What’s Under Your Sink

Howdy.

I suppose there might have been a better title for this round. Perhaps, “What Do You Want to Get Off of Your Counter” might have better summarized my motivation for this particular commentary.

For some time now, I have been frustrated by the fact that my limited counter space is intermittently consumed by this or that. Still, I lacked the perspective (or five quiet minutes) to pinpoint the problem and seek out a solution. All this… until now.

One of the ‘collections’ that frequent my counter tops are the darling recyclables. The other primary contributor is the lovely collection of ‘to-be-taken-out-to-the-compost” effects of various natures.

Aaahhh. I type away eagerly at my keyboard now with a smile on my face and the knowledge that my countertop collections have been reduced (oh my goodness, I cannot believe it!!) by TWO!

When I paused to appreciate that the recyclables and compostables were sucking away most of my precious countertop on a regular basis, I immediately set to finding a solution.

Some folks (including my awesome in-laws) are cool enough to have an installed recycle bin in their knock-out new kitchen. Presently, the hubby and I are more of the “jazz it up” variety. As such, my counter top clearing remedy was rather simple. I headed straight on over to Target and grabbed myself two small trash cans. (Yes, we already had one).

I selected the first of my new Target receptacles to adsorb our recyclables. I wanted a lidless option that would be easy to toss cans, bottles, junk mail, and plastic bags into. Allthewhile keeping in mind that the new addition to my under sink space would have to share the cu in I had to offer.

Next, the quest for a compost can. This proved a little more time consuming. Compost, as we know, doesn’t smell too bad when it is out in the yard, cooking down to gorgeous fuel for the garden. Under the sink, prior to decomposition, however, these goodies can be a hot stinky mess. For this reason, I selected a small trash receptacle that had a foot press, flip-top lid. A regular plastic grocery bag could fill the entire container (again proving that there are thousands of uses for these little bags).

Consistent with the hubby’s streamlined household theme, I opted for black for both of the containers. Looking back, I am sure they could have been tangerine and it would have been fine, as they now have a permanent home under my kitchen sink.

Here, you will see not only my amazing doodling abilities, but also a brief diagram of my undersink.

Hopefully, this simple rearrangement will help others to declutter their world (or counter)!!!!

Best of luck Urban homesteaders!