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I am binge watching your videos since I discovered your channel a couple of weeks ago. As a consequence, I got rid of random junk, decluttered my kids' toys, junk drawer, bathroom, kitchen, organized our cabinets, shredded old paper clutter. Now it takes me less than an hour to clean my whole apartment, and my laundry is done daily. Thank you!

We don't have pantries in the UK either. Having stocked up massively a few years ago, I spent a year eating out of date food, never again. Now my one food cupboard is half empty, mainly eating meat, cheese and eggs so there's zero waste now. Feels freeing to not have to manage stored food.

in Philippines, pantry is not a typical part of the house. most household lives in a community where you can easily buy what you need. and we call it sari-sari store. it’s a small grocery that allows you to buy a small portion of your needs at home.

I watched you empty the dishwasher, with things going right to their designated spot, no need to move anything or to interrupt the flow. That's what decluttering is for. I am getting there too & it does feel good!

Big fan of your decluttering videos❤I love it when you show the trash bags at the end to display how much progress you’ve made!

Hi Catherine! I don’t have a big pantry just a couple of cabinets with pull out shelves. I would love a walk in pantry one day! I totally agree with you that cleaning is so much easier with less stuff! It makes it so much more enjoyable too! Hope you are having a great week!

Your totally normal, and people who say not nice things tgey are in denial. You are right, along with the rest if us it's totally hard to keep up on things! Love how real you really are.

I'm in Western PA United States. My pantry is literally the broom closet. I moved the broom and dust pan outside my back door and added 5 shelves to the closet. We don't eat a lot of processed food or snacks so my pantry is mostly baking supplies and spices. Odd things like bread crumbs and pasta. Then I have a section devoted to my canning supplies. I'm noticing the trend of the larger the pantry the more it's filled with processed food and snacks.

I live in Canada. I'm 62 years old and have lived in several places in Canada and the US. I've never lived in a place with a pantry. I think the need for a pantry has to do with the rise of snack foods. My parents never bought them, I never bought them for my kids, and we don't buy them for ourselves.

I live in the south and me and my husband decided to renovate a strange room extended from our living room into another room, this room was similar to a den but we already had a den with a built in fireplace so we decided to add to the wall and close it off. This room was weird, I’m not sure what it was originally meant for but it had a cut out walk away, about two standard size doors wide, and a door off to the back of the room that connected to the dining room and kitchen. My home is an open concept with the exception of this room. We closed it off and added a door to the frame that was already there so we use it as an extension to the kitchen as food storage, a deep freezer, extra appliances, extra kitchen supplies, extra paper towels, cat food/dog food; things like that. I call it my pantry but it is definitely a bedroom sized room but with no closet inside. I for sure know this room is unique but it’s is so useful as we do not have a garage or a basement or attic so the extra storage is necessary and with it being inside the house and just another room, it’s safe for food of all kinds and we store everything on ikea Billy shelves, I have about four of them for food items, and one for tupperware and kids travel cups and lunch boxes.

I live in São Paulo, Brazil. Here is not so common to have a pantry, unless you are very rich and live in a huge house. People normally keep their food in cupboards. But for sure is a dream! Btw, love your videos! ❤

I switched to a whole foods plant based (wfpb) diet last year (no meat, no dairy, low/no added oils) and my total cholesterol dropped 20 percent, ldl dropped 40 points. No meds, just changed what I ate. Forks Over Knives has a great website and recipes.

I live in the states and have never lived anywhere with a pantry. My family had to get creative with the space we had in different kitchens. Now that I'm married, we don't have a pantry, so definitely have to improvise. Maybe one day I'll get a pantry 😅

Love the refrigerator and the light warmer thingy.

Hi! I live in Portugal and i do have a pantry, but use it for other things. Food goes in the cupboards. Here's a tip - empty your packages to regular garbage and then recycle the package. I use a platic bag, empty everything into that and throw it away in common garbage and the recycle the packaging. Hope it helps!

I live in SF and our pantry is a narrow tall cabinet next to our fridge, probably 1/3 of the width of your pantry

hey girl! you can definitely remove that sticky stuff with just a heat gun or blow dryer! this method is also useful for removing stickers from secondhand treasures! hope this helps!

Eat black beans everyday. You can make them into a salad with some veggies & ex italian dressing taste pretty good. Or add to cooked items

Someone in my family had serious cholesterol issues (alongside type 2 diabetes & other stuff which tend to follow sadly), to the point of taking a lot of medication. Problem was, the side effects of medications were so bad, his organs were in really bad shape. So alongside a progressive change in diet to no more processed anything basically & healthy meals, we tried organic supplements. For cholesterol, we used red rice yeast. It is scientifically proven to work on that. After 6 months he was doing a lot better et since a year later, he has had an under the limits cholesterol, with no medication. He keeps taking the red rice yeast & doesn't eat fatty food. I hesitated to write this because I know that the supplements are not regulated in the US & there is a lot of sometimes very dangerous snake oil sold. I live in France, where I can buy highly regulated organic supplements. Plant based supplements are not miracle workers. They require a change in habits, the right dosage & time to work, & for some things like diabetes, there is still no good enough alternative to modern medicine. EDIT Just got to the part where you mention being a big cheese family. You need to switch to low cholesterol, less processed cheeses.

I feel like making videos about how to avoid having to declutter all together and address the overconsumption in our society would also be helpful. Especially from moms? I feel like every other video I see is decluttering and destressing but do we actually know how to avoid that stress to begin with?

Love your videos, Catherine! ❤ we shop for a week or two as well we don’t bulk shop since it’s just the three of us (2 adults, 1 toddler). Your pantry is massive compared to ours! We live in a condo and we have no pantry, so we designated 1 cabinet for food that’s probably meant for dishes 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thats was a satisfying clean out of the fridge!

Living in the states, the house that I grew up in didn't have a pantry. We had shelves on the walls leading down into the basement that we used as the pantry, and we put a small cabinet against the wall in the hallway going into the kitchen. We moved to another house without a pantry, but it had a breakfast nook that we used as a pantry because it was way too small for a breakfast nook. We moved out of state a few years ago, into an apartment with a long narrow pantry next to the fridge, and we hated it because you couldn't reach the items in the back, so we turned the closet into a pantry with a plastic shelving unit. At the beginning of COVID lockdown, we moved into a house with a pantry that's nothing more than a glorified cabinet with wire shelves, and we hate it because it's small. We bought some more cabinetry to line the bare wal to use as a pantry. Right now there's a huge baker's rack that we use for extra storage.

🇫🇷 I live in France, my groceries stuff fits into a small IVAR cupboard from IKEA. I have my groceries delivered once every two weeks and I live with my partner, who cooks a lot. Thanks for your video 🥰

I really enjoy the cluttering ! I am on a decluttering journey this year and feel so much better after the junk is gone! I live in KS in a 100 year old house and we do not have a pantry. I think not having a pa try helps cut down on overbuying and lets us use what we have first. Thanks for the great content!

HI there! Love your decluttering videos! So relatable! I live in Oregon in an apartment and don't have a pantry but I use these 2 Ikea cabinets side by side as my pantry in the dining room and it works out great. To lower cholesterol....eat more of a veggies and fruits! I feel like that's the cure all for almost everything.

We live in an older apartment so our pantry is the 3 shorter cupboards above our sink. They interconnect and have one shelf.

Have you tried a fish oil supplement? I worked with a naturopathic doctor for my son and they recommended Barlean’s fish oil, which is like a fruity smoothie. You take a spoonful or you can mix it in something. I would say it has a small tinge of fish taste but I think it tastes good and it’s a small amount to take. I’ve also tried fish oil gummies and they were too fishy!

Very motivating. Great job🎉😂❤

On the topic of Cholesterol , which is highly controversial (warning) .... we chucked out ALL our seed oils(vegetable oil) , avocado oils, olive oils, coconut oils and started cooking with JUST lard (pig fat) and tallow (Beef fat) bloating stopped, Cholesterol went down, blood pressure went normal - check your labels on all foods, including bottles/sauces and see how much vegetable oil is in everything...we as humans cannot process oils pressed from seeds....you'd think the lard and tallow will clog your arteries, however it doesn't as the body can process it, do some research, you'd be surprised. as for your Pantry, im outside the US, homes were larger up until the 90's and all had big pantries, walk in and other - these days they are building these small garage size match box apartments and pantries are not an option anymore, so you only see them in older homes. Rinsing your dishes are just fine, else your dishwasher smells more and catches things like spaghetti, veggies etc which is disgusting to clean by hand- even though the instructions state "give your dishwasher some dirt to wash" so no judgement there. I think we all have a catch-all area somewhere in our home, for me its a deep drawer - shh, dont tell anyone. Your home looks great - great job - keep it up!

I love cleaning out my pantry, it is a closet in the hallway, but it works for us,,love an organized refrigerator..thanks for sharing

I live in Ohio in a new house we built, I have a walk-in pantry that I use every part of. I can’t imagine having something smaller!

I’m from Sweden and our ”pantry” is two upper cabinets and one of the two above the fridge. That’s not a lot of space for a family of 4 but we do mealprep so it works out for us. I need to do a ”pantry” declutter as well, it’s mostly throwing out everything we won’t use. We do prioritize making sure we eat the fruit, vegetables and meat, as you mentioned.

The Scentsy warmer is so cute! I live in an older home with no pantry. So I have a cabinet dedicated to snacks and cans, the upper shelf of another cabinet for rice and dry mixes, and a narrow shelf in a back room for overstock. Have to get creative and spread it out in a small, old house 😂❤

I used to have a full walk in pantry that was huge! Our new house doesn't have a pantry, just some cabinets we can use for food... It's the one thing I wish we had in our new house!

Our pantry is walk in, but more like step in. But it does have a lot of shelves. We don't have many snacks other than my husband tends to have a lot for himself that I don't eat. The fact that your shelves are spaced nicely w/out a lost of lost air space you can get a lot in yours, it's quite nice!

Our pantry is non-existent; I have used the linen closet, or a bookcase in a spare room. Neither are ideal so have been watching and gaining inspiration from your channel about cupboard organizing. Of course, I'm in a 90 year old house in Virginia and it's quite small and they didn't use storage then the way we do now, so it' isn't any wonder that there isn't space.

Hi new to your channel ❤ Southeastern Indiana is where my Cowboy and I live, your pantry is not big, but its very usable ❤ my Cowboy built our Pantry from a closet we didn't use in our attached garage with plywood sheets 3/4 inch thick, i canned our garden vegetables and paper towels and TP storage.

Catherine, Great job keeping it real and simplified! My total pantry capacity is roughly the same as yours but in a different configuration. LOVE your lighthouse!!😊

I am SO with you on the expiration dates. I throw it away even if just a few days past!!!!

I'm in Vancouver BC and we don't have a built-in pantry. We bought a narrow one from Ikea for baking supplies and other food items

G'day from Australia Catherine! I have a couple of open cabinets where I have my pantry goods in labelled shallow trays. I have a 70y.o. kitchen and I don't have a pantry. I dont have a basement. We deliberately bought a small upright fridge/freezer, so wed never lose things in the back, coz we couldnt see it. Also has the advantage that hubbie doesnt buy unnecessary condiments.

I totally agree, when you have less stuff you can manage your spaces faster. I am in the same with expired condiments. When you go through it's still good but then weeks/mos go by and now it's expired. I live in Calgary, AB Canada and my pantry is the same size as yours. I get jealous when I see the walk-in huge pantry too. /As I see it, you don't have more than you can manage. Thanks for sharing and enjoying your content as always.

I'm in SC and our house is a fairly new build (3 years). Our pantry is about the same size as yours, but not as deep. I actually prefer it. We aren't bulk shoppers either, and less pantry space means nothing gets hidden and forgotten!

Just a tip for the cuties or clementines. Peal the whole bag n store all of them in a glass jar or container. My kids will go through a bag or two in a week now n I never have any that rotten bc you know there’s always a few that gets missed

Living in the UK most people sadly don’t have pantries. They just build our kitchens without them, which is frustrating. So my food is spread between a load of kitchen cupboards atm.

Thank you for posting... sitting here avoiding dealing with my mess of a house... feeling paralyzed. Hoping this helps me move.

When my cholesterol went high I started the South Beach diet per my doctors recommendation. I ate bacon/eggs every morning, full fat salad dressing on my salads, ate meats/lower carb vegetables and my cholesterol went down FAST.

We leave in France and we have no pantry, as the majority of the population. We use our kitchen cabinets to keep products.

I live in Houston,Texas. We have a little laundry room off the kitchen. One side is a washer and dryer and the other side is a closet with bifold doors and my husband put shelves in it and it’s our pantry (took the doors off). We have a galley style kitchen with very, very limited cupboards and cabinets.

We don’t have a pantry, and I’m in the USA. We just use shelves in our mudroom for overstock, and keep a snack bin for the kids in the kitchen.

I live in the US but have an older home with 2 cabinets and 2 drawers. I use my china hutches for dishes and turned out servants staircase into a small pantry. So that makes up a lot of our storage for the kitchen.

Hi Catherine, I live in Canberra, the capital of Australia and I have a nice floor to ceiling pantry which is the perfect size for me, it fits all my food with room to spare. Really enjoy your videos!!

Good job on getting rid of the processed stuff. Most children I know no longer eat fruit and veg, or very little.

Im in Idaho and dont have a pantry. My home is older though and I feel like newer homes here do. But I prefer it this way. I cant keep a lot of food on hand so it doesnt go bad.

I live in southern Oklahoma. I would say my pantry is about 3’ wide & 3’ deep. Floor to ceiling maybe 8’ tall. The house was built in the ‘80s. It’s works good enough. I store extra hosting stuff & the like up top. Some kitchen appliances on bottom.

One way I deal with the fridge is a weekly clean out on trash night. Before I set out the trash cans I just run quickly through my fridge and get rid of anything that I won't be eating or has gone bad. I also include a leftover night and a "random" meal night on my weekly meal plan so that helps to address leftovers and random ingredients

The dates are normally best before dates. I use most products well after the dates. Never been sick as a result. Not judging as I'm not living your life.

My pantry is a large room combined with my laundry room. I’d say mine is about 2/3 the size of your primary bedroom. I live in South Texas.

I had super-high cholesterol (over 300) for a while. CholestOff did lower it a bit, but not enough. I tried Red Yeast Rice, but my liver panel came back elevated (might not be a problem for some, but it was for me). Eventually gave in and started a statin and BAM. Down 100 points in 3 months! For the record, we eat largely paleo - lean meats, veggies and 95% whole unprocessed foods. I just have a genetic predisposition for high cholesterol.

Cath, best to give up cheese to reduce cholesterol - sadly! But it’s true. 😅

I started watching the video and thought, oh my pantry is about that size. And then you opened the upper portion and I thought, oh nevermind 😅 I live in the US.

New subbie! I really enjoyed watching this declutter

Fiber is super helpful! (Fruits, veg, beans, whole grains, oatmeal) Fiber binds to cholesterol to carry it out of your body. If you don’t like fish try a fish oil supplement. Also limiting any coconut based products. They are high in saturated fat the one that’s bad for cholesterol

to lower your cholesterol , use flax seeds in your food.

We have that same fridge and we are a cheese family too, where you put your cheese is where we put our fruit. on the right hand side of the fruit we put vegetables and then on the bottom drawer we put cheese and lunch meat type items.

If you want your cholesterol in order, you HAVE to cut out cheese, sour cream, ranch and stuff like that 😬 my dad reduced his by eating clean cooked meat and vegetables from home cooked soupsm

I live in Pennsylvania and we do have a tall floor to ceiling cabinet that is my pantry. It is about 35 inches wide. that is what most house in my friends/family have in Pa. The walk in pantry that is u shaped and floor to ceiling is in a lot of newer builds in this state.

❤❤❤ Hi my name is Ivanka We - me and my husband have been on organic food eating since January And we completely reduced SUGAR It helps lose weight Everything contains sugar specifically in the US You can definitely do it 😊

I live in Los Angeles. I have not had a proper pantry in all 3 of the apartments that I've been in in the last 15 years. And they are nice luxury apartments that are relatively new. I have always stored my food in kitchen cabinets, or at the last apartment I bought a bookshelf and a sideboard and used them as my "pantry"

Our house is 1550 sq. ft. We have a walk-in pantry with shelves on two of the three sides. Two adults can fit but you have to reach around the other to get something - so it's not huge. But it is to us! We had a very small one in our first house. However, I still struggle with organizing it.

The lighthouse lamp is very cute. I recommend cutting off the sticky label

In Belgium few houses have pantry's. I just have 1 shelf in my laundry room for food and 1 shelf in the living room kabinet for snacks

Good job Catherine

Hi Catherine! I am watching a video from a year ago! I just wanted to say just call it a utility drawer! I have always had one and called it a junk drawer..lol. but maybe utility drawer sounds better to people, I don't know, people complain about the dumbest things! Haha!

I live in an 820 sq ft apartment in N. Central Texas, I have a pantry in a room with a washer and dryer, the double shelves are all around the small room with a wooden bi-fold door. I cannot use it for food because it's gets warm from the washer and dryer running so very bad design. 😕 So it stores my appliances, plastic wrap, baggies, foil and linens. Lol

I’m in the Midwest and we have a pantry that’s about the size of a linen closet. The bottom half has our garbage cans though so the whole thing isn’t used for food. My parents use a coat closet off of their kitchen as their panty, and my in laws have a large walk in pantry about the size of a powder room. They have a larger house though

The amount of food you threw away is breaking my heart. And your wallet

Love the video! And I feel the paper pile. Lol 🙄

I live in Germany. Homes here generally have no built in storage at all so pantries are rare and usually smaller than yours. Kitchens here are tiny compared to those in the US. My pantry is one tallish (5 ft. high, 1.5 ft. wide, 1.5 ft. deep) cupboard in my kitchen with pull-out shelves.

Live in Florida, and neither of my 2 homes had a pantry until I remodeled the kitchen and had small pantries added in both homes. My current home (a townhome at 1500 sq ft) is larger than my old home (840 sq ft), but the kitchen is half the size and is a 'U' shape. In both homes, I took space from the dining room for the pantry. In my current home, I could have put in a larger pantry, but I had to put in a storage closet for brooms, mops, and cleaning supplies. Who builds a home with zero storage space for a vacuum, mop, broom. There is no closet downstairs. I have almost double the square footage, but there is no storage. The vacuum, it just sits by my desk in the dining room.

Cute seaglass picture !

My husband’s a cardiologist and he’s pretty adamant about not having red meat in our house on a regular basis. We do have the occasional beef burger (a few times a year) but aside from that we avoid red meat. A good way to help lower cholesterol aside from that is to avoid egg yolk. Try eating whole grains, low fat milk, nuts, fruits and veg. And if you don’t like fish you could add in a fish oil tablet instead to increase your omega 3’s

I'm the same with expiration dates. I throw it away as to me, it is an indication that it is not wise to use it even on the date and after.❤ loved the video - very encouraging to do my pantry ❤

Make little snack baggies for friends/other moms/churches with the snacks your son didn't like! That way nothing goes to waste and it feels good to bless someone else!

I take expire food disgarded. Too

I love light houses

Hey Catherine, I like Greece, and we don't even have pantries!!!! I've never seen one here, if you're lucky you might have a lot of cabinets to put stuff in...😂

I’m in western Canada and I’m in a two bedroom apartment and I don’t have a pantry 👍🏼😉🇨🇦❤️

Try Piper brand gummies for cholesterol control

If it helps anyone motivate to clean their fridge - what I've been doing is going through quickly and dumping out everything that's gone bad and consolidating all items onto all but one shelf. That shelf I pull out of the fridge and give a good scrub in the sink and let air dry. For some reason I find it sooo much easier to wash and spray things down in the sink versus spraying and wiping things out or off. Sticking my whole arm in the fridge and trying to get any crumbs or dust out of the corners with a paper towel/rag just feels so hard, but rinsing something off in the sink feels easy. Let it air dry and stick it back in and then eventually repeat that process but with the next shelf. Its a strange process maybe but it results in me getting it done 🤷🏻‍♀😄

I had to pause your video and go clean out my fridge. A handful of out-dated items gone.

Oatmeal for your cholesterol. Regular oatmeal, not the instant stuff. Apples are good also, as well as Brussel sprouts.

Ohio, and we don’t have a pantry 😅😅 we use a couple kitchen cabinets as such

Pantries are probably a reflection on the square footage of your house and the age of it. Putting parishables in plain sight would probably have them eaten before expiring. Kids never search.

i will be honest my house doesn’t even have a pantry we actually converted our coat closet by our front door to our pantry…..there are actually a few houses in our subdivision that doesn’t have one however it is an “older” subdivision and we live in georgia

I have just 2-3 cupboards for our pantry items, just me and my 10 y old boy in Finland

Try using lemon essential oil to get the sticky residue off with a scraper/ one of those tools you can use on the counters to get stuck on food or whatever! Idk what it’s called.

USA - do not have a pantry but have a basement so I have a shelving unit in the basement for dry goods!