I need Good Storage! For not too much money.

[PavlovtheCat]

Plastic boxes that will last in the loft, or not look too awful stacked in a corner of a bedroom or on a shelf.

And that doesn't cost £15 per box! 30-50l boxes needed ideally, although some slender ones for under the bed is ok too, for toys etc.

I am going to need around 6 boxes.

Pav if you can manage with 64 litre ones, Staples do two really useful boxes in that size for £20.

They are massive and very strong.

Normally £17 each

Aldi have some on special offer this week. www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/sunday-5th-january/

Prices seem to vary for no reason. Sometimes wilkinsons are cheap, sometimes tesco have an offer. Get the ones with one-piece lifs, not the hinged ones, they break and leak.

If there are clothes, put a moth-killer with Transfluthrin in each box.

We got somegreat foldable stacking plastic crates last week from tesco. £3 each on offer.

rooners Oh do they? I just bought a Really Useful 50l for £13. Stung there! I will go into Staples and get them. 64l will be ideal as the 50l is full of DCs 'artwork' already and we have more to put in...

piglet oh good idea about the mothball stuff, thank you would never have thought of it. And yes, some clothes are going away, and some material for that day when I get around to making a quilt from our wedding material. You know that day the moon is blue?

oh I do love Aldi! and Lidl! they have some great offers sometimes don't they?! The larger ones will be great for the art stuff, not the already created masterpieces which are in the Really Useful Box, the unassembled creations of glitter and stars (that DH tipped all over the floor this morning i didn't laugh ). I do need the clipped shut ones too, for in the loft, as there will be books and paperwork type stuff going in them, but a mixture of the two, and then some underbed storage for the children's toys. Lovely!

Can you tell I am decluttering and organising? Slowly so as not to end up back in bed unable to move but, organising nevertheless. I have thrown out two bin bags of rubbish today, just stuff that I never get around to throwing away in case I need them, paperwork, old tatty clothes, boxes for old equipment that have probably lasted longer than what was inside them, birthday cards that I have not been ruthless about.

I also have a charity shop box for things to be put in, and a 'pre school' bag for clothes and toys to send to DSs pre school'.

Organised eh?

You are doing so well by the sound of it.

The trouble is with the RU boxes that once you've got two, you have to go back and get another two, and so on, because somehow everything goes so much better in them than in the horrible old cardboard ones you were using before...it becomes a storage vicious circle.

We're moving and I'm trying to resist packing everything in RUBs instead of disposable boxes. It is hard. Everything is also in little Wham boxes with coloured lids (also staples) and I am loving it. I just dread the day I have to unpack into a real house again. I want to live in little boxes.

Rooners

I find cardboard trays from supermarkets are really useful, easier to find things than plastic boxes, and the dark green ones (for fruit?) are good and strong. Four layered on a wooden tea-trolley then covered with decent cloth store lots of craft items in corner of spare room.