I have a shameful area in my kitchen: the kids dishes area. The cupboard is crowded with plastic cups, a few plates we haven’t donated yet, and lots of water bottles. The plastic cups and plates will be gone eventually, but the water bottles are here to stay. With four active people in the house, we are always reaching for a water bottle. Water bottles are great, they allow us to take water with us wherever we go. Water bottles are awful, they are awkwardly large and end up falling over and creating a mess in the cupboard.
Today I received some water bottle holders from Amazon. My water bottles are organized! It is going to be easier to keep the other kids things organized. When the kids things are gone we will sill have a space to keep the water bottles together. I’m thirilled.
What helps you stay organized? Do you have any tips to share?
mildlygranola 
What helps me stay organised you ask…hmmm…my mind is empty…it just took me 3 days to find my 2 spindles I’d misplaced so I guess I’ve no great tips. We only have 3 water bottles in the house so I’m ok on those but if you could come up with a solution for Tupperware lids and containers I’ll love you even more. I swear mine are breeding in the cupboard.
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Mine are too. My solution for Tupperware is ignore it and use glass storage containers instead. That way it becomes John’s problem.
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I think 8 celebrated the day we got rid of all the plastic cups and plates!
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Water bottle holders!!! Brilliant! I didn’t know such things existed! Finally they can be wrangled (as I am sure they breed on their own when not monitored!) 😀
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They do breed! I also have a bad habit of buying water bottles when I think they look cool. You can never have too many water bottles, mugs, or skeins of yarn.
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What a great organizing tool! You’re right – water bottles are really hard to keep orderly. I think for me it would be some slide-out drawers we installed in our kitchen island cupboards. Before you had to crawl all the way in there to get stuff in the back, so we had stuff expiring all the time. Because it was that or just put stuff in the front of the cabinet. Then we installed the slide-outs and it make the cabinets work perfectly.
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I need to get slide outs. I have been waiting to make improvements in the kitchen, because I really want to redo it. It will be years before we can do that, so I need to start doing small things.
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I hear you on that! I don’t think I’ve had a kitchen I’ve liked ever. It would be so great to be able to redo one to make it exactly what you want. But boy is it expensive!
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My primary water bottle is usually within reach of my arm; I have a couple of backup ones, for when it decides to stay behind when I visit someone! They live outside, one in each vehicle, most of the time.
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I need to put some extra water bottles in the trunk. My kids are always forgetting their water bottles.
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