards
[X] Dust/Wipe down top of fridge
[ ] Pull out fridge, vacuum behind, underneath, etc.
[ ] Wash down outside of cupboards and appliances
[ ] Wash blinds
[ ] Clean window, window sill, ledge
[ ] Clean door and storm door glass, inside and out
[ ] Clean out inside of fridge
[X] Clean microwave
[X] Empty, clean and refill each drawer
[X] Silverware
[X] Pot Holder-Measuring cups/spoons
[X] Towels
[X] Large Utensil
[X] Ceran Wrap, etc.
[X] Baby Meds/Misc
[X] Pantry Drawers
[/] Empty, clean and refill each cabinet
[X] Tupperware
[X] Misc. storage
[X] Under sink
[ ] Left of stove
[ ] Right of stove
[ ] Glasses
[X] Pots/Pans
[X] Pantry
[ ] Empty, clean and reload inset shelves
[ ] Scrub sink
[ ] Stove burners
[ ] Clean oven
[ ] Vaccuum underneath stove
[ ] Clean counter tops
[ ] Vacuum
[ ] Wash baseboards
[ ] Scrub floor

 

[AuntJamelle]

Small update:

[X] Clean out inside of fridge

Took me most of the night in between normal evening routine. But it is at least one thing I can check off my list!!!

Holiday Prep Update:

- Spent some time crafting yesterday evening, not much, but some
- Ordered postage stamps for this years Christmas cards (Ouch!)

 

[AuntJamelle]

Still trying to plug away at the list!

Cupboards
[X] Left of stove
[X] Right of stove
[X] Glasses

Holiday Prep:

- Spent small amount of time crafting at end of evening; My eyes just got too heavy to work very long!