Affordable and Easy Ways to Organize Your Kitchen

22 cheap and easy kitchen organization ideas and tips

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Genius Tips and Ideas to Organize Every Inch of your Kitchen

Sometimes you just need some really easy ways to organize your kitchen.

The kitchen is one of those areas that has so much stuff crammed into so many different areas, it’s easy for it all to start looking like a complete disaster area. The problem, of course, is that our kitchens are probably one of the most used areas of the home. If we can’t keep everything neat and tidy, just the simple act of pulling together a snack for the kiddos can become a huge time suck!

Do you ever worry about a pile of baking sheets toppling over when you go to make some cookies? Are all of your corn cob holders impossible to find when you need them? And how about your spices? Oh, don’t even get me started on the spices. We’ve tried risers, but the little jar of pumpkin spice is still impossible to find when I need it!

Now, we can’t just go out and renovate our kitchen with all of the bells and whistles and handy storage compartments already built in. Instead, what I’ve pulled together here are some super-simple, inexpensive ways to to keep your kitchen neat, tidy, and well-organized.

Easy Ways to Organize Your Kitchen: Must have items for cheap kitchen organization

Getting your cabinets and all of your little bits and pieces in order is going to be so fast and easy, you’ll be slapping your head for not thinking of these things sooner.

All you need to start organizing your kitchen are these 3 things:

simple supplies for kitchen organization

Small tension rods can be purchased in packs of three from Amazon for around $6. They make great dividers and help hold various items in your kitchen upright instead of stacking them up on top of each other.

Command Hooks are the duct tape of kitchen organization. These little miracle workers pull their weight by helping you move nearly anything to a door instead of having it take up space in a cabinet. Regular hooks are also useful, but Command hooks in particular have that wonderful sticky back system which is perfect for anything you don’t necessarily want to keep permanently in place. Also, they come in many different useful sizes.

Magazine files, or magazine holders, help to stack things up vertically in a space so that you can use the inside of your cabinets more efficiently. The mess file folders in the photo above are $6.99 for a pack of two, but you also find plastic or cardboard ones for less.

Ok, now that you have the basics of what you’ll be using to get your kitchen in order, let me share with you some really genius, easy ways of using these items in your kitchen. Check out the images below for the ultimate kitchen storage hacks.

Easy Ways to Organize Your Kitchen: Use Magazine Files to Go Vertical in Your Pantry

1. Keep Paper Plates and Napkins in Order

A simple Dollar store magazine file helps keep paper plates and napkins contained (via Organizing Made Fun)

dollar store kitchen organization hack using magazine rack for storage

2. Store your Canned Goods

Store your cans vertically (via PB&J Stories)

using magazine holder for pantry organization

3. Keep Spaghetti in Place

Use this idea from Mom with a Prep) to keep spahetti boxes lined up neatly

using a magazine holder for pantry pasta storage

4. A Place for Your Potatoes and Onions

Potatoes and onions can still breath in these mesh file folders (but apparently onions and potatoes living side-by-side is a no-no) (via Mimi’s Crafty World)