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feed williams f iid feed fed feed fib fid williams says i kind of want to know do you
want to know or do you kind of want to know i kind of want to know what the atom approach
to organizing tupperware would be since it's always a visual cacophony but not in a good way
we have some tupperware in our house and we have some takeout containers
and i'm here to tell you that i think the latter is more useful
in a kitchen where a lot of cooking gets done than the former tupperware is great and like dedicated
glass tupperware stuff is awesome and it's really good to have a few of these a casserole sized one
uh some ones for storing cake and big things like this but about six or seven years ago i went on
amazon and realized you could buy takeout containers like the the the i'll show you
this this is made for uh epoxy and paint mixing by total boat but you know containers like this
the stuff your rice would come in from the chinese food restaurant uh and lids and we have multiple
different sizes and i even have some little small ones so when we're done cooking and we might have
just a few extra bits of jalapeno i've got these little tiny cabs that it could go in
but you asked how i store it i will tell you that the hero tupperware the good stuff
gets stacked all on always the lids are kept with the pieces because if you lose the lid of a
specific piece of tupperware it's awful so they're put together with the lids and stacked inside one
of our kitchen cabinets and there's no rhyme or reason to that they're just stacked big too small
big to small in a tower yeah it is a visual cacophony and i am blessed that i have a lot
of storage space in my kitchen but the takeout containers we've got like probably i don't know
75 separate little containers of different sizes some small ones bigger ones taller ones
narrower ones square ones etc and those go in a specific drawer in a specific organizational
strategy and it is big cups first followed by medium cups stacked with smaller cups
and the lids are all separate the specific round containers we use all use the same lid so we've
got like 75 of those and the cups all go in stacks it allows for a nice tight packing uh we also keep
all those rectangular takeout containers that like your big entrees come from in the from the
from the delivery place we keep those there's a specific size we like and i think there's
two specific sizes that we like and we throw out all the others because you can go crazy
trying to store everything and you have to you can you will go crazy if you try and store everything
it's like the uh the old quote i don't know the key to success but i know the key to failure is
trying to please everyone yeah there's too many different kinds of takeout containers for you
to store all of them you got to make a call and you got to be rigorous about that call so
there's one more level to this so tupperware lives over in one of
the cabinets the takeout containers live in a drawer and above that drawer live all the glass
containers the ball jars the jelly jars and ball jars now like any household we go through
jams and jellies and other small things that come in glass jars with metal lids and for
the longest time we stored all of them and it was a nightmare because we almost never used them
so we now have a policy we get rid of all the jars with metal lids except for the ball jars
because they all use the same lids okay there are two sizes of ball jars yes we have large lids and
small lids but effectively they are all the same system so the lids all go in plastic bags and the
jars all stack up in a drawer that happens to sit right above the takeout container drawer so all
of our stuff for putting away stuff into smaller compartments and save it for later so we can keep
eating it and be virtuous human beings which we fail at all the time it all lives in one place
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