Organizing your kitchen isn't always the most pleasant of tasks - especially when it comes to cleaning out the refrigerator.
However, as only you have the power to remember to throw away those leftovers sitting in the back of your friedge in a decaying Tupperware bowl, I cannot help you with that.
What I can help you with, however, is how to free up and utilize some of the space on your kitchen counters being taken up by bread, fruit, and other bits and bobs.
Below are five of my favourite things currently available online to help free up counter space, and make your kitchen look as tidy and as colourful as it can:
1. Joseph Joseph Vinyl Worktop Saver
While this is actually adding something to your counter top, it is a cool thing to add to your countertop. This tough, glass tray can be used as a cutting board, or to serve up snacks at a party.
$29.99, modcloth.com
2. Simplicity Bread Bin
This metal bread bid is the perfect new home for your loaves of carbohydrates. Better in a cute bin than hanging out, taking up room for preparing food. Or margaritas. Whatever.
£22, littlewoods.com
3. Takeout Menus Booklet
We all have a drawer or pile of shame. A pile of glossy, leaflets that have been shoved through our mail slot, forcing us to buy eight pizzas, and get one bottle of Pepsi free. They take up plenty of room, so why not shove them all in a hardcover, three-ring binder, such as this one?
$19.99, thinkgeek.com
4. Joseph Joseph Elevate Carousel
Much better than shoving all of your nice utensils in a drawer, and cleaner than just dropping sauce covered spoons on the counter, this carousel will help keep your kitchen more hygienic. (Plus, look how nice those utensils are!)
£50, urbanoutfitters.co.uk
5. Banana Bag
I have a banana tree, but I never use it, so my bananas usually just sit there the counter. And then I throw them away because they're too ripe. My poor bananas can't win - and that's exactly why the banana bag intrigues me so.
Put your bananas inside this bag, and then put it in the fridge, and, according to Lakeland, the bag will provide the bananas with the "exact amount of insulation and air needed to stop the flesh over-ripening, while keeping the skin warm enough to prevent blackening." Amazing, right?
£5.79, lakeland.co.uk