Kitchen organization will put you at ease in your kitchen and save you a lot of time. The majority of time spent in the home is in the kitchen or the living room. The funny thing is that there are probably 300 more items in the kitchen to be dealt with than any other room. If your kitchen is the busiest room in the house, then it is probably the most cluttered, too.

 
In this hurried life, it's so easy for things to pile up quickly. Luckily, the organizing products industry has taken off like a speeding bullet, making it easier to achieve kitchen organization like never before. Many are learning to simplify and get things organized in order to have a more peaceful life.

• Putting similar items together will help you save time and energy. If you pack a lunch everyday, be sure that all the lunch items are stored in the same cabinet. Some of these items might include sandwich bags, bread, lunch side items, peanut butter, etc. Likewise, put all the baking items together in the same cabinet, etc. 

• Utilizing space efficiently is a major key to kitchen organization. One way to do this is to use the inside of the cabinet door. You can add a food wrap holder for items such as foil, parchment, wax paper, etc. On another door you could hang your cutting board and on another door your strainer or splatter guard. Anything with a hole in it can be hung on a door. Measuring spoons can hang on cuphooks on a door.

• Take a good look at your kitchen counters. Make room in a cabinet for any items on the counters that are not being used weekly. Go through your cookbooks and donate the unused. Stand the cookbooks up inside of a cabinet or put up a shelf in the kitchen somewhere to get them off the counter. You are on your way to complete kitchen organization!

• Clearing up the outside of the refrigerator makes the kitchen look cleaner and less cluttered. Put older pictures in the photo albums, toss out magnets with phone numbers you never use or write them in your address book. File away older artwork and only keep current artwork on there.

• Consider this: Do you really need to have three whip cream containers with the label coming off and tomato sauce stains in them? If you have leftover old food containers, toss them out! Saving them comes from our parents and grandparents that did this before so many choices of stackable plastic containers were available. Only save however many leftovers you could possibly have from a big holiday dinner. 

• Treat the top of the refrigerator as a counter. It will look much better without clutter on top. Find a home for items that have landed there.

• Just take one cabinet at a time, getting rid of gadgets, small appliances, and other items that are never used. Organizing a whole kitchen to optimum efficiency does not happen over night. Keep in mind that if any space is cluttered or packed full of things, the average person will avoid looking in there and so most of the items are not utilized. Things need to be accessible or they won't get used!
  
  Kitchen organization needs to be revisited every few years to keep it decluttered and running smoothly. 

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