Water Bottle Storage & Organization Ideas

Below I've gathered several water bottle storage and organization ideas provided by readers, showing practical real world ways they keep these bottles from getting so out of control.


There's a few organizational challenges when dealing with water bottles. The first is that you've got to keep track of the bottle itself, and a lid, and sometimes a few other parts as well.

In addition, they aren't easily stackable normally, are not typically uniform in size if you've got a hodgepodge collection of them like we do in our family, and they easily fall over causing an avalanche when you open a cabinet door, if that's where you keep them.

That's why I recently got this reader question:

Water bottle storage ideas would be great! We run a lot and at races we get lots of water bottles and we always use them, but for the life of me, I have not figured out a functional storage solution for them. It seems to me that it should be simple. Lol.

So I asked readers what they did, and I got many suggestions

The most popular ideas are shown below. I'd love to get even more ideas for organizing these bottles though (we do it as part of the Kitchen Cabinet & Drawer Organization Challenge), so if you have your own suggestions (especially with pictures) make sure you submit them here and I'll add the best ones to the page.

Make sure before you begin organizing them all though that you declutter water bottles, travel mugs and plastic cups as part of the Declutter 365 mission, so you're only organizing and storing the bottles you truly love and will use.


Top photo courtesy of MrsTG

Simple Water Bottle Organization Hack: Use An Over The Door Shoe Organizer!

So the most popular idea provided by readers, and that seems to really work long term, is to put up an over the door shoe organizer on the back of your pantry door and use that to hold the bottles.

I love this idea because they're easily accessible, you can't keep more on hand then you actually have slots for (so you can feel OK with chucking the cheap bottles you seem to get at every function) and the lids stay with them this way!

The picture above was provided by a reader, Tonya.

You can get these organizers here:

Here's similar ideas from other readers who've implemented the same idea. This picture is from Jillian.



And this photo below is from Shelley.

Wine Racks Make A Great Water Bottle Storage Rack

Another idea for storing these bottles and travel mugs, is to use a wine rack.

Wine racks can help you store and organize your bottles in many different places in your kitchen, including inside a kitchen cabinet, on a pantry shelf, or even out on the kitchen counter.

The top photo in the above collage was sent in by a reader, Amy, who said, "I use wooden wine racks that match my cabinets! Several are in the sink and not in the rack right now because, well, football."

The bottom photo in the collage is from another reader, Mary Jo, who explained, "I have two small wine racks on my counter."

You can get wine racks here:

Stackable Water Bottle Storage Racks For Counters Or Cabinets

A very popular storage solution that I first showcased on the Household Management 101 Facebook page, is this stackable water bottle storage rack.

It can be used on a counter, or inside a cabinet or on a pantry shelf, to keep these bottles easy to grab and ready for use.

They come in a variety of shapes and sizes to fit the number of water bottles you need to store, and the shape of the place you want to use the rack. You can get them here:

Keep Water Bottles Filled & Chilled In Refrigerator

One reader wrote in to share this simple storage idea, store your bottles in the fridge!

She explained, "I do not store empty, clean water bottles. Once they are cleaned I fill them with water and put them in the refrigerator. I only have enough water bottles for each member of my family, plus 2."

Keep The Bottles In A Bin To Containerize Them

One of the big problems with water bottles, travel mugs and other types of portable cups is that they fall over in cabinets.

To keep this from being a problem you can place them in a container. Your container could be on a shelf, life the reader above, Anna, showed. She explained, "I keep mine in that red bin on the shelf. I get water bottles at different places I go on vacation. So I went through and put ones I use in there and I am going to find a different place for the other ones."

Or, you can place the container inside a cabinet, just to keep all of the bottles together, but yet it is hidden away then.

The key is to only keep as many bottles as will fit into the container without overflowing, so when you get a new one and it starts to be too full, you will know it is time to get rid of some of the ones you don't like as well.

Here's another photo of water bottles in a wire bin as an example, as shown by a reader, Linda. She explained she recently decluttered hers, saying, "Got it down to 10 from 22. Now they all fit in the basket."

So What Are Your Storage & Organization Ideas For These Bottles?

Finally, this is a photo from a reader, Leslie. She said, "This has saved my life! Ours used to be in a cabinet above the microwave and when I opened the doors I would risk one falling on my face. This is also coffee mugs and protein shake bottles."

Now it's your turn. What ideas and suggestions do you have for storing water bottles? I'd love to hear, or better yet, to see.

You can submit your own ideas and pictures here and I'll add the best ones to the page.

More Home Storage Solutions

I hope you enjoyed these ideas for storing travel mugs and water bottles in your home.

There are even more ideas for storage and organizing on the site in the {A-Z} Storage Solutions & Ideas round up page. Go check it out if you'd like to see even more ideas.

In addition, if these ideas have inspired you to organize even more things in your kitchen make sure to read the Kitchen Cabinet & Drawer Organization Challenge, which is part of the 52 Week Organized Home Challenge I run on the site!

You can also join the 52 Week Organized Home Challenge here. It's free!

Each week in the challenge we tackle a different area or type of item in our home, and slowly, over the course of the year you'll get your whole home organized, along with developing habits and routines to keep it that way!

Are you ready for the challenge?


Photos below, of shoe organizer, courtesy of readers, Denise and Brooke

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