Plastic Container Wrangling
Organizing Tupperware and assorted plastic containers has been a bane.
Lots of lids, or maybe no lids.
Lots of oddly sized or broken containers.
Lots of lots.
So I made a pledge, all plastic containers with lids would be lidded in the cupboard. I don’t care if I’m wasting space, I just don’t care. I won’t have plastic lidded containers without lids in my home.
I took the largest cardboard box that would fit in our cupboard and cut off the flaps.
I carved out a shape in the front of the box with an exacto knife.
All the filled Rubbermaid and Tupperware and Gladware and Reynoldsware and all of that goes in this box.
If the box gets full, then I have too many containers.
And due to plastic contamination paranoia, the only food use containers I reuse are glass spaghetti sauce jars and artichoke jars. This is unlike my parents and sister, who save every salsa container and Cool Whip container in case of container emergency.
I must claim my independence in the ways I know how…
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I do the same thing with a drawer – it’s full of my plastic-ware and it’s not very big. I recycle them and buy new ones every once in a while but there’s not much room in the drawer.
I do the same thing with my tupperware containers and the lids. I hate trying to find the mates. Much easier this way even if it takes up a lot more space.