Summer is officially over and it’s time to address the container drawer chaos. You’ve been shoving mismatched lids and tubs into what now resembles a ziggurat, a holy mess, for the past three months. Guests have contributed their containers to your shrine as well. Did you honor their containers? You did not. In they went, with their now-step-brethren, separated from their lids, and lost.

Several years ago, my friend and I discussed plastic containers (but not Tupperware, even though we might mistakenly…