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Summary: Dishtowels in the kitchen can be organized near the sink to optimize their use. Learn about dishtowel organization with tips from an organizing expert in this free housekeeping video.
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Abigail Jones Abigail has been organizing her friends' and family-members' household spaces for several years. She is also a freelance writer who lives in Austin, Texas. read more
The most logical place to me to keep your dishtowels, and hand towels are over near the sink, because that's when you're usually going to be using them the most. I don't have any storage space left over by my sink, so I keep mine over here by the oven, which I don't have that big of a kitchen, so it doesn't make that much of a difference. But, I just have all my dish towels folded in here, and just kept in this drawer, and then in another drawer, I have my napkins, and my dish towels, and my tablecloths all in this drawer. I don't have paper napkins, or paper towels, but there are several options for places to store those too. Again, I think the most logical place to keep them is over by the sink. There are, you can find things where you can stand up paper towels. There are lots of containers that you can keep napkins in. You can even just keep napkins in a cup, or on a tray. Just anything to keep them contained in a certain space. So after you use your dish towels, then you also need a place to put your dirty dish towels. And I put them, if you don't have a laundry room, which I don't, I just have this basket here with a removable insert, that I just put all my dirty dish towels, and washcloths that I use for cleaning, and hand towels in here. And then when I want to wash them, I can just take this whole little bag out, and take them to the Laundromat.