Could this work?

Er, so nobody is likely to care about this, but anyways, I thought about it walking home from the grocery store (mostly because being entirely unable to solve my current space/storage issues makes me turn to speculating about future ones):

On workbenches, it's common to nail the lids of a number jars to the underside of a board - then you have handy containers for nails and screws etc. 

Would it be possible to do similar in a kitchen - attach a number of jars to the underside of a (sturdily-built) cupboard? Then you could fill the jars with lentils, beans, rice, etc. Not only would it avoid spillage, I think it would end up quite pretty (with all the different colours)...kinda like the displays with jars of beads at bead stores. 

Is there some reason I'm missing that this couldn't work and thus isn't as standard in kitchens as it is on workbenches?