Comments on: Ask the Organizer: Tips for Keeping Your Kitchen Clutter-Free

By: Rachel H.

Rachel H. — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:32:22 +0000

It really wouldn’t be that hard to build, it’s a very simple basic table design. I love it as well and am planning to put the design idea in my woodworking folder.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:07:54 +0000

How do you get the rest of the household to keep up with the organization? My husband rebels and everyone else just ignores my efforts:)

By: Around the web this week (2/25/12)

Around the web this week (2/25/12) — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:01:07 +0000

[...] Tips for keeping your kitchen clutter-free from Money Saving Mom [...]

By: Tami @ ThisMomsDelight.com

Tami @ ThisMomsDelight.com — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:46:51 +0000

I love clutter-free kitchens! If only I could recreate one for my home! Thanks for the tips.

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:00:57 +0000

I too put my toaster away (once cool). Only the Kurig stays on counter – clutter makes me crazy!

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:47:04 +0000

I recently found a 12 month letter-size organizer at Target. When the bills come in, they get opened, filed in the month it’s due and the excess paper gets shredded immediately (especially those teaser low-rate checks from credit card companies…dangerious if ever lost/stolen). The paper pile on my kitchen counter is MUCH smaller.

By: Rachel at Rachel's Giveaways

Rachel at Rachel's Giveaways — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:01:45 +0000

I love the idea of creating zones in the fridge and using organizing bins. Thanks!

By: Kristin

Kristin — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:36:30 +0000

Oops, I forgot to add in my previous comment about some great ideas I got from Family Handyman for the kitchen. I hung all my measuring spoons and cups inside my cabinet doors where my baking supplies are kept. Just took a few nails and a couple of minutes. Much better than being thrown all in a drawer and having to dig and dig for stuff. Also, I took 20 seconds and put a tension rod across the back of my spice cabinet and propped up all my little spice jars on it – so they don’t get lost way back in my dark, scary cabinets. I’d love to post some picture here if I knew how. Just let me know!

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:55:55 +0000

We have a chest freezer. I use the larger size re-usable shopping bags in it for different types of frozen foods. I wrote on the front of each bag with a sharpie. So I can just grab the handles and put out the bags to find the “chicken” bag or “veggie” bag or what ever I need.

By: katytr

katytr — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:35:14 +0000

great article with great tips. I loved your use of shoe boxes and other containers to store flour and food in. It makes no sense that flour containers are usually round (and hard to organize)

By: Kristine

Kristine — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:05:48 +0000

I don’t mind reading long posts, but I didn’t think this was too long.

By: Kristine

Kristine — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:03:32 +0000

I didn’t think it was too long either.

By: Kristine

Kristine — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:00:59 +0000

Wow, typos bother me, too, but not so much that I won’t read an otherwise good post because of them.

By: Kristine

Kristine — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:59:03 +0000

I leave the pots that I use every day or almost every day out on top of the stove. I also leave my coffee pot on the counter all the time because I have no other place for it. I have very few cupboards and only one drawer in my kitchen, plus a couple of metal utility shelves, so I have to leave some things on the counter. Since I don’t have much free counter space, I use the table for food preparation.

By: Kristine

Kristine — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:47:55 +0000

I don’t have a garage or a basement either. I wish I had a little more storage space. I don’t even have a junk drawer because there’s only one drawer in my kitchen.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:17:50 +0000

Thanks for a great article! And it was NOT too long ) I thought all the tips were great.

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:50:51 +0000

would it be possible to email me what kinds of bins you used for your upright freezer?

By: kristen

kristen — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:21:49 +0000

please, please tell me where you got your black stools ?? I need them. Please email me!!! (please)

By: WilliamB

WilliamB — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:59:44 +0000

Guess I’m an outlier – I like organizing a kitchen and, by the standards of this list, I keep a lot on the counter. By now I have a good idea of what to store together and what I want to keep out. Standing mixer, rice cooker, toaster oven, spice rack, knife block, fruit tower are all out; blender, cutting boards, bowls, colanders pots, pans are all in lower cabinets. The over-oven shelf has baking sheets, muffin tins, cooling racks.

I keep all the measuring gadgets, spices, sauces (soys, fish, vinegar, etc) in one area. The baking ingredients – flours, sugars, oatmeal, leaven, etc – in another; in my current kitchen this cabinet holds rices also. Storage containers and eating dishes go near the fridge. The other cabinets hold shelf-stable foods and oils.

By: Emily @ Our Frugal Happy Life

Emily @ Our Frugal Happy Life — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:47:04 +0000

I hope I didn’t come across in a bad way.

I thought this was a good post with lots of useful information – just drug on for awhile. But nothing in it was unneeded.

And I do truly always “hear your voice” (not really of course!) about the word limit when I write posts. After all, if I don’t care to read long posts, what makes me think other people would like to?!