Storing clothes and toys

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We've just moved to a new and bigger house (great!) with no loft (conversion) :(. I have a lot of clothes from ds which I'm saving for the dts as well as old toys of ds. All are currently in black bags and I'm looking for neat ways to store them preferably on shelves. I've had a look at vacuum bags but they seem to have mixed reviews on here. Any other ideas?

We just bought a couple of trofast units from ikea <a class="break-all" href="//ikeawww.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/categories/series/19027/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ikeawww.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/categories/series/19027/ to store DDs toys, which has been a godsend as it's allowed us to separate their toys out so they can actually find what they want rather than emptying a whole great big box over the floor so they can find a tiny thing at the bottom...

This is for old toys and clothes which I have some shelf space for

Hi tigger!
does your new place have a garden with a shed or room for a shed? If so I would get as much shelving as I could into that and then pack clothes / toys sorted by age season into plastic bins that fit onto shelves. Doesn't have to be pretty but as air/watertight as you can find. Would get a bulk bag of those silica gel sachets off eBay and put lots of them in amongst the clothes too.
If no room outside but space inside would do the same but with cupboard/wardrobe with lots of dhelv

Gah! Shelving installed.

We have Pack-a-Mate vacuum bags from Lakeland - they have been sealed shut for about a year now with no sign of seepage... but they are a faff to close properly, and we had about 4 attempts before they worked (we are storing DS's baby clothes so suck each age range and then put them up in the loft in batches, so they have been stacked in a wardrobe first so we could see them reinflating).

Think it's always going to be an occasional hazard judging by the reviews!