You Must Use This Carton Drink Holder As a Kitchen Organizer

Those little cardboard cup holders you get when you make coffee at the office are very handy for exactly what you need them for at the moment, but once you take the cups out, they seem to have served their purpose too quickly. But before you toss them in the bin or trash can, consider recycling them as your newest organizational tool in the kitchen.

I got one of these the other day ( because I did some hefty Dunkin orders from time to time ) and decided to give it a second life by organizing a few items in my fridge. At first I thought it was best for condiments, especially small bottles that hide behind larger items. This was helpful on its own, but didn’t greatly reduce the impact of the four spices I chose; in any case, now they took up more space.

The utility will come in handy if you have a lot of things stacked. The cup holder allows you to complement the stack with items that are usually too round, too unstable or too small to stack. It also makes it easier to retrieve them when you need them, saving you the hassle of moving around a bunch of items and rummaging around for seasoning at the very end.

I especially liked the option of using it to store the finished biscuit dough because it is one of those things that is not visible inside the door compartments and is easily forgotten. If you put it vertically in the cup holder, it will become more visible, which means less disappearance.

You can also use the drink holder to organize food in the fridge or on the counter. I had avocados and onions that kept turning over whenever I tried to use the coffee pot, so that kept them in place, although they certainly took up more space on the countertop. I also had a garlic bulb that was missing a few cloves so the other cloves kept falling off and making a mess. I stuffed the whole thing into one of the drink slots and it worked great to keep the flaky porridge and wayward cloves from spilling all over the counter.

Place one in a drawer to make it easier to organize small items like chip clips, cupcake wrappers, or twist ties. If you enjoy growing your own vegetables or herbs, you can even use small cardboard cups as starter seeds by filling them with soil and planting the seeds until they are ready to be taken outside. Because cardboard is biodegradable, you can simply put it directly into the ground or into a pot.