OS People. Are you obsessed with containers like me?

£Ronnie

Do you have any children??

Get them to paint them, and fill them with various stuff, eg dry pasta in one, lentils in another, rice krispies etc etc. Sellotape lids on tight and there you have it, numerous musical intsruments, rattles drums etc. Cost = next to nothing, time children entertained= ages, and it wont cost you a thought to throw them away once they start getting under your feet...:D

moggins

Is there anyway of storing these containers so the lids don't get lost though. I have piles of lids and stacks of containers but not one lid seems to marry up to a container, it's very annoying and I think I am going to have to have a chuck out session and start again

cha97michelle

i love the plastic chinese takeaway tubs - i find they are great when i take my kittens to my mums house, as i can put food, or drink in them, without taking heavy breakable bowls.

They are also great for bits of lego.

I also send stuff into school - art department loves 2 pint milk bottles, as they make them into masks using papier mache. (Put the bottle upside down, the handle is the nose)
and the science department love things like bubble wrap, tin foil as they can use it in experiments.

Ronankfan

I use the plastic chinese takeaway containers all the time to put stuff in the freezer. I also use margarine tubs and i use milk bottles to store soup in the freezer.

Pooky

moggins wrote:

Is there anyway of storing these containers so the lids don't get lost though. I have piles of lids and stacks of containers but not one lid seems to marry up to a container, it's very annoying and I think I am going to have to have a chuck out session and start again

Shove them all in a pillow case and hang in a suitable cupboard....mine are al hanging in the larder...make sure you put the lids on them or you'll be fishing around for hours looking for the right lid.

Philippa36

Pooky wrote:

Shove them all in a pillow case and hang in a suitable cupboard....mine are al hanging in the larder...make sure you put the lids on them or you'll be fishing around for hours looking for the right lid.

Thats a brilliant idea! Everytime I open the cupboard I store my containers in, they all fall out - I will sort out an old pillow case tonight.

I always get extra paper bags to store mushrooms in, whenever I am in Asda or Sainsbury's.

halloweenqueen_2

Been to lidls and took time to look at the little boxes those sweeties burgers came in!! Still can't think what they could be used for! Transporting single pickled onions maybe?
The only thin I could think of really was if you go one picnic they would make throwaway sauce containers for single portions (if they stay shut) but that means you must bin them!!!!

Ticklemouse

Have to say I'm not a huge ice cream fan , but when they were on bogof in Tescos before Xmas, I got a few.

Here's the ultimate in saving containers and reusing them.....

My dad always saved containers, esp his Kenco coffee jars. He was a keen gardener and DIY person, so the shed and greenhouse were full of them. When he died, he wanted his ashes sprinkled on his garden. Mum wanted some of them buried in the churchyard, so the undertaker split the ashes. The ashes for sprinkling came to mum's house .... in a kenco coffee jar!! Yes, really When the undertaker had said mum didn't want to buy 2 urns , but my dad deserved more than a paper bag, he said he had a coffee jar and I immediately said yes, Dad would find that so funny and appropriate. So, amongst his jars in the shed, is one with his name types on a label, where it was put after we sprinkled his ashes.

Beat that!!

Curry_Queen

Ticklemouse wrote:

Have to say I'm not a huge ice cream fan , but when they were on bogof in Tescos before Xmas, I got a few.

They're currently half price (£1.27) in Tesco again, which is why I've got a tub of triple choc in my freezer ... well, half a tub now! :whistle:

Here's the ultimate in saving containers and reusing them.....

My dad always saved containers, esp his Kenco coffee jars. He was a keen gardener and DIY person, so the shed and greenhouse were full of them. When he died, he wanted his ashes sprinkled on his garden. Mum wanted some of them buried in the churchyard, so the undertaker split the ashes. The ashes for sprinkling came to mum's house .... in a kenco coffee jar!! Yes, really When the undertaker had said mum didn't want to buy 2 urns , but my dad deserved more than a paper bag, he said he had a coffee jar and I immediately said yes, Dad would find that so funny and appropriate. So, amongst his jars in the shed, is one with his name types on a label, where it was put after we sprinkled his ashes.

Beat that!!

:rotfl: That's an excellent anecdote, and very apt for him too! :A

nabowla

I've just 'rescued' two large sweet tins that one of the guys at work was going to chuck out. The smaller of the two tins contained 2.2kg of choccies so you can imagine the size I'm talking about. Goodness only knows what I'm going to do with them as I only have a tiny kitchen, but I couldn't bear to see them go in the bin.