Unusual Ideas For Storage

wishingonastar_3

wow, loads of ideas there, i love the cd box one for shoes, shoe boxes for the job are sooo expensive. made me inspired to see what else i can use for other things. lol.

kittykat500

Someone posted a thread on using emptied 4 pint plastic milk bottles cut in half and used as drawer dividers - thought I'd do this.

Currently encouraging lots of milk drinking to stock up on the bottles! Ain't life sad!!

xxxdarlingxxx

I use Ferrer Rocher chocolate trays to store my jewellery. Each wee gold cup holds a pair of earrings, a ring or a necklace. They trays stack up in a drawer too, all nice and tidy.

loving the chocs too

skintchick

I use the TEsco wine carrier for my glass recycling.

Old coffee jars for rice, pasta, cous cous, etc.

My plastic bags are in an old tea-towel I sewed into a tube, with string at the top and bottom to pull it tight, hung in my kitchen.

chardonnay_2

loving this thread! keep the ideas coming

Jolaaled

An old log-basket by the back door so the kids can dump they're shoes straight in, when they enter the house.

busymumof3

xxxdarlingxxx wrote:

I use Ferrer Rocher chocolate trays to store my jewellery. Each wee gold cup holds a pair of earrings, a ring or a necklace. They trays stack up in a drawer too, all nice and tidy.

loving the chocs too

How funny, I have just polished off the last choc and was lookingt at the small oblong box and thinking there must be a use for it! I'm thinking small items in the fridge or the stock cube idea sounds good.

frugglewump

OH was given a bathroom gift set in a pink pig woodern thing - think really wide letter rack. Since it was a pig it has been converted to a hot chocolate sachet holder. Have to find a new use for it now since i make hot chocolate straight from cocoa tin - mayeb a recipe/bill/ important paperwork holder.

Other bathroom gift set to OH (think someone is trying to tell him something?) was an a4 woodern box that is now a PS2 games crate

You used to be able to get yoghurts from waitrose in small glass jars (they were yummy billberry flavour) - have several of these dotted around with candles & 1 as drawing-pin holder.

Last one:
DIY wall-mounted fruit/veg racks. Made from a wire basket I found dumped in the park, sawn in half, cleaned and attached to a piece of wood & then to the wall.

broomstick27

i use a thing designed for cutlery drying as a pen pot, and cutlery trays as pen drawer tidies - we have a lot of pens!

flourgirl

we use old dishwasher cutlery baskets for storing paint brushes and on my desk at the moment are 2 terracotta pots that had posh yogurts in full of pens and pencils