I love it when a plan for a project actually works. When I created the spice drawer in my kitchen I didn’t know that it would turn out to be one of my better ideas.
It has worked so well for us. If you have the space I HIGHLY recommend this method. I still keep all of the overflow in the cabinet – which is a disaster. I truly wish that I didn’t have any cabinets in my kitchen. I think that they should all be pull out drawers. You pull out the drawer, you can clearly see what you have, and there is NO chaos.
While this system has been working for us for the past five months, I have tweaked it slightly. I added a spring drawer divider to help keep things from shifting too much. I love the padded vinyl liner that I added originally, but everything was still shifting about.
Another thing that I am changing out are the canning lids. The two piece lids are a pain in the keister. They are fine for canning, but not so great for the spice drawer. My first thought was to go to Amazon. That’s usually my first stop for most everything. Anything to keep me out of a real store and in my yoga pants.
I found these little beauties right off the bat. You can get 16 for $10.95. And then my frugal brain kicked in. I would need at least two sets just for the spices I have in my drawer now. That’s almost $22 for lids my brain said to me. Because in the back of my mind, I knew that I was taking lids to the recycle center each week from my Classico jars, Almond butter jars, etc.
So I decided to go the cheap route and reuse those lids instead.
Wash them and stick on the handy dandy labels that I still have a plethora of, and voila!
One piece lids that don’t come apart every time I open one of my spices. No, they are not as pretty as the lovely red ones, but they function exactly the way I want them to. And that $22.00 will go into the “Let’s go places” fund. Twenty-two dollars will buy hot dogs on a corner in New York, right? We’ll see.
Maybe this winter I’ll paint the lids I have, but I doubt it. 😀 Do you have a spice drawer yet?
Thanks for the reminder about having a spice drawer! We’re gutting the kitchen of our just purchased 1960 home. I’m adding a lot of things that I’ve always thought would be nice to have. Not fancy stuff, but practical, and something that maybe other homemakers would appreciate when the time comes to sell. And, a spice area is on the list!
Good luck with your renovation!