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5 Kitchen Cabinet Organizing Tips
by Fisher Swanson
Here are five tips to help bring sanity to your kitchen
cabinets.
Clean Your Cabinets
One great way to keep your kitchen cabinets organized is to
clean them out every couple of months. That allows you to keep stock of what's
in them and get rid of anything that is past its prime or has damaged packaging.
Containers with damaged packaging that leak food can attract pest like ants,
cockroaches and mice.
Organizing Your Cabinets
After cleaning out your cabinets, put everything back in a well
organized way. Items that you don't use very often, put towards the back, while
having frequently used items within reach. Try to group "like items" together.
If you know where to reach for specific ingredients it will save you time in the
kitchen. Train everyone in your house to put items back where they got them.
Remembering Where Stuff Is
If you tend to have a hard time finding things that are stashed
away in the back of your cabinets, place an inventory list on the inside of the
cabinet door. You can even draw a square and diagram where items are likely to
be located. A diagram may also help inform other family members where to put
things away, which could save you headaches down the road.
Grocery List
Attach a piece of paper to the inside of the cabinet door to
write down items as you run out of them. Then you can reference it when you put
together your grocery list. This is very useful if other people use the kitchen
as well, everyone will know that you have ran out of something and won't spend a
half hour looking for it.
Access More of Your Cabinet Space with Lazy Susans
I always keep my eyes open for inexpensive Lazy Susans at garage
sales and discount stores. A Lazy Susan is basically a turntable that you can
install in a kitchen cabinet or pantry that rotates so you can easily get to
everything on the cabinet shelf. This is especially useful for cabinet shelves
that are difficult to reach.
Fisher Swanson writes for ThriftyFun.com, a site that looks for frugal
solutions to everyday problems. http://www.thriftyfun.com
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