What tools can help me organize my kitchen?
There are lots of tools that can help you organize your kitchen. For drawers, I like containers that you can, you know, little trays that you can put in the drawer. A lot of times those trays you buy for your desk are really handy in the kitchen to keep little things in and to keep your utensils in. I think a great kitchen tool are the rubberized mats or shelf liners. They're great because they prevent things from moving around, especially if you live in cities where, you know, you're prone to earthquakes. But they're also great to line the inside of drawers and put your knives on, and things that you don't want to move around a lot. I think the things you buy for your cabinets to put, that you know there are shelves that you can maximize the cabinet space by stacking things on top of them and under them. Those are terrific tools. I think racks that you can stand dishes up in are really great tools for pot lids, for serving platters. You can use them for something other than just regular dishes. I like the idea of actually using containers and things that you wouldn't normally find in a kitchen to use to store kitchen things. I've used CD bins before. You know, deep containers that you would normally stack CDs in - I like to use those in a kitchen to put plastic bags in, and bag handles, and garlic, and all kinds of little things that you want to containerize and you don't want them floating all around, and they're really great. You can pretty much put like eight or ten of those in a drawer and just create like little cubby holes, almost, in a drawer. So there are all kinds of things you can use to really help organize your kitchen, tools like that and they're great. And you can find them, you can look for them and find them, you know, in all different places.
