What's the solution to everyone using a bread bin as a bread plinth?

[FireworksAndSparklers]

It's doing my head in. The bread bin gets full so people put stuff on top, then the stuff in the bread bin goes stale or gets used but the top stuff doesn't get transferred so we often have a near empty bread bin with wraps and buns and bread piled on the top! Any clever solutions? Any way of getting the bread bin/plinth off our countertop completely???

We have a lovely vintage tin bread bin. Full of potatoes and onions.

Bread is in an eye-level cupboard. Pittas etc live in the freezer.

Bread bin contains main savoury bread. When we buy other bread things e.g pitas or croissants they live in their original packaging on the shelf near the bread bin. Once they are open, the leftovers are frozen straight after the meal and kept in the freezer.
At the moment I have brioche, multi seed bread and pitas in the freezer. Ciabatta in the bread bin.

I have a double decker bread bin. Really useful.

I thought it was just our house too. Anything that goes in the bin gets forgotten so it's all on the top or around said bin. The bin is quite a nice white melamine one with a bread board top. It's just nobody actually uses it properly. I wish I'd kept my stainless steel one with the slide up door. The boys in my house seemed to cope with that better.

I use the bread bin to store bready items I don't want my toddler to see and demand, like crumpets and brioche. Bread can go in too, but only if there's space.

I've recently figured out that only edible bread lives in the bread bin so nothing mouldy or stale does. That makes some room. Also make sure only bread lives in there. Veg has a tendency to live in the bread bin too. But then veg doesn't really have a home as such

Bread, rolls, wraps, bagels etc all live in the freezer and we defrost or toast on demand. That way we can have a decent selection with no waste...

Bread products kept in freezer. Bread for toast, straight out of freezer into toaster, bread for sandwiches straight out of freezer, sandwiches made, defrosts in time for lunch. Tortillas defrost in about 2 minutes, muffins/crumpets straight from freezer to toaster.

SleepingisanArt - bread sister!

I binned mine lol. I now just chuck it all in a cupboard. Granted sometimes I end up with packets of crumpets sat on top of plates but I much prefer it to bloody bread bins

A bread box with no lid on the counter top, works for me