moineau
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Post by moineau on May 29, 2008 14:00:57 GMT -5
This is a tip so I hope this is where I post it.  When my yarn stash was SERIOUSLY overflowing...bags of it taking up about 1/4 of a room I looked enviously at the lovely shelving in the wool shop, and wished I could have some like that for my yarn...then it hit me one day " I can make storage like that" I am thinking this might work for other things as well if they were not too heavy. Take uniformly sized cardboard boxes and stack them so they are in a tower with each one's open side facing you. Then take parcel tape ( TONS of it ) and tape them all together. Voila one tall storage unit and you have reduced the footprint the stuff took up on the floor. Of course don't put heavy stuff inside, you don't wont to knock yourself out if it did tumble over, but for wool/yarn it is ideal...and you can pretty much see what you have without having to tip a box of stuff all over the floor. If you have spare paint you can always paint the outside too so it looks nice. HTH someone Moineau |
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Post by metamorpha on May 29, 2008 14:59:18 GMT -5
That is a pretty good tip, Moineau. I am halfway tempted to try it with some of my dd's soft toys.
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Post by reesa on May 29, 2008 22:44:39 GMT -5
I use milk crates for my painting stuff. They're cheap at the thrift store and I can spray paint them whatever color I want. Just tie em toegther so they're stable
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Post by fluffernut - now Jannie on May 30, 2008 10:08:31 GMT -5
Great ideas! I'm gonna check the 99 cent store for some rectangular containers I can tie together.
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Post by puppybox on May 30, 2008 12:52:01 GMT -5
I have a lot of boxes piled high... Maybe I can convert them to boxes with open fronts and actualyl have access without a work out!
great great idea.
I thought of using milk crates, but I went to go buy them at the giant stationary warehouse type store and they cost like $7.99 plus tax! I am poor and its actually cheaper to buy ikea shelves!!!!
I thought of stealing crates lying around in alleys outside of stores but I'm not that poor/dishonest/gutsy yet.
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Post by syzygy on May 30, 2008 22:20:31 GMT -5
My first "purchase" in my first apartment was a wall of bookcases made of milk crates and boards. As long as I kept the heavy stuff on the bottom, it worked great.
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Post by crazycatlady on May 31, 2008 11:42:11 GMT -5
I have seen people use cinderblocks and boards for shelving, too. Unfortunately, my house is in rather poor repair, and often pretty messy, so those ideas that look "charming" or "shabby chic" in a nice home, often just look shabby here!
We did get some nice shelving units at Ikea that were pretty inexpensive, and they have such a variety of sizes! That has helped me a LOT!
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Post by margaret56 on May 31, 2008 14:41:30 GMT -5
These are all great ideas....but unfortunately they wouldn't "work" for me, not in the long run. I must have tried every "organizing" system, gadget, container, shelving system in the universe before I finally just realized that the only solution to keeping "organized" was to have less to organize. A LOT less.
I can't tell you how many empty storage containers and the like I finally tossed at the end of my desqualoring that had become part of the squalor themselves because things got taken out of them and not put back until they slowly disappeared under the "glacier" of clutter. These days, when I find myself looking for extra storage I realize it is probably time for another decluttering instead. I am just not someone who "organizing" helps....
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Post by reesa on Jun 5, 2008 23:05:42 GMT -5
same here maraget, I have a lot of crates full of useless things that I am hoarding
I do actually steal them from the alleyway between work and home...
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Post by CourageouslyLion SeeksSerenity on Jun 16, 2008 8:14:42 GMT -5
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Post by stressedbythemess on Jun 16, 2008 8:48:23 GMT -5
I was about to reply with the links I had found to cardboard furniture making!  But I am talking myself out of another project. Walmart and similar also sell these wire things- that you put together that form cube shelves with plastic pieces holding the corner of the square wire frames together. They're relatively cheap for shelving and you can of course- configure with some amount of flexibility. |
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