Unusual Ideas For Storage

MissG_2

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

When one of my hamsters died a would use it as a coffin to bury it in the garden after eating all the chocolates that is.

nearlyrich

I also have a cutlery drainer for my pens on my desk, I use a Terracotta storage jar on the ledge by the bath for sachets of stuff to keep them tidy and my packet mixes are in a tupperware too. I also bought a bathroom storage unit (glass and chrome) to house my mini hifi it was only £9.99 from Aldi (bargain):money:

Topher

:j I've just thought, you know those sock drawer dividers from Lakeland? I bet I could make them by cutting out a centre section from a 4pt or 6pt plastic milk carton (like a sqaurish tube of plastic) and stapling them together, or cutting slots in their sides two at the bottom edge of one carton tube, and two at the top edge of the next carton tube so they'll slot together making small sections for each pair of socks. I'm off to try it, I'll let you know......

T

mah_jong

Over they years I have used ice cream tubs and large stork/flora tubs for freezing portions of stuff.

I use large coffee jars to decant remnants of paint from tins and marked them eg 'my bedroom 2005',(should the colour be similar to another).

Shoe boxes for photos and surprisingly shoes! Not nessecarily the ones they came with the box! So address label and description on the outside.

I do have to admit that I tossed heaps of boxes/tugs/bags out last year...... I was becoming someone who could not throw anything out ....just in case! Mind you I was decluttering too so the contents of many of those boxes were tossed to!

janeawej

My favourite one was taught to me by an autistic child i work with, he told me that those wine carriers you get from supermarkets for 6 bottles (they are folded flat and you make them into shape) are great for storing shoes in!! each shoe has its own hole and each one stores 3 pairs! i used this for dd1 & 2's shoes tho realy big ones wont fit, its much better than having them all over the floor!! :j :j

Bogof_Babe

I save the coloured plastic lids off deodorant aerosols, and use them upside down in a pretty toffee tin on my dressing table, to stand lipsticks, concealer, tubes of moisturiser, eyebrow pencils etc. in. They store standing on their ends rather than in a big jumble, and I can find what I want at a glance.

In reply to an earlier question, I keep my laundry baskets on top of the fridge freezer.

Regarding shoe storage, I read once that if you keep them in the original box, take a photo of the shoes and stick it on the outside, then stack the boxes. Easy to find the pair you want without opening all the boxes.

Great thread this :beer: .

Quasar

I have an old but attractive, wooden spice rack which I no longer need, but instead of disposing of it I have hanged it on a wall in the bathroom and keep all sorts of bits and pieces in it: body lotions, toothbrush and paste etc. All out of the way and tidy.

Because I live in a small flat with no cupboards to speak of, whenever I find boxes of suitable sizes I take them and cover them with coloured paper and use them to store "overflow" things such as clothing etc. and stack them neatly in a corner, which keeps changing according to how I feel about it.

jo101_2

Hi

My Dad gives me his empty large glass sweetner jars (canderel I think) which make perfect storage for dried food goods, I have about 15 in the cupboard at the moment all in use. also recommisioned an old bedside shelf as shoe storage.

Also, not sriclty storage but my husband gets from work large plastic trays which come in champagne boxes which have loads of large dimples in them which have been perfect for the children to use cit down as pallets for painting. Empty 4 dip containers make great storage for collage bits for the kids to use for sticking.

Jo

FZwanab

My aunt uses 1l and 2l plastic milk bottles, to freeze hm stock in, that way she knows exactly how much stock she has in the freezer.

luckylukey

I have mounted an old towel rack above the bathroom door to store spare loo paper on,
Have old jam jars that I store table confetti in
Old jam jars in the garden, painted with glass pain as candle holders
A jar that a bottle of vodka came in is now the bird seed holder
If I have a party , i cut old coke cans in half for pretty ash trays