Organization of cupboards

PasturesNew

I blame kitchen cupboards - and that's why I dislike them immensely and in a perfect world would choose deep pan drawers and a good larder.

Cupboards are too small to keep everything together and neat and accessible, so you end up over-stuffing one just to keep everything of a similar type together... or you end up with random items shoved in other cupboards as they wouldn't fit.

gibson123

Meg72 and Greyqueen.... PMSL

minniemaus1970

My wall units are tidy, but my 'plastics' cupboard and Pan drawer are really messy, thanks to Teenager clearing dishwasher! but I ll have to put up with it, otherwise I won't get anymore 'help' lol.

:rotfl:

paddy's_mum

GreyQueen wrote: »

I've long since formed the opinion that, in the dark of the night, when the household is in Bedfordshire, Fings wot live in Cupboards have raves. It's the only logical explanation for the disorder which occurs behind closed doors.

I shudder to think what goes on in our spare room wardrobe when nobody's looking. Every time I go in there, the coat hangers have been breeding in the darkness.

Wondering just what they've been up to is enough to make you blush!

bargainbetty

I found that stacking stuff on shelves meant I had to empty just about everything to get to the thing at the back. I got a couple of cheap washing up bowls and filled them with everything, and put those in the shelf gaps instead (DIY Ikea). Finally, my cake tins can be found with their springforms bases....

Other than that, I shove everything onto a shelf with a suitable looking gap, which risks the avalanche. I have been smacked in the forehead by falling gravy paste, much to the amusement of my flatmate.

gibson123

Hee hee thank you, it's not my fault then, it's kitchen designers, teenage daughters and rave parties. Of course it is, the cutlery drawer is exactly the same, no matter how many times I remove the tin-opener it still ends up beside the spoons, they must be having an affair!

bravobeastie

bargainbetty wrote: »

Finally, my cake tins can be found with their springforms bases....
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I had one of those until my husband used the base to mix filler and hardener for the cars

gibson123

bravobeastie wrote: »

I had one of those until my husband used the base to mix filler and hardener for the cars

This struck a nerve, I have always loved baking and when I still lived at home bought lots of lovely shaped cake tins. I came home one day to find my heart shaped tin, my 1 and my 8 filled with dirty oil on the drive. My petrol headed twin brothers had to do without an 18th birthday cake.

GreyQueen

gibson123 wrote: »

Hee hee thank you, it's not my fault then, it's kitchen designers, teenage daughters and rave parties. Of course it is, the cutlery drawer is exactly the same, no matter how many times I remove the tin-opener it still ends up beside the spoons, they must be having an affair!

Do you read Terry Pratchett's Discworld books? As a minor aside, they have all sorts of deities, inclusing Anoia,the goddess of things which get stuck in kitchen drawers.

Pssst, it's usually the ladle...........:rotfl:

The coat hangers......oh yes, the coat hangers. I have white plastic ones and they're seem to be more and more of them. They're either reproducing or some of my clothes have escaped and left the hangers all lonesome behind them.

**********URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Discworld_gods&action=edit&section=4"][COLOR=#0000ff]edit[/COLOR][/URL Anoia
The minor goddess of Things That Stick in Drawers, Anoia is praised by rattling a drawer and crying "How can it close on the damned thing but not open with it? Who bought this? Do we ever use it?" As she says, sooner or later every curse is a prayer. She also eats corkscrews and is responsible for Things Down The Backs of Sofas, and is considering moving into stuck zips. The Maccalariat family of Ankh-Morpork have been Anoians for five generations. She is not part of the number of gods praised at the Temple of Small Gods, but instead has a freelance priestess who also serves for various other minor deities. Thud! refers to a painting of Anoia Rising From The Cutlery. *****************

gibson123

LOL I have read lots of Pratchett books, forgot about this one.