Have you peeked into the cabinet under your kitchen sink lately? It might be a space you avoid looking at simply because you’ve stuffed it with so many odds and ends and can’t seem to keep it tidy. If only cleaning the space under the kitchen sink was as easy as learning how to clean the kitchen sink itself.
Just picture it: Endless stacks of kitchen towels, dish-washing and cleaning supplies, old sponges, recycled paper bags—the list of items that most people categorize as eligible for under-the-sink storage goes on and on.
Requests for an organized kitchen are at the top of most people’s wish lists, says Ginny Underwood, a professional organizer and founder of Virginia’s Easy Living Solutions in Bluffton, South Carolina. The cabinet under your kitchen sink is a good place to start purging and organizing. It’s often one of the most easily cluttered spaces, thanks to the maze of pipes that also live there. A good rule of thumb? “Reserve [this] cabinet for cleaning items that relate to the kitchen only,” Underwood says. That means supplies you use for other parts of your home—from toilet cleaner to feather dusters—need to be evicted….