Clever storage ideas for the home

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Thank you Lori. I haven't got the money to spend on storage, so I look at everything in a different way before I trash or recycle it. Though I do wish for some plastic tubs!

That's a great idea Sterla!

Another thing I do is cut up 3Lt milk bottles along the line just below the handle. I have two full of my wooden clothes pegs (when I take the clothes off the line, all the pegs go in the one way. A bit OTT, but that's how I like them). These were also handy in the drawers for baby socks and that sort of stuff, as you can cut them to any height you want (I'm going to put all my lippy's in them cut shorter). My Mum also uses them to freeze stocks, soups etc in. The Man uses them for nuts and bolts etc when working on cars. You could punch or cut little holes in them to make little handles or do something funky to them if you wanted.

And all our medicines/vitamins are kept in a tupperware tub in the top cupboard. Everything is kept together out of reach, and I don't have to find space for this big square container that I never use but don't want to get rid of!

I have thought of a label maker, but I haven't labelled these container on purpose. 1. No one else cares where things are. 2. The only other person that cares, knows where things are, and can't read yet. 3. I don't want to stick a label on my old tins.

That's all I can think of for now. No, not quite, I wish I had kept some formula tins to create a shelf a'la Shannon Lush's pineapple juice tin bookshelf for all our shoes outside the front door!

ETA, I store my black-out candles in an egg carton with a lighter (up out of reach). During a blackout, if you take the candles out of the box and turn the carton upside down on the table, the divots in between the egg 'cups' hold a candle brilliantly and catch all the dripping wax. Can hold up to five candles, more than enough to light up a room while waiting for the power to come back on! Get your kids to decorate the boxes so they actually look pretty (prettier than a plain egg box!) since they might be permanently in view (mine is).