Five unexpected ways to use a Lazy Susan

If you haven’t heard of a Lazy Susan, it’s a friendly moniker for a spinning home organizer… turntable style. If you know what it us, but don’t have at least one in a kitchen cabinet somewhere, we bet you’re like us — harboring a sneaking suspicion that our lives would be so much better if we just got a little more organized. Did you know that good ol’ Susie works her magic in so many places around the house besides the kitchen? Here are five ideas for exactly where she can help you get your hard-to-reach items more easily — in areas you might not expect.

Bar cart substitute

On our list of priorities, alcohol always ranks high. Don’t have a bar cart? No problem. Those take up a lot of space anyhow. Instead, keep your bottles of booze organized in the cupboard on a Lazy Susan, and just bring it on out to the table or counter for the party. The photo is conservative, we know, but just imagine your scotch, tequila, rum and other covid cocktail faves crammed onto this rotating server, which could double as a tray. We advise a large size. Go for 18 inches!

Corral your cosmetics

You can use a Lazy Susan to organize your makeup. This black two-tiered spinner from mDesign maximizes space for all your cosmetics in your cupboard, but you could even keep this one on the counter. Added bonus? You can see how many lipsticks you already own, before you impulse-buy another.

Find stuff in your fridge

This textured turntable is an Amazon’s Choice item because it minimizes slippage, with a removable silicon mat that’s easy to whip out to give it a wipe. What are you waiting for? The longer you linger on this literary litany, the more you’ll prolong our proclivity for absolutely excessive alliteration.

Make remembering your vitamins easier

In our house, the vitamins don’t qualify as decorative items, so they languish in the back of a cupboard while we forget to take them. A Lazy Susan is a great way to organize your vitamins, and also to remember to take them. Take action on your best intentions by bringing them to the forefront of your cupboards, and therefore the frontal lobe of your brain.

Maybe not that unexpected, but hey! Set the table with a Lazy Susan

A wood Lazy Susan on the table means you don’t have to worry about how long your uncle will monologue during dinner. You can get that second helping without interrupting him to request a mashed potato pass. We like this gorgeous mango wood offering from Mikasa. The handles make it easy to bring to the table extra loaded.