Comments on: Stop Buying Storage Containers: Strange Ways to Save Money

By: Diana

Diana — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:30:26 +0000

I have used cereal boxes to store magazines. Just cut them up like the ones you buy. You can cover them if you want to match your decor.

By: Wayward

Wayward — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:18:04 +0000

Great ideas! Regarding the holiday themed storage containers, if you don’t want to use Halloween (or other holiday-themed items) year round, try painting the container. I’ve done this a couple of times using leftover paint from our walls and now I don’t cringe in January every time I look at my 4th or July bargain baskets!

By: Joan

Joan — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:47:30 +0000

Our apartment had little storage space. Our extra bedding was placed in a banana box covered with “contact paper” (plastic). After we’d been in our roomier house a couple years, I was ready to throw away the banana box, but a neighbor asked for it. When she died her relatives inherited the house. Last summer I was in their house and was amused to see that banana box is still around, still being used for storage of soft goods. That cardboard box is 19 years old and still on the job.

By: TD

TD — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:40:15 +0000

I get plenty of use out of Rubbermaid, Pyrex, and Corningware containers I own.
Issue I find sometimes is that companies not longer make the containers I like when I’m in search of replacement. Rubbermaid used to make some awesome 2.2cup containers, back in 2005-2006.

By: PrincessPerky

PrincessPerky — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:40:03 +0000

I have been begging everyone I know for printer paper cases.

they are all relatively uniform in size and just about perfect fit for the top of the kids closets. One or two boxes hold each size of hand me downs, easy to find the stuff, and looks half decent.
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I find a mishmash of different sized boxes looks bad no matter how organized the insides might be.

When I do use different sized boxes, I like to get contact paper to cover them all in a coordinating color. costs about as much as one or two boxes to cover a whole shelf.