Actually it’s four new mugs, and now my kitchen looks like this:

Friday night I was online shopping to distract myself from cascading life issues. Usually I just fill a shopping cart with precious shiny things, and then never hit buy. But I was particularly enamored by some jade green coffee mugs, and they were on sale, and I had a voucher. So I now have four new mugs heading my way next week, and a cupboard full of mugs that definitely doesn’t have room for any more.

The simple solution is to just get rid of a few old mugs and move on with life. Or, and hear me out, I could completely remove everything from all the cupboards in the kitchen, and attempt to impose a whole new organizational paradigm in my house.

Yeah, I went with option B, and now every bench is covered by plates, cups, water bottles etc etc.

I’m currently separating things into coffee things, travel things, things I have three of, things I have never used, and things I would use if they weren’t stuck behind things I don’t need. Also I suspect I will be removing a few cupboard doors, because no one in this household can remember things exist once they can’t see them.

So the mug purchase is going to throw the entire house into carnage for a few days. I’m having a slightly manic reaction to new medication which is making staying on any single task very difficult. Oh and my eldest child is having a birthday tomorrow, for which nothing is organized.

Unless you are new around here you will have worked out this is going to be a 2-3 parter, and you will not be getting any satisfying “after” pictures for a few days yet.

Tune in for Part II where I end up building an entirely new piece of furniture to make things work.