My Kitchen Command Center

Hi Friends,
Today I'm sharing a quick simple project I did about a month ago that I am completely in LOVE with!  It's a kitchen command center.  What is a kitchen command center?  Glad you asked!  It's the place to keep your calendar, shopping lists, chores for the kids, really anything you use all the time in one convenient place!

Now if you go to Pinterest there are a million amazing and cute kitchen command centers that are super cute and super pricy!

I had a couple of issues on my kitchen command center: I have no wall space in my kitchen which only left me with the side of my fridge to use.  The fridge presents all kinds of challenges because you can't screw or nail anything to the fridge so everything must be magnetic or able to be held up by a magnet!

The end result turned out so good and I'll go through each piece with you!  But first let me share a couple overview things with you:

• The labels you see: Menu, Chores, Calendar, and so on I printed on line I could have used chalkboard labels which would have been cute too!  (might still do that!)  
• I used a Wiki black and white polk a dot tape to divide all the sections.  Originally I just put it all up without the Wiki tape, but my OCD head couldn't handle it, I needed sections clearly marked out!  
• Yes, I know we live in the digital age, but I still need a paper calendar.  The one on my fridge does not match my command center, but I've used it all year and can't switch now and unfortunate thing that will drive this OCD girl nuts until January!  
• The bottom pocket I also bought from Target and hung with magnet hooks, it's just a place to keep paperwork I need.  

Alright now I'll go through each of these sections with you!

Menu: This is a white board magnet menu I bought at Target, it's perfect as I can plan out the meals for the week.  I plan out our meals and add ingredients I need right to the shopping lists, that I'll show you in a minute.

 Shopping List: You can see in the top picture I have 3 separate shopping lists : Costco, Whole Foods, and Other, these are chalkboard labels that I stuck right on my fridge!  These lists I found in the dollar bins at target. I tore them up, there are only a few sheets under each section so that the magnet could hold it up (again I'm working with a fridge here!)  As I run out of items throughout the week I put them on these lists and then when I'm ready to head to costco I  just tear off the list and take it with me!  I also add items to the list as I'm planning our weekly food.  Pretty simple!  And the best part - my husband and kids add things to the list as they run out of things!  So nice!

 Chores: I have done chore systems 800 ways and the moment I'm needing simple chore life and kids helping for no reward, just simply because they are members of this house and we all pitch in together.  I printed these chores from my computer, laminated them (if you don't have a laminator packing tape is a great solution!) and then threw a magnet on the back!  Our family chores include: Taking out the trash, cleaning the bathroom, bringing dirty laundry to the laundry room, bringing dirty sheets to the laundry room, taking clean clothes back to bedrooms, folding laundry, emptying the dishwasher, sweeping the floors, cleaning bedroom, and cleaning the playroom.  Once the chore has been completed my children move the chore off the board and onto the bucket I'll show you next!

Bucket of Pens & Chores: This certainly didn't need it's own label, I'm not that OCD (no comment! LOL) I needed a place to keep a pen, white board markers and the chore cards as my children completed them.  Again I found this bucket in the dollar section at target and stuck it on a magnet hook.  Now everything I could need is in one easy to find place!

 Verse: I make it a goal to learn at least 1 verse a week, currently I'm going through Colossians Chapter 3 one verse at a time.  I print the verse multiple times and stick it up everywhere - the mirror in the bathroom, my washing machine, the coffee maker, and now on my kitchen command center too!  I stink at memorizing and if it isn't posted everywhere for me to read, I'll completely forget to memorize! I have all of Chapter 3 printed on cards like this and they are in that bottom pocket on the command center so I'm ready to add on the next one!

Well, there you have it, my happy little command center, don't know how I lived without it for so long!  This was a very inexpensive project that has brought so much order to my home!  I'm still swooning over it!

More OCD projects to come!
Jenny