Kitchen Corners

Unlike my husband, (who gets so frustrated at trying to find things every time I move them), I am always open to storing things in a different way or rearranging things to improve efficiency, workability and storage. Today my poor husband is sick so I probably should have spared him but I got the bug to reorganize a few kitchen cupboards and went to work on them.

Kitchen corners have often been a source of frustration for me. It seems that things just disappear in the back of a corner especially if you are 5’3” or under with regard to those upper corner cupboards. I have found that if I put the right things in a trouble corner cupboard then I don’t get so frustrated with the corner space. I had been putting large cereal boxes on my top corner shelf but that wasn’t working well, (despite my neat label on the shelf that read “CEREAL”). The box that I wanted would often get pushed to the back and I would play the “Get it From the Back Game” by grabbing a pair of high heels, scooting a chair over to stand on or trying to grab the box with salad tongs. I pulled a muscle once playing the Get it From the Back Game. The box won. I’m sure I will miss that game but I think that storing my large bags of flour and sugar will work better. I will only need to get to the bags when my canisters are running low.

My kitchen is like most kitchens in that the bottom corner cupboard has a large two shelf lazy susan in it which is supposed to be a storage solution to the Get it From the Back Game. I tried putting baking supplies on the lazy susan but I often still lost things in the back. We have all done it. When you have a heavy load on a corner lazy susan and you get a good spin going, off pops all your little things like muffin liners, vanilla, etc. I think the use of lazy susans is limited. However, I moved the canned items, including a couple of bulk canned items that I leave in boxes from Sam’s Club, to my corner lazy susan and it is working better already. So the answer for corners I think is to store the least-used items there and those larger items. If you are vertically challenged as I am only put rarely used large items in that top corner shelf unless you want to play the Get if From the Back Game. Wish my husband good luck when he looks for his canned soup that (which he shouldn’t be eating anyway), has been moved.