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Your home is bursting with cabinets and drawers, but it can be very difficult to find everything you need and keep track of it all. One day, your cabinet for forks consisted of 3 brown leaf-shaped spoons.
The next, you blinked and the drawer was overflowing with 17 silver steak knives and a blue plastic tray that looked like an oversized ice cream cone attached to a wooden handle.
On the surface, this problem seems like it’s due to a lack of cabinet space. However, there are other ways you can organize your kitchen that don’t rely on buying more cabinets and closets. Here are 15 brilliant ideas that will help save you time, frustration, and money:
1. Store items in the same place every time
The first step to staying organized is keeping things in one place each and every time. If your recipe box and your pasta pot are always kept in the same cabinet, you’ll never wonder where they are or scour your entire kitchen trying to find them.
2. Put everything away at once
When you finish cooking, cleaning, or doing laundry, put everything away right then and there. Don’t let your husband build a fort out of the kids’ stuffed animals and then wonder where those animals have gone for a week. Stow it all…
