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COOKING UP A PLAN Organizing In The Kitchen
The kitchen is an area of your home which gets used more often
than most other areas. It stands to reason, that if your kitchen
were more organized and simple to use, that your life would feel
easier. Here are ten easy steps to organize your kitchen, and
make family life flow more smoothly when it comes to meal
preparation.
1. Pull everything out of each cabinet and go through it.
Discard or donate those things which aren?t frequently used,
duplicate items, broken items, or things you forgot you had. Do
this with each cabinet and drawer, setting up separate areas on
the floor for each group. Be ruthless. Most kitchens are short
on storage space, so the goal is to only have things you love
and use.
2. After your cabinets are all empty, consider what is best for
you in terms of how to group items. Sort all your baking items
and pile them together. Sort your cooking items and pile them
together. Group the dishes you eat from, glassware, holiday or
other seasonal items that only get used once or twice a year, as
well as those special entertaining or serving pieces that are
only used occasionally.
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space makes the most sense for them to live. Cooking and baking
pieces should be kept close to where you do food preparation.
Cooking utensils should be in the drawer nearest to the food
preparation area as well. Glassware might be best near the sink
or refrigerator. Make a coffee or tea station where you have the
coffee and tea, sugar, mugs, and filters, and try to place it
near the water source. This way you avoid going back and forth
across the kitchen for the things you need just to make your
morning beverage. Storing things where they are used and with
the other items they are used along with, helps to simplify
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4. Containerize inside your cabinets. Group together packets of
sauce mixes, gravy mixes, hot cereal packets, hot cocoa
envelopes, and put them into small plastic containers to avoid
them being scattered all over the cabinet. Use clear plastic
shoeboxes to store food that is in tiny boxes such as Jell-O or
pudding mix.
5. Discard containers without lids and store the remaining
plastic containers either with the lids on them, or store the
lids in another larger container so they all stay together. Do
the same with the lids for your pots and pans. A large clear
plastic box will keep them nicely together and on their sides,
or get a wire rack that will also store them on their sides in
the cabinet.
6. Use vertical space. Place hooks under cabinets to hold mugs
above the countertop, or hang a stemware rack in the same spot
for wine glasses, which will free up a lot of space in the
cabinet above. Hang adhesive hooks on the inside of cabinet
doors or pantry doors to hold tools such as measuring cups, oven
mitts, or other kitchen gadgets. Consider using wall space or a
ceiling rack to hang functional items such as pots and pans.
Remember that any space you can use to hang something will free
up flat space inside a cabinet.
7. Use lazy susans (turntables) to hold things such as oils,
vinegars, and other cooking ingredients, as well as spices,
vitamins or medications. You can also use a few lazy susans in
your refrigerator. One will keep beverages, so nothing ever
hides in the back to spoil or freeze, and use one on another
shelf to keep leftovers or small jars of pickles, olives, or
other small food items.
8. Get some drawer dividers for your cooking utensil drawers and
your ?junk drawers?. Everyone needs a place to keep those little
miscellaneous things, but they don?t have to be overflowing and
junky. Drawer dividers will allow you to assign a little spot
for each thing and you?ll be able to find things when you need
them.
9. Get a magnetic sorter box to hang on the side of the fridge
for coupons, takeout menus, a notepad and pen, and other papers
that tend to accumulate on the countertops. Each type of paper
should have its own section in the sorter.
10. Keep trash bags near the trashcan and throw a stack of loose
bags into the bottom of the can. That way, when you pull out one
bag, there is already another one right below it waiting to be
used. If you put your trash out at the curb one night a week,
use that time to clean out your refrigerator each week too. Peek
in there and see what food needs to be pitched, throw it out,
and then take the trash out to the curb immediately after. If
you do the cleaning out weekly, you?ll find that your
refrigerator will stay current and you?ll never have a whole
shelf being taken up by old moldy food.
Your personal work style will determine where you store and use
the items in your kitchen, but the goal is to get that room and
its contents to be serving your needs as smoothly and
efficiently as possible. If you invest the time and energy into
decluttering and organizing your kitchen, it is an investment
that will pay off in happiness for years to come.
About the author:
Monica Ricci has been an organizing specialist since 1999, and
her motivational presentations teach effective organizing and
simplifying techniques for home and work. She also offers free
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