One new cabinet cart thingy

This thing has served us well but I never really liked it. The old homeowners left it behind & we used it to store bread, chips, napkins & a few platters. We also used the top part for our microwave before we got our over the range one.

I finally found a replacement that was similar to how I want my kitchen to someday look.

It's 48 inch length seemed so much larger in my head but I still like it 😃 

The only thing I couldn't fit in were 2 plastic serving trays that I mainly use in summer so they are on top for now & I'm not sure if I'm leaving my galloping gourmet up there.

Pantry cleaning

Yikes! I just spent the last hour or so deep cleaning our big pantry/coat closet (don't ask-I don't like the shared space!)

Things I threw out: 

3 boxes of cereal

2 boxes of granola bars

2 boxes of Cookie Monster alphabet cookies (for the longest time those were the only cookies my son would eat & not everyone sold them 😡)

2 boxes of instant breakfast

1 box of confectioners sugar 

2 boxes of brown sugar &

3 jars of jelly-the strawberry was the oldest item found, it expired in 2013. Everything else was between August & December.