By “Tupperware cupboard” I mean what ever you call your cupboard where you keep various, plastic containers and lids.
Are you the kind who has everything neatly organized into piles of containers with their matching lids neatly beside? Or are you the type who has to quickly open the door a little, chuck in the container or lid and quickly shut the door and stem the tide of falling out, mismatched piles? Or something in between?
Fixing it’s been on my list all summer.
For a couple of years I’ve been trying to move from plastic to glass containers for leftovers. So, the newer pyrex containers with lids are neatly stacked towards the front and towards the back it’s a higgledy piggledy mess.
It doesn’t help that it’s a corner cabinet and there’s a lot of space I can’t reach without the step ladder.
About 1 time a month I reorganize but it always goes back to being a disaster, I need to get rid of it all and buy matching stackable containers. I also have way more than I need.
I chose the “very neat” option, but that’s only because my husband ultimately got frustrated with it and straightened it up. Before that it was a disaster. It’s on the top shelf of an upper cupboard, and every time you opened the door, lids and bowls rained down upon your head. It remained that way because A) I would have to stand on a shaky step-stool in order to reach the shelf (while my husband can reach it from the floor), and B) he is the only one who used the storage containers. Eventually, I got mad and stopped straightening it, and after a couple of months his Navy training kicked in and he had to straighten it out.
Now when I have clean storage containers to put away I just set them on the shelf below, and later they have been magically transported to their proper places :D.
Mine is sort of a mixture between neat and disaster. The front area of the cupboard where things that I use often are kept is sort of neatish and the back where things that I don’t use often is a disaster.
I can rarely find the matching top to any containing when I need it, although I know they’re in there somewhere.
When things fall out on the kitchen floor, I don’t like to shove them back in; it gives me the incentive to either throw them out or put them in the dishwasher and sort them out more neatly before they go back in the cabinet–depending on how useful they were to begin with.
I gave up all that plastic crap that was impossible to keep straight, and got a bunch of clear glass pyrex bowls. They stay neatly stacked, don’t get discolored, don’t make my food taste like plastic in the microwave, and dry properly in the dishwasher. Huge improvement.
Mine is a mess, I have three different brands in there, the lids are all jammed together and the different sizes of containers are strewn about on two different shelves. I just might try that glass idea. But then again I like when they come out with the cute, holiday, etc. decorated plastic containers.
The bowls are sort of tossed behind the vinegars and oils. All the lids are stored vertically in a separate box. We find it easier that way; grab the right size lid then find a compatible bowl.
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This! :smack:
I finally fixed mine - I threw out (recycled, I guess) all the odds and sods and just kept the good, matching ones. Now I have them neatly stacked in the cupboard. I don’t know why it took me so many years to get to this point. 
“What’cha got in that closet, Mr. McGee?”
Finding the container is usually easy enough. They’re big enough to see in the cabinet. Pulling it out requires some delicate handling, as an unbalanced pile of bowls are generally stacked on top. Finding the lid equals an infomercial-worthy level of bungling with everything spilling out every damn where and putting the spilled stuff back in just causes more stuff to fall out but you juggle it all as fast as you can and slam the cabinet shut as soon as possible.
I’ve done something about it before but it always goes back to that state. Now I just embrace the entropy.
Disaster. You know those disposable tubs with lids you get lunch meat in? They’re disposable. My wife doesn’ t know this.
The containers are all in one basket. Lids in another. Some of the containers are stacked, others just thrown in the basket. Also really big containers seem to get get set on top of the lid basket for some reason.
The glass containers (Rubbermaid brand) all stack very nicely and the lids snap together. They are my favorite for that reason. They are in a separate cabinet and very organized.
The containers are all very neatly stacked. The lids live in a box in chaos.
Mine’s a disaster, and I don’t care. Close the door and no one sees it. I can dig through and find what I need.
This unorganization used to drive my ex crazy. Lighten up. It’s only some plastic containers in a closed cabinet.
Jeesh.
This. I’ve got two sets of glass bowls, nestled neatly with the lids standing up behind them.
A few years ago I started a thread about this topic. I took advantage of my elderly mother having a short stay in skilled nursing to clear the cupboards of all the old, reused Ziploc bags and mismatched margarine containers and whipped topping containers and those wonderful lunchmeat boxes. Recycled what I could, threw out anything without a lid, and saved a few lunchmeat boxes to use for the back and forth to work pile o’ stuff. That way if I want to, I throw the box away at work. I bought a fairly large set of Glad storage containers in various sizes because a) the lids snap together and b) the lids were blue and matched the blue of the other sturdy plastic ware I was keeping, and I like blue. I bought these wonderful permanent labels that you can write on with a Sharpy (yes, I bought a blue one to match) and then wipe off. I organized one whole shelf with all these wonderful containers and I felt happy and organized. I thought about doing the glass route, but glass is too heavy for Mom’s arthritic hands, and she drops stuff. She can see into the plastic and leftovers (usually) get labeled…when we used the Corningware Grabbits and containers, you had to open everything to figure out what you had. And glass was too heavy to cart back and forth to work. So tonight I noticed that the shelf is a bit disheveled so tomorrow I will reorganize. But for the most part, it makes me happy to see the tidy stacks. I keep those lunchmeat boxes elsewhere and am diligent about tossing them when I get more than four.
That cupboard is one of the few areas in my house that’s totally organized. You don’t wanna see the rest.