There is a certain kind of quiet that settles over a house when the husband loads the kids into the car for a grocery run. For one TikTok mom, that quiet was an invitation. She grabbed a cardboard box, walked into her kitchen, and set herself a goal: pull at least 100 things out of her cabinets before anyone got home.
The mom, who posts as @logancrake, says she started decluttering her house recently and now it is all she wants to do. “Any chance I get to have time to go through, like, a whole area, I’m taking it,” she says in her video. Her husband had just taken the kids to the grocery store, so the kitchen was hers.
She admits right up front that she does not truly need to hit a number. “I know I don’t need to do the number, but it helps, and I like doing it, so we’re gonna keep it up,” she says. Then she counts out loud, item by item, starting with two random forks that go with nothing.
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One Cabinet At A Time, One Number At A Time
The counting is the heart of the video, and anyone who has ever tried to clear out a kitchen will recognize the rhythm of it. She calls out numbers as she pulls things from shelves, loses her place more than once, and starts over from wherever she thinks she left off. At one point she stops and asks herself, “What am I on?” At another she says she has “actually no idea” what number she has reached.
Along the way she runs into the kind of mystery items every kitchen collects. She wonders aloud where all this stuff came from as the count climbs past 28. A little later she looks at another stretch of cabinet and says, “We went through this not too long ago, so maybe I’ll just go through this really quick.” Even a space she cleaned recently, it turns out, had more to give.
The mom also asks her followers a question that parents will understand. “Real question, where do you put y’all’s knives when you have kids?” she says. In her house, the knives have to live up high because the little ones get into the drawers. That upper shelf is also where the family keeps its food storage containers, which she describes as a bit of a mess but proudly points out is all one big collection of tubware.
Not every corner of the kitchen got the same treatment. When she reaches one section, she warns her audience, “You do not wanna see over here. You don’t wanna see it. I promise.” Then she takes a breath, asks if she is ready, and keeps going. By the time she hits the end of the count, she is calling out numbers well past 100 and even says, “Look how pretty this is.”
What 100 Things Actually Looks Like
When the last cabinet door closes, she announces that she cleared more than 100 things. She says she is happy with what is left down low, where the big appliances the family really uses now have room to breathe. She decides not to tackle one more spot that day, saying simply, “Not gonna do that today.”
The job is not finished, though, and she knows it. “We got over 100 things, so now I need to dispose of them correctly, whether it’s like, trash or donation or wherever it’s gonna go,” she says. She adds that she still needs to do one more cabinet and the pantry, and that she is “a little scared” about the pantry.
Her caption sums up the mood: she jokes that she is not ready for the next cabinet, but thinks this one was among the easiest yet. That is worth noticing. Kitchen cabinets tend to hold the least emotional stuff in the house, which is exactly why a kitchen is such a smart place to start.
Try The Counting Trick In Your Own Kitchen
You do not need a free afternoon or a rented dumpster to copy her approach. A box, a timer, and a target number are enough to get moving. Here is how to make a count-based purge work for you.
- Pick a number you can reach. A target of 25 or 50 works as well as 100 for a smaller kitchen, and you can raise it next time.
- Start with the easy wins. Duplicate utensils, mismatched lids, cracked plastic containers, expired spices, and takeout menus all count, and none of them take any deliberation.
- Count out loud or tally on paper. Losing your place is fine. The point is that every item you remove feels like progress.
- Move the box out of the kitchen the same day. Items that linger on the counter have a way of sneaking back into cabinets.
- Sort the box into trash, donation, and sell piles right away, then drop the donations in your car so they leave with you on your next errand.
Keep The Knives Up And The Habit Going
Her question about knives is a reminder that decluttering with kids in the house comes with extra rules. Sharp tools, breakable glass, and small parts all need a home that little hands cannot reach. When you clear out a cabinet, think about which shelf each remaining item belongs on, and keep the things you reach for daily at an easy height.
It also helps to treat decluttering as a series of short sessions rather than one giant weekend. This mom grabbed her window while the house was empty, finished a whole area, and stopped. She did not wait for a perfect day, and she did not try to do the pantry on the same afternoon. That is a pace most families can actually sustain.
If you try this yourself, take a quick photo of the empty shelf when you finish. It is a small reward, and it keeps you going when the next cabinet looks scarier than the last. As this mom shows, the next one is always a little scary, and it still gets done one number at a time.
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