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Everyday Items That Shouldn't Be Left On The Kitchen Counter By Fletcher Huntley Aug. 27, 2025 1:40 pm EST

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 for life's leftovers. With keys, mail, chargers, yesterday's pastry bag, and a rogue dog leash, suddenly your open concept kitchen feels like a storage unit with a sink and a stove.

That's why knowing what to remove from kitchen counters is just as important as knowing what belongs there. They're food prep zones, which means anything that doesn't directly contribute to eating is either taking up space or, worse, getting dirty and spreading germs.

This isn't a

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