Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Hendrickson/Getty Images Kitchen counters tend to collect a lot: mail, dishes, small appliances, and half-finished meals, ...

A cluttered kitchen counter in a home. - Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images Growing up, I remember walking past a bread machine that sat atop our kitchen counter. For years, I didn't know what ...

Kitchen counters are supposed to be culinary runways, wide open for chopping onions, boiling pasta, and slicing up a juicy farmers' market melon. Instead, many of us treat them like a dumping ground ...