Let's talk the always a mess Tupperware cabinet!

I don't have a system. I have a drawer and I can never find anything in it. I am thinking of getting one of those pegboard systems to see if that helps. Baskets might work too, but it would require my family to actually stack the dishes that are supposed to be stacked instead of just throwing everything willy nilly into the drawer.

In a fit of rage I threw out all of my cheap Gladware and went to Costco and bought color coded Snapware. The lids match the rubber seal so I hardly have to think about what goes where. I bought plastic sectioned holders and align the lids in size and ROYGBIV order to soothe my former merchandiser soul.

The lids are all aligned above the bottoms. The bottoms are stacked and aligned in the same order under their lids. It's a PITA when you want to quickly empty the dishwasher, but my life is a little less chaotic when I take the time to be organized. I keep all of my Tupperware in a tall pantry. Taking it out of the random cabinet also helped force me to be more mindful and organized.

I have 2 drawers. Bowls in one drawer, lids in the other. Works well enough for me. And the kids have figured it out enough to put everything away when they empty the dishwasher, so I figure that's a win.

I had a system that was working for a while and then it didn't. 

I had three rows in the cabinet, I stacked according to shape, and nested everything inside of each other.

Left row was rectangles

Middle Row was squares

Right Row was circular


Then on the top shelf  I had magazine file boxes (from Dollar Tree I think? This is what I am referring to Magazine file box) and put the corresponding shaped cover in there. And labeled it for the rest of the family. You should have heard DH looking for covers, muttering to himself, okay what shape do I need? Ha ha.

It worked like a dream for a while and then it didn't. I think some bottoms were thrown out and no one told me or something because I have an excess of tops with no bottoms.

But that seemed to work. The magazine file box idea I got from an organizer girl on Youtube, she had some other great organizing ideas.

Edited to add:  This is a link to her ideas, though I can't recall where I saw her idea where she used the magazine file box (it may have been someone else entirely from Pinterest my apologies). However she has other great videos/ideas.
Alejandra organizing

We've slowly switched over to nearly all glass jars for actual food items that we keep at home. Then we just have one cupboard with plastic containers for the kids to use in their lunches, and they are all Rubbermaid Lunch Blox, so they all fit into one another beautifully and we can just make neat stacks of them.

The only other plastic rubbermaid we use for food at home now are very large rectangles, and again, because they are all the same size, we just have one stack of them. That's for things like baked goods or pizza, that are too large to put into glass jars.

I bought all rubbermaid for lunches/leftovers and I just nest the same size bowls/containers inside each other and put the corresponding lids under those bowls/containers. The lids all snap together so they don't get lost.

The few larger tupperwear bowls I have that have lids, I do the same with. I nest them large to small and keep the lids stacked under them.

I stack like sized containers together and then I keep a bin next to it to hold lids. I organize the lid bin when I put the dishes away (because when other people empty the dishwasher they just toss the lids in the bin). It only takes me about 30 seconds to get it tidied up. About once every couple of months, I take everything out and make sure there are no containers without lids or vice versa, and I throw away anything that is getting worn out.

Add me to the "dumped the mismatched old tupperware for Rubbermaid" group. I did keep a few of my old items that I couldn't find in Rubbermaid (large bowls mostly). This really helped me organize and I think I have more pieces now too in the same space.

If you open my Tupperware cabinet, move back quickly before everything tumbles onto your toes. This thread has me considering switching my Tupperware to a drawer instead of a cabinet....hmmmm.....

I got rid of all my Tupperware a while back due to bpa concerns and switched to Rubbermaid containers with the easy find lids. The containers stack nicely and I keep the lids standing on their sides in a bin.

I have a variety of different brands and sizes because that seems to work best for us. I prep ahead and need containers for that. We cook large meals to specifically have leftovers so that's more containers. And we both take lunches to work regularly.

I have two cabinets dedicated to all the various storage containers. The smaller ones go in the upper cabinet and the larger in the lower. I store everything with its lid on so they take up more room that way, but we never have to matching game which is a real plus when the containers are as mismatched as ours.

This is what I do too.