Kayelle
Chef Extraordinaire
Welcome to Discuss Cooking. This is the place to ask questions - everyone has an opinion. If you learn to cook as well as you write, you should be a star in no time flat.
I agree that it's amazing how fast you can fill up your kitchen with stuff, even if you shop sensibly. (and most of us aren't as sensible as we could be) We just moved into a house with a smaller kitchen and far less cabinet space than either of our two previous homes. We had to convert a coat closet in the dining room into a pantry/pot and appliance storage closet. We finally have room to properly store the bread machine, 16 qt stockpot, 9 qt oval dutch oven, KA Pro 600 mixer, roasting pan, and a ton of durable can and paper goods and the like. And I now actually have a bit of counter space to use for prep work and making bread dough.
My biggest problem is, and always has been, my utensil drawers. They are always too full, no matter how often I cull out the unneeded stuff. If I buy one new item, I have to then sit down and figure out what I can get rid of.
Anyway, welcome and don't be shy.
That's the truth Blackitty! Welcome from me too.
Rick, experimenting with my new untensil drawers, I've found that rubberized drawer liner keeps things from sliding around. I've also discovered that it's better if spatulas and big spoons (I have a ton of them) are better stored turned over with the handles to the back of the drawer. Hope that helps.