OS People. Are you obsessed with containers like me?

larmy16 · 17 January 2006 at 11:14PM

A lot of food you buy these days seems to come in really solid containers. For example recently Morrisons value ice cream is in a really nice solid plastic container which would be great for storage.

My BICARB tubs become holders for tinned tomatoes that are leftover and frozen.

I used to buy frozen raspberries that came in nice see through strong plassy containers. They now hold all manner of odds and ends, like bits of string, sellotape, small lightbulbs. I have an old bookcase which I stack them up in.
It sure looks make do and mend I must say, but I really have a problem throwing these things even into recycling.

Anyone else like this and also what do you use "free" containers for??

Pooky · 17 January 2006 at 11:25PM

I've just saved the zip up bags that my grapes came in --- they look to handy to throw away.....ideas on a postcard please!

I'll save any boxes or plastic containers that look handy ...then I need to save bigger ones to keep the smaller ones in.

Asda and morrisons did some sort of fairy cakes (individually packed) at one stage in a really nice square tub -- my dad went mad on them and my mum gave me all the boxes.....great size for freezing soup or stew...got loads used for craft bits too. I think they were 99p for 10 cakes and the box - worth it just to feed the cakes to the birds!

Ticklemouse · 17 January 2006 at 11:31PM

I find Carte Dor ice cream tubs multiply in my cupboards

They are great for putting leftovers in the fridge, becuase they are strong, have lids which fit well and are see through.

Swan_2 · 17 January 2006 at 11:56PM

I have to make a real effort to discipline myself to only keep the good ones, otherwise my house would be full of useless empty containers waiting forever to be filled ... I currently have a pile of tiny transparent 'clam-shell' containers that I can't part with, they had little LIDL burger sweets in them. I was at a party & went around collecting them after they'd been discarded ... obsessive??? me??? :rolleyes:

Curry_Queen · 18 January 2006 at 12:00AM

Hmmmm ... me collect jars and containers of any description?? ... nahhhhhh

:whistle:

Skintmama · 18 January 2006 at 12:21AM

Ho Hum Some drawers and cupboards are a little difficult to shut around here for useful bits of plastic! Then of course there is always the greenhouse and er the garage!

I threw a zip top grape bag in the bin yesterday with some reluctance-just couldn't think of a use for it. There was something strangely appealing about that little zipper! Sad or what?

Most are for the freezer and fridge plus storage of dry goods in the store cupboard. Other uses are for beads, buttons and threads. Hubby uses them for nails, screws, bolts etc in the garage. Also I pour paint into them for painting around the fiddly bits of a room. In the greenhouse they are mainly used as seed trays and driptrays for pots. Tend to use them also to put compost bits in from food prep before emptying into the container by the back door.

voodoozoe · 18 January 2006 at 12:22AM

I also LOVED to keep the Carte D'Or style ice cream tubs to freeze Spag Bol etc. but I am scuppered by my newly acquired OS refusal to buy expensive ice cream!!!! Poo!!!

across · 18 January 2006 at 12:30AM

i save all good boxes and containers and give them to my daughter to take to nursery for modelling they are always in need when making things!!!!!!!!! she loves giving them in and our bin is now fortnightly so that helps a little too that problem!!!!!!!!!!

Mr_Proctalgia · 18 January 2006 at 12:33AM

I keep my Corn Flour in a Cocoa Tin that is marked Curry!
I keep suitable jars cos I do picked onions and stuff (I wish you could get the old type sweet jars again)

Swan_2 · 18 January 2006 at 12:41AM

Mr_Proctalgia wrote:

I keep suitable jars cos I do picked onions and stuff (I wish you could get the old type sweet jars again)

it's worth a look in Poundland if you're near one, I saw similar jars there a couple of weeks ago. their stock's pretty sporadic, so you may have to keep looking every time you're passing

I used to get mine from a small sweetshop, the owner was glad to get rid of them. might be worth asking if you've one nearby

Mr_Proctalgia · 18 January 2006 at 12:46AM

Swan I'm amazed, I was born in a corner shop, used to weigh out the butter, sugar in blue bags etc, the sweet jars had a deposit on them in those days.

We don't know we have lived do we?

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