DIY organization ideas for your home and life.
How to Conquer Lid Chaos with Clever Storage Solutions?
Are your kitchen drawers and cupboards overflowing with Tupperware® and other food containers?
No matter how you stack them, their lids never stay in place… Help!
Certainly, food containers are ultra-practical for preserving food longer.
The problem is storing them. Because they quickly clutter up kitchen cabinets and drawers.
Fortunately, there are easy (and inexpensive) tricks to store and organize your Tupperware® containers and lids.
The good news? We’re willing to bet that you already have most of these storage accessories in your kitchen 🙂
So, to have a perfectly organized kitchen, here are 10 great storage ideas to organize your Tupperware® containers
- Use a dish rack to store lids vertically
A simple dish rack, and you’re done!
It’s the perfect accessory for storing your food container lids vertically.
And by organizing them by size, finding the right lid becomes child’s play!
You can find an inexpensive bamboo dish rack ,Here are some best of them.
YouCopia StoreMore Adjustable Pot Lid Organizer
Spectrum Diversified Euro Kitchen Organizer for Plates
Put your dish rack directly in one of your kitchen cabinets.
Or, put it on the countertop if you prefer to have your lids within reach.
- Use an underwear storage box
This is one of the simplest solutions for organizing your food containers of different sizes.
All you need to do is find an underwear storage box like these to transform it into a Tupperware® organizer.
What’s great about this trick is that it works with any type of container.
Here, you simply need to place the organizer in your cupboard or in a large drawer.
And voila! You get a perfect storage solution for your Tupperware® containers.
- Use expandable curtain rods for lids
Tired of the mess Tupperware® lids leave in your drawers?
The trick is to use expandable curtain rods, like these ones.
Since these rods are expandable, they adapt to almost all drawer dimensions.
Simply place them inside the drawer, towards one side, either widthwise or lengthwise.
Just make sure to leave enough space to store your lids without them sliding around.
Note that this trick also works for storing baking sheets, pot lids, etc.
- Use drawer dividers
A few dividers, a bit of organization… and admire the result.
A perfectly organized drawer!
In the photo above, we used adjustable drawer dividers, like these ones.
- Use pegboard to keep your Tupperware® in place
Here’s a homemade solution, just the way we like it.
Place a piece of pegboard flat at the bottom of your drawer.
Then, use large wooden pegs as dividers, and you’re done!
With this system, you can easily keep all your food containers and their lids well organized.
All the materials can be found in any hardware store, or even here on the Internet.
But maybe DIY isn’t really your thing?
Well, know that there are also “ready-made” solutions that use the same pegboard principle.
For example, with this kitchen drawer organizer system, you can store all your Tupperware® containers once and for all.
- Hang a magazine rack behind a cabinet door
Tired of all those lids causing chaos in your cabinets?
The solution is to hang a magazine rack inside the door of one of your kitchen cabinets.
Boom! You get a discreet storage space for your Tupperware® lids.
Now, your lids are easily within reach when you need to store leftovers.
This trick works with any metal mesh magazine rack.
To attach the magazine rack, the easiest way is to use adhesive hooks like these.
Just make sure the mesh holes are large enough to fit the hooks through.
You can also use a wall file organizer and attach it inside the door with short screws.
- Recycle a cereal box.
If you’re looking for the quickest and cheapest solution, here it is!
Take an empty cereal or pasta box, etc. It doesn’t matter what it contained, as long as the box is empty.
Use scissors to cut the top of the box diagonally, as shown in the photo above.
Quick and easy. You now have a storage solution for your food container lids.
To add a personal touch, cover the box with a nice patterned paper and some tape.
- Use a roll-up drying mat.
Maybe you’re already storing all your Tupperware® lids loosely in a small bin?
To optimize your storage, you can use a roll-up drying mat, like this one.
The trick is simple: unroll the mat over the top of the bin where you store your lids.
This way, you can slide the lids into the slots of the mat and keep them neatly organized in a vertical position.
Convenient, isn’t it?
- Use a special storage basket.
Sure! Here’s the translation to English:
“Maybe DIY tips aren’t your style?
If so, be aware that most manufacturers offer their own storage solutions to organize Tupperware® lids.
For example, you can use this 3-compartment storage basket to store all your lids.
- Use a storage net for toys.”
“Here’s one last DIY tip that is easy and affordable.
To organize your lids, the clever trick is to use a storage net for bath toys.
Simply hang it with adhesive hooks and place the net behind a cupboard door.
Put all your lids and small Tupperware inside so that everything is organized easily.
Out of sight, out of mind!”
