WHY are my kitchen cupboards overflowing?! *photos*

[ShakiraIsMyNameOnSaturday]

Please help! We have what I think is a reasonable number of kitchen cupboards - 11 cupboards and three drawers. Yet we are bursting at the seams! Everything is a disorganised mess.

What am I doing wrong? Do we have too much stuff?!?

Any suggestions that might help would be gratefully received.....

Your cupboards are tiny op

too ashamed to post mine. Annoyingly your photos are needling my conscience into sorting them out today. I am trying not to give in.

Your cupboards are tiny op

Yep i agree with that too.
The first thing that came to my mind was that you have very little. I was hoping that you have many more cupboards that you haven’t showed us.
But I have many more plates and glasses for example (which are all used regularly so not too many of them iyswim).

Agree you just need to take it all out and
Bin the out of date stuff
Separate food from other items
Buy a caddy for cleaning products

Check out the home edit on insta for ideas.

I think you have different items muddled togehter too much and then they are hard to put away and just get stuffed in.

First sort everything out so similar items are toghether and in logical places. All food in same group of cupboards including your tall one. Spices and sauces in a wall unit near cooker. Tea coffee etc near kettle. Crockery and glasses near dishwasher. Serving dishes put on separate shelf to everyday plates. All cleaning stuff under or near sink. All pans and utensils near cooker.

Anything you don't have room for, either weed it down or find another home. We just have nowhere for big bags of crisps. They get put on top of a wall cupboard but then we don't have them that often. Also bulky long life purchases I've got a shelf in the garage for them, similarly appliances I don't use much like slow cooker.

Then organise your interior storage. Adjust shelf heights or add shelves. TK Maxx have loads of organising boxes and wire racks to double stack plates. Also you can buy sets of wire baskets on runners or extra shelves to get more accessiblilty from small base units. This is one we did is only a 40 cm unit but now takes the everyday dog/cat food , all teatowels and cloths and all the plastic boxes. Also just adding the plate rack means I can stack 20 plates and you only need to take the top one as they are all the same sizes.

We downsized from a larger house so we did have to weed out pretty ruthlessly.We are a family of 4 we have 7 cupboards and 3 drawers too.

I like your boots OP 👌. Are they just standard Doc Martins?

I did a clear out over the summer

2 bin bags of crap

Do the one cupboard a day challenge. Check dates.
Put things in some order

Tins
Baking
Ceareal
Herbs and spices cooking ingredients
Helps keep it tidy

🤦🏻‍♀️ I have to re-organise my kitchen at some point... you guys are making me feel like a hoarder totally am one though

You call that overflowing?

We recently downsized. In addition to several previous suggestions:

• we regularly used just a few recipes from several recipe books so we scanned our favourites then gave away most of the books
• we needed more glassware so I bought sets of stackable ones and got rid of many of our old odd ones
• sorted our oven dishes into stackable shapes and got rid of the rest, ditto plastic storage boxes

I've started pulling everything out. I'm now surrounded by a colossal mess and I don't know where to start with putting thing back. I want to cry.

Group it:

Food
Electrical
Cups / plates etc

Do that first!

Start with non foods - pans, plates etc, easier to pick out than food. Go on!

Thank you. It's a bit better but there's still some things in weird places. Like freezer/cool bags and Ikea bags. Everything is away though for tonight.

To PP who asked, my boots are just the standard Chelsea boots from Joules.