Wait a second! MATT’S ramen habit? You’re always begging me to make the special ramen from TikTok!!! 😂 Set the record straight! 😘

Thank you for being real and for sharing despite everything not being 'perfect'. I'd MUCH rather see real. Enjoyed it so much.

🍯🍯🍯 set in a bowl of very warm water until it returns to liquid form. Great job on organizing Momma!

I know that buying in bulk saves money and my husband is a big fan of "stocking up" but it sends my anxiety into overdrive. Unless it's something that we truly love and I know we will use, I only purchase a minimal amount. I'd rather spend a little extra than have to throw it away. Everything looks so good! Your hard work really paid off. Keeping a list of what you already have will help a lot. Organizing is so satisfying!

Love this video!! It’s so nice to see a KZfaqr normalize “normal”. Great job Meg!! I would love a cleaning routine video if you are on a cleaning schedule

Saving crystallized honey….either warm it gently in the container in the microwave in short spurts and stir until it looks normal…OR even better, take the crystallized honey and put in your mixer and whip it for about 20minutes, it’s amazing!!!!!

I loved your style, kind of like me, however I could maybe be your grandma, you are just flat out fun!

I watched you for the first time today. Great job on organizing your kitchen. I have one tip for you. Store nuts like pecans and walnuts in your freezer. They go rancid if you don’t. Have a blessed day and enjoy the fruits of your labors.

Re: your comment that keeping all the glass containers is not "declutterry" - it is. Decluttering is getting rid of CLUTTER. If you use something, it's not clutter.

My house was built in the 50's. This is absolutely how my pantry looks too, and please don't feel alone. I love your labels- I need to get a label maker! Also, re: honey, because it's crystallized you could make it into creamed honey- using stand mixer. No buy list! As someone who got dx with ADHD last week, that sounds SO helpful. Love this vlog!

Good job decluttering! It’s like an onion- you peel off one layer then you start to notice other stuff that you don’t really need that you can declutter and you eventually chip away. Having young kids and a highly simplified house has been life giving! I recommend the Minimal Mom - although I live a very different lifestyle from her, she has great tips of efficiency to help make time for what really matters!

LOVE that you kept it real!! This made me feel so much better about my very disorganized kitchen lol

Contact paper to cover shelves. Clear plastic labelled boxes to put stuff in, in your deep shelf cupboards. Then you can pull them out like draws. I did this.. total game changer.. shelves stay clean, you see what you have, so no out of date stuff and easy to take out.

Your Kiki sweater is everything 🥰

Bless your soul. No matter how much I tell myself DONT OVERBUY OR CLUTTER somehow it sneaks up. And I’m just a dog mom with a husband 😂. Definitely have to always give ourselves some grace

As an organisation nut your messy pantry looks like so much fun to me. I would love to declutter and organise a space like that. It would be so satisfying. Kudos to you for all your hard work. You did a great job.

Here for the real world content hell yeah. I've totally had cupboards like that. Only reason I don't right now is because I have 12 dozen things out that should be put away 😅

Seeing everything you have in your pantry astounds me, you are so very blessed. As someone living in Ontario Canada right now, owning that much food is an impossibility. I enjoyed watching this video 💛

Just found your channel!!! HOLY MOLY! All those baskets under $15???? 😮 NICE!!! Great 2nd hand store!!!

For my glass containers i use sharpie to label them with contents, instructions and expiry dates. Comes off easy with a dish scrubber and water.

Hi Megan!!! Love this one 🤍 my baking cabinet, the biggest game changer was medium/large sized baskets of sections of supplies. One for flours, one for sugars, one for miscellaneous and it’s actually stayed organized for a while. It’s super easy to pull the baskets out and then put everything back in and stay organized!! 🤍

This is real life! Love it! Thanks for being real!😊

I do this regularly for my parents. Thankfully, their pantry is tiny, so they can't overfill it, but they do tend to forget what they have. I check all the best-by dates and put everything that is soon to expire right at the front so that they can see it. I also make a list of things they have too much of, and stick it to their fridge next to the pad they use for their grocery lists 😂 My sister is a nurse and does the same thing with their medications.

You can get some really nice shelf liner that protects your shelves and your items too because they’re grippy! It makes them look really finished. I have them in all my kitchen and bathroom cabinets/drawers. 💕

One thing to remember about the baking mixes is that the active ingredients do break down. Like the baking soda or baking powder that's been added. I had an older box of Bisquick and I really wanted to make scones for some strawberries we brought home so I made them even though it was past the date, they didn't rise, I took a small bite they tasted really weird. So I realized yes it's sad that we didn't use them in the time frame that we bought them But they probably aren't going to work. I'm feeling really inspired by you right now cuz I know I have a brownie mix a lemon square mix the cake mix sitting in my pantry right now that I just need to throw away because they're old. Keep going I will too

This was the motivation I needed! My mom just got into town and we plan on decluttering my whole house this weekend 😊

Can I just say that I just absolutely adore you and Matt!!! And of course Rowan and Juniper! ❤

My whole pantry is as big as the first cupboard u did. I am a organised person but I totally loathe organising my pantry. Everyone in the house just chucks it back in where ever which doesn't help.... I just hate organising food cupboards! Well done u! Feels great once it's all finished.

I’ve been working on decluttering over the past few months! It feels soooo good! Great job!

You did a fantastic job congratulations 🎊 ❤

Omg I love all the studio ghibli things!!

I want to get those My Neighbor Totoro Tupperware containers now. 😁 Loving your sweatshirt by the way! ❤️

New subscriber.. this is an issue that happens to everyone of us, eventually.. thanks for the motivation!!

I’m edging on 35 weeks pregnant with baby #2 & the nesting instincts are STRONG but me and my whole family had stomach flu this week, so thank you for letting me vicariously live through this video as I recover on the couch 😊

I love your sweatshirt! We are big Kiki's Delivery Service fans at our house!

The asmr and you talking makes the perfect mix!!!❤😊

I used peel and stick floor tiles for shelf liner. More durable than contact paper and super easy to clean

I love these decluttering videos, they motivate me so much!! 💕 I try to remember that my daughter won’t remember how clean (or not😂) the house was but instead us playing together, laughing and making memories 💕 you’re a great mama and have created such a cozy, peaceful, and fun childhood for your kiddos!

I need your willpower and energy. Everything looks great!

I feel seen!! 😂 Absolutely loved this video!! Great job on all of it Megan!

I love your jumper! I loved that book!

Such motivation for declutterring. I too keep random stuff thinking I’ll use it and I never do.

These are my favorite videos (second to vlogs)! Thanks for sharing 😊

Love the sweatshirt!!!

really nice job you've done :D i am looking for inspiration for reorganizing my own kitchen and pantry and I really liked what you did. :D

Wow everything turned out great!

Thank you for always posting such great and relatable content 😊❤️

I bought a few pull outs for my cupboards but they were very expensive and I have a lot of cupoboards. For the rest of them I bought cheap metal baking sheets at the Dollar store and covered them with Contact paper and put one on each shelf and they just slide out easily. No more loosing stuff in the back.

You're doing a great job!

Love this video!

First time visitor here! You're so relatable to my undiagnosed ADHD brain! My house is 100 years old, and every cupboard (of which there aren't many) was built-in decades ago so there's no standard sizes (or right angles for that matter.) For random-sized cupboards that things tend to get shoved to the back and die, I've been getting plastic tubs or other containers and use them like drawers. The local plastics outlet had some containers without lids so they were 90% off, and I was not going to use the lids anyway. LOL

I love your sweater!!!!

I just found your channel! Girl that was some work!! Great inspiration!!

You did a fantastic job!

You did a great job!! Anna In Ohio

I decluttered our food room gave loads of food to neighbors alot started from covid scare buying they have 4 kids so I'm so glad it will be used feels good😊

Your jumper 😍 ❤

I havent finished your video yet... But drawer slides installed on the shelf and (cheap) the wooden crates from Michaels for drawers. Eventually id build shelves to pull out... But the drawer slides are an investment and the crates are a cheap solution to help you get more organized atm

Great job! 😊🐦

Great job Meg! Just found your channel today!

You could make creamed honey! Honestly I think you just put it in your mixer until it looks kinda creamy white. I remember seeing a video and it looked super easy and you can USE the honey way more easily!

Cute sweatshirt 😊

Keep in mind, only baby formula has expiration dates that are regulated by the FDA. Companies put a date on items that are actually Best By Dates. Baking mixes would of course be beyond best date but canned goods are not expired. Give a call to your local food pantry, they are experts on "expiration dates". Love your channel! PS I'm in a house built in the 1890's. Uhg!

You’re killing it! Gave me the motivation to declutter my pantry and junk drawers. Also I have the same straw problem as you, I feel like I need a different type straw for each drink 😂

I buy plastic bins at dollar tree and fill them with like items. You can pull them out like drawers. I’m 78, so I set up a system where I do certain things on certain days. The first time is a deep clean and then is easier to maintain, for instance, Monday is laundry and bathrooms. Tuesday is living room and halls, etc.

I think you did great job

i love your kitchen its so cute :)

Love this. I'm in major nesting mode due with my second any day and recently organized our FOUR junk drawers for the first time in 7 years and found my husband's expired gum from Serbia in 2016 before he even moved to the states and met me 🤦🏻‍♀️😆

I just moved in with my bf and legit the day right before you posted this I cleaned out the pantry cabinet and ohhh boy 😅 there was stuff from 2017 in that cupboard! Bf just said it was his "science experiments" 😂

There is a lot of wasted space vertically, there are those 4 legged wire shelf riser thingies, that way you can double up and utilize that space👍

our honey crystalizes too just place on a candle warmer back to normal. ill even change it to a canning jar after that.. i use a honey dip stick in canning lid. i dont screw it on or will get stuck

At our house we reset the crystalized honey by putting the container in a pot of water on the stove and heating it all thoroughly until the honey has no more crystals

to save the honey you can just heat up some water and put the container in there for a couple of minutes!

I spy Trader Joe’s corn cookie mix 3:38. I loved that mix, and think I was one of the only ones because a cashier thanked me for taking it off their hands when I purchased four at a time.

I'm going to have to watch this twice 😂 once now and once again when i clean our apartment pantry out. We are moving into our first house in like a month and the apartment pantry has been... Lets just say not given the attention it deserves for like a year and a half.

Amazon has some great shelf liners. I prefer them to contact paper as they are easy to change if necessary. Good luck 🙂

Good job

Contact paper is cheaper! Easy clean! You'd have to custom make shelves, or shallow trays that pull out for convenience

Came across your channel tonight. New subscriber now!

I learned the hard way that baking mix that is over one year expired just straight up doesn't work. The baking powder goes bad and it won't rise. You can add more baking powder though if you need to use old mix. The other thing that can happen is bugs hatching in the flour 😬

It is challenging to keep up with the house with young kids, & less time/energy. One tip is to spray all the shelves then go back to the top one to wipe down . Saves time

I died during the tea sorting.😅

Who else was hollering that she needs to eat more of the candy so the lid will fit? 🤣🤣🤣

I laughed out loud at you saying ‘can we normalize older homes being imperfect’ and then saying your house was built in the 90s. My house was built in the 80s… the 1880s! Obviously it’s been renovated since then, but it made me laugh to realize that wow, yes, the 90s were 30 years ago, and that actually IS old. So my house is positively ANCIENT by comparison… crazy!!

Please don’t get rid of the honey. Honey is so precious. Just run the jar under hot tap water and it will melt again. Also solidified honey is when you know it’s the best quality. So I just eat it as is in my tea and use a metallic honey scoop to get it out. Works great. But if you need it runny, then warm it up under hot tap water.

I think i tried to let the closed lid honey jar in a warm to slightly hot water to help melt the honey better and this has helped the honey stay sort of soft again until i am done consuming the whole jar . Plastic bottle honey i dont bother i just throw them out 😑😑😑

Great work, love a good declutter! For the baking cupboard if you dont want to paint, can you just flip the shelves over for an easy refresh?

While the rest of our home is uber minimal....the kitchen is a working kitchen, we prep, we have ducks, chickens, goats and assorted other 4 legged creatures that depend upon us . We can, dehydrate and freeze dry. we vaccume seal a LOT. We make our own pasta, butter etc..at 63 the kitchen aid must live on the counter now. It is possible to have all of that (if your kitchen storage space is good) and not even look a bit cluttered. It is a regular task, rotating,labeling and moving into the other pantry (a huge cedar lined walk in closet in my office)..I know a lot of people think there is no reason to have a pressure canner or a dehydrator or even a kitchen aid. If you do not cook daily...even monthly..maybe not. But if you use it a few times a week...it IS essential. A coffee pot is not essential to us, we use a french press...

Random passerby, but thought to leave a comment since a family member raises bees. If your honey is natural (no additives, I mention that because you add 3000 chemical ingredients to stuff in the US, which will alter the properties), you don't need to "save" it, it will survive the apocalypse & still be eatable. Depending on how cold it is, natural honey will become paste like in a couple months max after being collected from the beehives. That preserves it actually. What companies do to make it liquid is usually to heat it at high temps, which sadly makes it loose most of its benefits. If you want to make it liquid again, put it in warm (no too hot) water if you have to. Otherwise, I recommend collecting it in a jar you can dip a small wooden spoon in (yes wood, metal affects the properties of honey & alters taste) & spreading it on warm bread if you want to eat it & dislike the thicker consistency.

Amazon has some drawer slide outs that don’t have to be drilled(they’re adhesive) & has lots of good reviews! Don’t think they’re overly expensive either!

When you do get your containers, look into clear, acrylic bins. Yes they are pricier but WELL WORTH IT. I have done them in my home and zero regrets.

if you are doing a mud kitchen you should keep tea bags for your kids to use in it!

I bought a metal basket off of Wayfair for $20. It is 5x16x24 and it fits under my sink, from front to back. It has handles on it so I can pull it out like a drawer slide. Something not as wide could work for you without breaking the bank.

To save on the decanting mess that would get on the counter I do my decanting in the sink. Easily contains the mess and washes down the drain.

You can find more detail by just googling but my dad, a bee keeper, gets his honey back into a liquid by warming the jar in hot water. The key is to warm it slowly to not kill the good properties in the honey. Enjoy!

A couple times a year I do a pantry/freezer challenge. Do it for two weeks. Meal plan with what I have on hand. The shop for only the things I don’t have but need for a recipe.

I hadn’t seen the last name Acuna since I was in 1st grade in the mid 90’s when it was my teachers last name. This is my first time watching your videos since the name caught my eye lol

When you said you wanted to normalize older homes I felt so seen! My house was built in 1939 and has patched plaster and all kinds of old repairs. And then you said your house is from the 90s and I laughed! It's funny how wide the span of "older homes" is.

oh don't be embarrassed, I threw away last week a box of spices mix for some chicken meal that expired in 2004! and yes It followed me when I moved in 2014! 😱🤯 Anyway, I do micro decluttering like the wonderful book of Shira Gill (minimalista) suggested, decluttering one drawer at a time so that way you'll avoid overwhelming and I'm almost through decluttering my entire kitchen. just need to go through my spice drawer. Yes, pull-out drawers are a blast ( we have an IKEA kitchen). Being able to see immediately what you have when you pull out the drawer is key for me. I also have some plastic map ( VARIERA) on every bottom of my drawers, to easily keep them clean and to avoid the pots and stuff from slipping. I would strongly recommend some pull-out drawers for your baking cabinet, since you have products behind some others, it seems difficult to know what you have which makes it extra difficult to reach them and put it back when you're tired from all the baking. Also a good advice from the book, own ONE of each type of stuff. Did I spot 3 silicon claws tongs? ( may be you declutter some of them). Decluttering and finding a system that works for you is difficult and it is a journey... 'own less it's easier to maintain' has become my new mojo :-) If you can read French I also recommend the book 'l'ecologie d'interieur' from @larrangeuse. After reading it I don't feel the need to buy anything that is not essential anymore!!! Tomorrow I'm going through my seeds drawer because yes, they expired too and it's a hot mess where I have no good idea of what I have!

I don’t know if this was mentioned but turn your shelves round . Front to back and bottom to top. Fresh edges and unused surface