5 Kitchen Cabinet Organizing Tips
by Fisher Swanson

Description: Tips for organizing your kitchen cabinets.

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Here are five tips to help bring sanity to your kitchen cabinets:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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 http://www.ThriftyFun.com, a site that looks for frugal solutions to everyday problems.

Basic cabinet "lay-out" is important so, perhaps, you might consider adding this(?) e.g., glasses & coasters in cabinet to the right of the sink; dishes & more coasters in cabinet nearest table; cutlery in drawer nearest table; cooking utensils to right of stove (or the southpaw side); electric mixer with baking tins & mixing bowls; in the pantry: pasta sauce, soups & broths nearest the pasta; all spices & herbs in alphabetical order & put into a basket for easy access; various size baskets in 'fridge for produce, cheese, fruit with a taped-on, typed, label to stop husbands & kids keeping the 'fridge door open for 10 mins. (not joking!!). A safety tip my sister & I use: a small bowl of ice cubes in the freezer for when we burn outselves while cooking. As, logical-minded, perfectionists, we drive outselves crazy but, know where everything is in each of our (large) homes!...Patt

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