Unusual Ideas For Storage

kscour

our local instore had some a couple of weeks back - didn't check them for shoe size though:D

realised the other day my peg bag is actually a lego box (the one with a handle and a lid that looks like the top of a brick)

newlywed

Austin_Allegro wrote:

I have a divan bed - basically a hollow crate with fabric all round, so a total waste of storage space - so I used a stanley knife to cut away the (non-structural) fabric on the side. This opened up the entire underbed area for storage. The valence covers up the hole.

I did the same when I lived with my parents. Regretted buying a bed with no storage space - even though the idea at the time was to make me keep less stuff!!

Dobie

One Christmas we were bought a posh bottle of port in a wooden box with a rope handle. It now sits on the windowsill in the bathroom with painkillers, plasters etc in it.
Also in the bathroom is a lovely basket that had a bottle of red wine & some cheese in it (also a Christmas gift) & it now sits on the edge of the bath full of shampoo, shower gel & stuff.
In the cupboard under the sink I have 2 drawers that I rescued from an old freezer filled with cleaning products & a large plastic tub that was full of wild bird treats full of my mixture of half own brand washing powder with half washing soda.

wishingonastar_3

kscour wrote:

our local instore had some a couple of weeks back - didn't check them for shoe size though:D

realised the other day my peg bag is actually a lego box (the one with a handle and a lid that looks like the top of a brick)

tried the ones in instore, they are about an inch too short, lol. i've got an empty lego box too, at the moment its in the bottom of my wardrobe with birthday cards in it, lol.

Alikay

I keep my ST's and Lilletts in an old Ferrero Rocher box! Much prefer the original contents!
I still have ancient baby formula tins for pens & pencils, too.
My daughters ipod sock is literally a sock - an old well-worn one!

kscour

wishingonastar wrote:

tried the ones in instore, they are about an inch too short

I'd suggest using old shoe boxes covered in a nice paper but if you're anything like me your old shoe boxes are already full to the brim with other things:D

GardenMillie

I was given a photo album (smaller than A5) and used it to store my recipes that I've cut out of magazines or written down from friends, I have four sections, starters, one pots (my favourite), mains and baking/sweets.

I used to keep them in a load of recipe books and it was always the last one I looked in.

Also keep my jars of spice in a large plastic tupperware tub, it's much easier to take the tub out and look through it at worktop level.:D

beachbeth

JackieO wrote:

The food was appalling and he used to bring me sandwiches and biscuits in for my supper.

No change there then!

The only thing I can think of is that I re-use biscuit/roses/celebration tins for the dogs' biscuits and I also have some for when I make cakes. I also have a tall tin that I got for storing Cadbury Flakes in. Its yellow with the flake logo on it. As I don't eat that much chocolate I use it to store my decaff tea bags in. The tea bags come in useless boxes so the air tight tin does the trick.

MrB_2

PONDSAVER wrote:

I store my spaghetti in an old whisky round tube that the bottle came in just the right size for my spaghetti ( is that the right spelling!!??)

SNAP, an idea I thought was original

Bambam

I use an old toothbrush holder to store my make up brushes in.

What do you do with your ironing basket when its empty? Mine took up so much room that I decided to buy one of those collapsible plastic crates you can buy in Wilko. Now when the ironings all done it folds neatly away in a cupboard. Also useful for carrying dirty washing to the machine!