Works For Me Wednesdays: The Kitchen Organization Edition

Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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This week's WFMW theme is kitchen organization. Since we live in a townhouse and have a tiny kitchen, we have to be creative about storage. One thing I recently started to do was to keep a little wooden tray in the space between the top of the refrigerator and the kitchen cabinets located just above it. In this tray, I keep colorful magnets of all different geometric shapes. My preschooler loves to create pictures with these on the fridge, but with all the other notes, pictures, and character magnets already on there, it just gets too cluttered to leave the shapes on the fridge all the time. Now if he wants to play, I just take the tray down for him.

You can use the tray to store anything else that is relatively flat, like take-out menus for example. Don't forget that it gets pretty warm up there from your refrigerator running, so don't put anything up there that could melt easily.

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5 comments
  1. The first time I had my own apartment I couldn't realize why my bread went bad so quickly... I was keeping it on top of my fridge. Big no no! Love your tip. Blessings, Whitney

    Posted on October 1, 2008 at 12:27 AM

     
  2. This is a great idea! We live overseas in a small apt where space is always an issue. Thanks for this tip!

    Posted on October 1, 2008 at 7:36 AM

     
  3. SuperNoots Said,

    So, what you're saying is... my refrigerator doesn't have to look like an advertisement for Leap Frog? :)

    Posted on October 1, 2008 at 12:06 PM

     
  4. Wow! The only thing I'm storing in the space above my fridge is gooey dust. I'll fix that first thing in the morning. Thanks for a great tip!

    Posted on October 1, 2008 at 11:04 PM

     
  5. Great idea! Only I would probably put them on a spare/old cookie sheet instead of the wooden tray. That way, the magnets actually stick to the surface, so they would be less likely to dump off as I was taking them down (I'm short, so I have to consider these things!), and it would make a portable play surface that my child could play with at the table or in another place if right at the fridge turned out to be "underfoot."

    Posted on October 29, 2008 at 3:01 AM

     

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