Removing all widgets from the Sidebar

I would like to remove all widgets from the sidebar. The only thing I want to appear on the left side of the screen is the circle with the site title in it, and the names of all my pages. However, if I just remove all of the widgets, 3 boxes automatically appear at the bottom of the sidebar: Search, Archives, and Meta. I don’t want any of these there. The best solution I have come up with is to add a blank Text widget, but this leaves a random-looking box in the sidebar. Is there any way to remove all the widgets without the Search/Archives/Meta boxes appearing?