Organised mum claims easy one-step decluttering hack keeps her cupboards tidy – and means she NEVER wastes food
ANY busy mum would agree that an organised home is a stress-free home, so it's only natural to want to find novice ways to keep things in check.
A super organised Aussie mum seems to have found the answer - and claims it's all in the labelling.
Christine Krkach, founder of recently shared with her decluterring hack that will eventually save you both time and money.
She insists that labelling everything will allow you to know exactly what you have so that nothing goes to waste.
When it comes to food and other items that have an expiry date - such as medicines and make-up - she suggests implementing a labelled colour coded system that will allow use up anything within the recommended time and expose of anything that's reached it's used by date.
On your food containers, such as jars and sauces, Christine says to place a dot sticker on the lid of each of them, and every time you pick up the container you will see it's expiry - which will encourage you to use it up and, in turn, create waste less.
Items in your fridge are a little different, but the decluttering queen still suggests labelling is your best bet.
If you have containers of left over food, use a chalkboard marker to write on the plastic or glass to take note of the day you popped it in there, this will help you use it up before it expires and encourage less wastage.
She also says to always check the packaging at the back of your products as soon as you open it as some say “consume within” a certain time frame - ie five days or four weeks.
But as most would forget to continually check, a visible label on the item would do the trick.
A coloured system, however, works best on things such as medicine as it also has an expiry but can last over a couple of years.
She says to dedicate a colour for each year, and then on the coloured label you can write the month it expires.
So if you allocate yellow stickers for 2020, and green for the following year, for example, you'll know to use up those with the yellow label first.
The same concept can easily be applied to some of your toiletries or make-up items that can sit in your cupboards for long periods of time.
Christine says that while they don't necessarily have a known used by date, there is a little symbol with a dish and a number, which represents when it will expire.
The brains behind the hack is the founder of THE o.c.d by Christine, where she shares lots of ideas and inspiration on home organisation, cleaning and decluttering - so we take her word for it.
Her page currently boasts 73k followers, with many eager to learn her clever ways.
The clever labelling trick has also been used by one bloke who shared the hack on Twitter.
He revealed his "little lockdown innovation" which had him write the expiry dates on the end of the packs of meat and fish.
He claimed this allowed him to "see at a glance what needs eating today/ tomorrow" - and it's genius really.
His post has attracted a lot of attention online with one person even referring to the idea as "life-changing".
The comment read:"This is simple, yet life-changing."
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