Surprising Items Your Kitchen Doesn't Actually Need

between it being the most used room in the home and being one of the rooms where there are the most gadgets created for it the kitchen tends to be the room that gets the most cluttered the fastest and don't get me wrong I have a lot of kitchen gadgets I really love but today I'm going to share with you a list of things that your kitchen really just doesn't need [Music] okay the first thing on my list is actually probably the number one thing I regret from putting on my wedding registry and that is an entire pots and pans set at the end of the day maybe it wasn't the worst thing to register for but now that I've lived on my own for like 17 years or however long it's been really dating myself here that most of us don't use every single pot and pan that comes in one of those pots and pans sets a certain pan that I may use all the time somebody else may not use ever I just started buying my pots and pans individually next up is those extra pieces a lot of kitchen gadgets that we buy maybe the kitchen gadget is something that's worthwhile but it comes with lots of little accessory pieces and maybe we're not using those I don't know what it is about the people who create kitchen appliances they love to create little extra accessories to go with it but lots of times you don't end up using them if it makes you feel better keep it when you first purchase the product and if you haven't used that little accessory in like six months maybe just get rid of it and on that note also get rid of duplicates lots of times we will either buy duplicates of kitchen items or when we buy it it literally comes in a set of two or three and we usually don't need that many of them be honest how many rubber spatulas do you really need getting rid of all the duplicates in your kitchen will make just finding what you need a lot easier and maintaining what you have a lot easier the next thing that you don't need in your kitchen is all of the 8 million different kinds of knives this is kind of like the pots and pans thing we tend to buy a set of them we all have like the two or three knives that are our favorite that we use every single time I know I do do you really need four different paring knives do you need eight different kind of knives for chopping things stick with just your most used necessary knives next up is mismatched Tupperware or like Tupperware that's missing the lids or the bottoms I don't really know even know how this ends up happening it's like when a sock loses its match we're kind of hanging on to it thinking the other sock will find its way back but it never really does consider doing audits of your Tupperware every once in a while and getting rid of anything that's missing a top or a bottom okay next up too many coffee mugs why do we as a human race think that we need an entire shelf of coffee mugs because if you walk into I feel like the average Kitchen in most people's homes they're going to have at least a shelf of coffee like they are running a full-on coffee shop we have two adults in our home who drink coffee and yet we probably have at least 10 mugs even if we had guests coming over we don't need that many mugs even if we're each having three cups of coffee a day and not washing our mug out in between we're getting a fresh mug every time we still don't need that many mugs all I'm saying is you probably don't need a whole shelf of coffee mugs and I'm speaking to myself here too because I got a whole shelf and on that topic you probably don't need every kind of specialty glassware very easy to fall into this trap where we need red wine glasses and white wine glasses we need High balls and low balls we need champagne glasses why when was the last time I poured champagne in my house maybe once a year like you could get one set of red wine glasses and you want to know what you can pour white wine into a red wine glass the truth is most beverages taste exactly the same no matter what glass you're pouring them out of next on my list is unused cookbooks now I actually am somebody who uses cookbooks I know there are some people who are like you don't need cookbooks recipes are online I agree recipes are online I don't know I buy cookbooks I do actually use them but you may have bought a cookbook and then it just didn't end up being your favorite and you don't really use it that much let yourself let go of it donate it to the Goodwill pass it on to a friend whatever last but not least is party paper supplies you may end up with like extra cups from a birthday party that you hosted I do like to keep one package of paper napkins around for if I am ever hosting but in general I really actually don't even end up using them most the time I pull out our cloth napkins or if it's just like a bunch of kids running around I'm like here's some paper towels have at it unless you truly are the hostess with the most is go ahead and let go of some of those like leftover party supplies in mismatched themes and like seasonal genres on the topic of Hosting something else your kitchen probably doesn't need is serving wear that you're only using for special occasions I'm not saying get rid of this I have specialty serving wear that I use when I host birthdays when I have Christmas but it doesn't make sense to store this in your kitchen in the prime real estate of your kitchen when you're only taking it out one or two times a year see if you can find somewhere else to store them besides right in the prime real estate of your kitchen all right my friends that does it some things that I think that your kitchen probably just doesn't need to help you free up a little bit of space in one of the most cluttered spaces in our home the kitchen as always thank you so much for stopping by and watching if you want some more tips on simplifying your kitchen I will link my simplify your kitchen video down below I hope you're having a fantastic day remember to be kind to yourself and others and I will see you all in my next video

Channel: That Practical Mom

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Length: 4min 53sec (293 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 22 2023