Kitchen Spice Drawer
I'm a Kitchen Disaster waiting to happen. Knife cuts and oven burns top the list. It might have something to do with the way I ram around.
Might, I said.
So you can imagine that the cute little tiered shelves or a tiny lazy susan filled with spices would do me in. One quick move and the whole thing topples over and out onto the counter.
But! Mess and anger no more!
(At least when it comes to the spices.)
I now put my spices in a drawer:
And label their cute little tops with a Sharpie and masking tape (if needed):
Might, I said.
So you can imagine that the cute little tiered shelves or a tiny lazy susan filled with spices would do me in. One quick move and the whole thing topples over and out onto the counter.
But! Mess and anger no more!
(At least when it comes to the spices.)
I now put my spices in a drawer:
And label their cute little tops with a Sharpie and masking tape (if needed):
It's far easier to find what I need at a glance.
The only drawback is that Busy Hands like to head right to the Make Mommy Holler Drawer and instantly grab for the cayenne pepper. It's like my baby can read! I knew it!
Anyway.
Here's my fix to keep the spices from becoming a toy drawer:
(It's a rubber band. In case that wasn't obvious.)
I could use the drawer locks, but those would only add to my already-boiling-over Kitchen Anger and Pain.
Anyone else have a highly clever and intelligent spice storage tip?
13 comments:
Stretch Mark Mama, you crack me up!
I love reading your posts and laughing with you as I see my own family and angst in your adventures.
Spice drawer idea, brilliant. Rubber band? Deceptively simple.
And frugal too. :)
Thanks for the giggle.
Genius. All of our spices are shoved in an upper cabinet, so you can only imagine the avalanch when I need something from the back? Love this. Blessings, Whitney
Great minds DO think alike. Yes, our spices are in a drawer and yes, we do use rubber bands to keep the kiddos out. It's always such great fun reading your brilliantly written posts.
I am so switching to a spice drawer! My current spice holder is an upper cabinet, which as Whitney pointed out, results in frequent avalanches or several minutes of searching for the paprika...
Great idea!
Great advice! Love the rubber band. :)
Good idea! When my kiddos were little, I'd take a yardstick and run it through the handles of my kitchen drawers. (They were three in a row on top of each other.) That kept the little ones from actually getting something out of the drawers in case they pulled open all of them at once! Wish I'd taken a picture of that!
Hilarious and great tips. I never thought of a spice drawer - awesome!
Your spices look just like mine! I also put little pieces of tape on the top and used a Sharpie to label them. Love it! Although my kitchen has NO low drawers -- imagine that! So my spices stay neatly organized in a overhead cabinet, which actually works just fine for me.
Great tip! :D I have issues with burning and cutting myself although I've done a little better lately. LOL!
Alas, my kitchen has no drawers, save for the one that holds the silverware.
My OCD does require that I arrange them on the rack according to region, color, and use.
(Tina...quit making the family look bad!)
I kinda love my spice rack right now - two drawers from an antique treadle sewing machine turned on their sides (like shelves), and the spices in those little IKEA jars that look like mini candy jars. Alphabetized! And I can find them!
I just want to say THANK YOU! I spent Wednesday morning making a spice drawer that looks like yours, and I'm so happy about it! They were all shoved in an upper cabinet before and I couldn't reach everything and everything would fall out and it was making me crazy. Now? Simple. I love you, Stretch Mark Mama!
Corey
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I alphabetize my spices. I know... I'm a nerd. But my English major had to go toward something!
Honestly, though, it took all of 5 minutes when we moved in, and if I just put them back where I got them as I use them (novel idea, that!), then it's not hard to maintain.
I will admit that some often used spices have migrated toward the front, but oh, well....
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