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You have a beautiful clean home but does your kitchen look a mess an organisational mess that is? You know in the cabinets and in the drawers.

If you waste a lot of time looking for a certain items and eventually find them in a different place from the last place you thought you left it.

Let’s me help with making life in the kitchen easier - reorganisation is the key.

I’ll take you through the kitchen cabinets and drawers and maybe you can get some ideas.

To the left of my double sink there are two cabinets. On the top shelf I would keep all of my glasses and also all of my coffee cups. On the bottom shelf I would keep the dinner plates, salad places, saucers for coffee cups and cereal bowls. When I have used these and washed and dried them I would put them back in their original place.

To the left of this cabinet, I have two shelves, six doors opening into these cabinets. On the top shelf I keep my microwave dishes and my pie keeper, the dish rags, cloth napkins, and dish towels, also the accessories to my mixer which consists of the grinder, etc. and the instruction manuals for each appliance attachment.

On the bottom shelf I keep a container that has round lids and another container which has square or oblong lids, then next to them are the plastic containers for these lids.

I keep my cheese grater and also my food processor.

On the bottom set of cabinets with six doors I also have two shelves.

On the top shelf I keep my canned soups and vegetables and cans of various foods and I keep this in individual groups.

For example all cans of soup are together. All cans of peas are together, etc. My cans of juices such as tomato juice in another part of the shelf as these are large cans.

On the bottom shelf are more cans and these are all in sections also as I stock up on cans whenever they are on sale on items I know that I will use within a few months.

I can look at the cans, for instance, of peas and know that I am low or that I have lots and don’t need to buy at this time.

These cans are separated so that a glance I can tell what is in stock.

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Cleaning and organizing go hand in hand, here how I organize my kitchen.

I have cabinets under my countertop stove and on the top shelf in these cabinets are my pots and pans, and on the bottom shelf I have some of my small appliances, such as the rice cooker, electric knife, etc. and I always put them back in the same position after use so I can find them when needed.

Above the stove I have two sets of cabinet with only one shelf. On this shelf I have the cans of coffee, regular and decaf, coffee filters and thermos equipment for coffee also.

Above my refrigerator I have two cabinets, in these cabinets I have first aid items and light bulbs and miscellaneous items.

I have three cabinets near my wall oven, in these cabinets I have all of my baking items, such as flour, sugar, dates, raisins, coconut, anything associated with baking and also I have my stock of dried beans and pasta products such as spaghetti.

I also have an island with cabinets around each of four sides. In these I have my baking pans, salad spinner, tortilla warmers and various other items. There are also four drawers in this island, one is for flatware or silverware, one is for large ladles, spoons, can opener, measuring cups and spoons. The third drawer has lots of various items, lids for jars, other utensils for cooking and the fourth drawer is for tin foil, baggies, sandwich bags, etc.

I do hope this will help you to organize your kitchen where you have immediate access to all of the items you need for cooking or serving.

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