Every kitchen have them, it hardly can work without cabinets and it's very messy when they are not in order. The cabinets may be custom designed to store dishes, drinking glasses, cups and bowls, cereal boxes, cooking and baking utensils, silverware and plastic objects, cookbooks and canned goods so you can imagine what would mean to search for something in the entire kitchen without finding it. It's worse when you already started the job (cooking something) and the object you forgot is in the last place you search.
So, from time to time (usually at least once a month) you should cleand and organize your kitchen cupboards. It takes from several minutes (if you are lucky and extremely organized 
) to an undefined number of hours when you have a big kitchen. Or you cleaned it about 2 or 3 years ago, in the summer... 
but in such situation you should fight the spiders and the cockroaches away.
- Clear off a work area first. It can be a table in the middle of the room or something big enough to store the content of any of your kitchen cupboards. The cabinets should be emptied, cleaned and organized one at the time - at least working in an usual manner. If you want to fully reorganize your kitchen it's another manner, but you should consider to have enough space to empy ALL your cupboards... but you will probably overcrowd your items and add much more time to your work.
- Prepare a drawing of your kitchen layout. It helps you organize things, especially when you have written down the list of the items you need in your kitchen.
- Once you emptied one cabinet (at a specific time) wipe then scrub it out, the shelves and the inner door. Consider the best cleaning solution (homemade or from the market) and start scrubbing the cabinet until it shines. Consider to clean the dust and grease that accumulate on the kitchen shelves over time. Important: consider starting from the top of the shelf and work your way down. I think it's clear why... in this manner the gravity won't make your cleaning solution smear your cleaned section.
- Line with shelf paper. It helps keeps your kitchen cupboards clean, it's an nice way to hide unsightly stains which are common in old or very active kitchens.
- Sort before putting items on the cupboard. It's probably the longest part of the job because it's the time to reorganize your items. For example, toss old unused stuff and expired food, relocate to your garage, your storage place or other people things that you use very rare, move items that don't belong to their proper locations.
- Store your cups and glasses, serving plates and dishes in the over-counter cupboards near the sink. The closest to the sink they are the easiest to clean them. Order them considering the usage: generally the drinking glasses are closest to the sink because they are the most used, then the cups, plates and other serving dishes follows.
- Plastic storage bowls and the large plates (for pie or pizza), large glass bowls and other baking dishes should be stored in the kitchen cabinet under the food preparation counter.
- Another cabinet can be devoted to your toaster or blender. On the shelves in the kitchen cupboard above it you should store baking ingredients and spices.
After cleaning your kitchen remember to keep it as ordered as possible. An ordered kitchen helps you to keep it clean a longer time. There are few steps to do that:
- Toss anything you don't use or you don't use often. Let's say you want make bread or pasta, or some cookies once or twice a year, when you remember, you are in the right mood or you have nothing else to do. There is no reason to keep in the kitchen some machines you hardly use - you can always go get them from the garage or anothe storage place or borrow one from your neighbours or friends.
- Replace things that don't work. Such things occupy space doing nothing, you .
- Store frequently-used objects in easy-to-reach locations. It's easier to use them when you just extend your hand and get them, it's extremely easy to clean after usage or to dust when necessary.
