How I Organize My Kitchen with 100-Yen Store Materials

Organizing your kitchen is challenging when you are on a budget. Luckily, in Japan, there are tons of 100-yen shops where you can buy affordable items. However, because there are many choices, it’s difficult to decide which ones to buy. Thus, you may end up buying some stuff that you don’t even use, which is wasteful.

That’s why I’m sharing the 100-yen goodies that I use for organizing my kitchen. I hope this could help you guys!

1. Retractable Pole

This is one of my favorite items because you can do various things with it. I use it as a curtain rod, a pole where I hang pots (in my previous kitchen), and as a support for my grid wall, where I hang my cooking utensils.

2. Metal Grid

I use this one with the retractable pole. Metal grids usually come with some screws, so you could hang them on your wall but most of the apartment owners in Japan don’t allow you to do that or if you did, you need to pay a fine when you leave.

So, it’s quite useful to partner this item up with a retractable pole so you could create a wall where you can hang baskets and hooks, which you can also buy in a 100-yen shop. With this, I don’t need to put tons of holes in my wall, saving me a lot of repair money.

I use cable ties to fasten the parts of the metal grid and with the rods.

3. Curtains

If you know how to sew by hand or by machine, you can make curtains out of fabrics available in 100-yen shops. I utilize this to cover spaces that I think are not visually pleasing or to lessen visual clutter.

4. Pan Organizer

For those who can’t hang their pans, you can just buy a pan organizer and hide it under your sink. You can buy this in Daiso although it does cost more than 100 yen, which I don’t think is bad. It’s a piece of robust equipment that could hold up to 4 pans.

5. Wooden Plate Organizer

I don’t utilize this for my plates alone, but I also stack my slender wooden plates on top of it, by turning them upside-down. Then underneath, there’s a small space where I could put more tiny plates.

6. Plastic/ Wooden Boxes

You could put anything in it. These, again, lessen visual clutter and help you categorize the same items together, making it easier to locate things.

7. Basket

It has the same purpose as the boxes, but this one adds more aesthetic to your kitchen. Personally, I love how baskets look and in this case it fits the color theme of my house, which is green and brown.

8. Sticker/ Magnet Hooks

Like I said before, drilling holes in your apartment in Japan will costs you money, so using magnetized or sticker hooks comes in handy. So far, the sticker hooks that I bought from Daiso are still holding pretty well.

I’ve used suction cups before, but they usually fall after a couple of weeks, hence I completely stopped using them. Sticker and magnet hooks are more reliable.

9. Sauce Bottles

For me, I don’t like seeing bottles with random labels out in my kitchen. It just looks messy. That’s why I prefer to hide them. However, I don’t have enough space under my sink and I don’t have a cupboard. I don’t have a choice but to put them out.

But instead of leaving the bottle as it is, I transfer them to more aesthetically pleasing flasks. Although they have different shapes, they are all made in glass, which still gives a unified look.

10. Bags

Since I like buying huge quantities of potatoes, onions, and garlic, I put them into bags to organize them. I like bags that are made out of jute or cheesecloth because it gives you a rustic look.

So, that is my list on how I organize my kitchen using 100-yen materials. How about you? How do you keep your kitchen clean and tidy?  Comment down below.

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