Keeping the Lid on Things: New Storage Solution

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Hell is a kitchen cabinet oozing with nearly melted, dented, stained (and smelly) plastic containers that have no lids. I created this hell myself, in several fits of organizational epiphanies, and all was not well. I have shrieked in agony, “Can’t I just bleepin’ put some sauce in something that hasn’t imploded?”

And then, on a trip to Costco, I found a very reasonably priced, 18-piece set of Pyrex glass containers—and I exorcised the heck out of that kitchen cabinet. Oh, the thrill of filling one of those containers with leftover sauce without having to dig for a lid or catch a whiff of a mixture of bad dishwasher soap and strong (very strong) garlic odors with a hint of chocolate!

I hope I can keep things this way forever. I hope I can keep my containers nice. But nothing lasts forever. I know this. The dishwasher has a way of warping lids, and strong smells have a way of creating a fine film on surfaces, but if I can just manage to snap a lid on it all—even if just for a week, a month, a year—I’ll have won a small battle in one small space of my kitchen, and that counts for a lot.

Your Turn: What battles have you won (or lost) in your kitchen?

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30 thoughts on “Keeping the Lid on Things: New Storage Solution”

      1. I have those glass containers, and they work well. You can put them in the microwave and freezer. They are the containers I don’t like to send home with my kids. 🙂

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  3. Good job! I had the same battle, so I got rid of all plastic storage years ago; got so tired of stained and warped ugly containers that never had the right lid. Where do they go, or where do the containers go that the lids I had once belonged to?
    For my storage, I use canning jars and an array of vintage Pyrex refrigerator containers with the glass lids. They are sturdy, don’t taste of plastic, and the Pyrex fit nicely in the refrigerator because they are rectangles.

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  5. We have a set of glass storage containers with snap-on lids and love them! They clean so well (no more lurkings of garlic and onion) and don’t have a plastic taste. I still have lots of plastic containers in a big bin (they all have lids, though) from my working days, but I think they will soon be finding their way to second-hand.

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  7. Dried spice/herb containers. I used to have trouble finding what I needed and sometimes bought double when it was unnecessary. I bought some small spice rack shelves that fit inside the cabinet. I don’t have nearly as many spices as I used to, but I kept the basics that I actually use!

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  8. I reorganized how we store what I refer to as snacks (dried fruit, granola bars, oatmeal, popcorn kernels, cereal, etc) my daughter and I are short so instead of square canisters that were a front and back row, I got higher slimmer containers that fit across the cabinet with no doubles. Easier to see and grab.

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  9. I love that type of storage container. Ken keeps using empty yogurt and peanut butter containers and I hate it–you can never find the right lid. When he’s not looking, I try to throw them away!

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