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By Ann
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By Tawnda
If you use them for leftovers, lunches and dry goods storage, most of these containers should be in continuous use, therefore not cluttering up a cupboard most of the time. If you only use some of them intermittently (e.g. in autumn for freezing produce), do they need to be stored in a kitchen cupboard? Box and label "autumn freezing containers" or whatever and store somewhere else. Are there any containers you never use - get rid of them. Are there any stained ones, one's with missing lids or bottoms, warped ones - get rid of them.
When you have weeded out the extras store lids, graduated from small to large, in lidded plastic container(s) and bottoms 'nesting' in each other in another plastic container(s). This keeps them dustfree and makes wiping out the cupboard shelves much easier - you don't have to remove every container individually. When you need a container you can take out the whole boxful and search for it at work top height - saves poking around in the back of the cupboard.
By Jo
It helps to put the container away in the same area after unloading the dishwasher, instead of cramming them in the cupboard to "sort out later."
Also I try to store the containers upside down, which looks funny in the cupboard, but it's in case any dust settles or the dishes aren't quite dry, etc. It all drains off the containers or doesn't affect the inside of the containers where the food actually goes.
By Angie
Related: 
Organizing Tupperware and Plastic Containers
By
02/20/2009
FYI, I'd recommend not freezing or heating foods in plastic Tupperware as this has been shown to cause the leaching of plastic molecules into the food. This would go for waterbottles as well. I use plastic Tupperware for room temperature or cold foods and small glass containers with rubber lids (Pyrex or Anchor brand) for foods that are going to be heated or frozen. The glass containers also resist staining much more. If you're in doubt, there are a number of studies on the internet you could locate.
By CEra (Guest Post)
06/04/2008
What I did was I bought three different sized baskets with flip lids. I have small medium and large. I put all of the containers stacked inside one another in the large and the lids in the medium. For the small, there was enough room for both the small little containers and their lids.
It keeps them hidden too so it doesn't look such a mess. Yet my problem then is that I'm guilty for taking everything out of each to find the matching container and lid. Then it never gets back in where the lid closes properly again. HAha
Maybe some part of this post could help you with organizing your tupperware though. I thought the basket thing was a good idea. :):)
By
03/18/2007
I've spent much of the weekend cleaning and organizing my kitchen cupboards. We just replaced our chest freezer in the garage with an upright one. I kept the freezer baskets, which are deep and rectangular shaped. The leftover shelf paper was just the right width to weave through the wires of the freezer baskets, and they fit just right in my large lower corner cabinets. In one basket I stacked the microwavable tupperware bowls on one end, and on the other end I lined the pop-up lids upright that go with the bowls. The shelf paper keeps the lids from falling out the sides of the wire basket. I did the same with the other basket using stackable tupperware storage bowls and containers on one side and the corresponding lids on the other side of the basket. All I will have to do when I need a particular tupperware item is pull the basket instead of going through the stacks of tupperware. The larger pieces, like the wonderlier bowls, I stacked on the shelf in groups with lids under them, and one lid on top bowl to keep clean. The round lids like the basketball sized one I stacked in a tall layer cake tupperware container with cover. Rarely use it for cake, so in the meantime this keeps my lids neat and in one place. Found a neat way to use a pretty red pie carrier with white cover, and that is to stack paper plates in it. Saves on cupboard space in two ways, because it looks nice sittiing on the white tile countertop... don't have to find a spot in the cupboards for that or the paper plates.
By
03/16/2007
I only buy the cheap Gladware, from the Dollar store, because my husband loves to melt my Tupperware in the microwave. I have a deep drawer that I keep my Gladware containers in, I put all the lids onto the containers and then stack them in the drawer; that way, my husband, who can't match a lid to a container for some reason, already has a complete set when he pulls them from the drawer.
By
03/16/2007
I just sent all my old plastic microwave containers to the thrift store, and replaced them with plastic containers from the Dollar Tree store. I bought 5 sizes...large rectangular, medium round, small round, medium square and small square. This seems to take care of all my needs. I freeze leftovers in them to reheat for another meal. They stack nicely in the freezer, and I store mine in my corner lazy susan cabinet. The thing I like about the ones from the Dollar Tree (Glad are about the same) is that I can stack each size 6 high, and stack all six lids on the top of the stack. They take very little room this way. And I can stack the small ones on top of the medium ones of the same shape. Sure has saved me a lot of space, plus all the time that I used to spend finding the lid to match the container I had just filled. And having them all slide out to meet me when I turned the lazy susan to retrieve one.
Harlean from Arkansas
By
03/16/2007
I do have a lot of Tupperware... but I also do a lot of do-ahead meal preparation and freezing of leftovers. I have a cabinet just for my Tupperware... and I stack the small containers inside the larger ones. And then I have two drawers for lids... one for round lids and one for square lids.
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