Cheap storage and organisation ideas?

[EmmanuelWoganberry]

Influenced by the wrapping paper thread,

Do you have any clever, cheap or original ways of storing stuff which either saves lots of space/money or is just plain beautiful?

Particularly interested in kitchen storage.

I currently keep dried goods and baking supplies in stacked labelled little tupperware boxes from Home Bargains - 69p for 5.

Cleaning supplies I keep grouped into coloured baskets from poundland, under the sink.

Share yours?

I buy lots of the white cardboard storage boxes,they hold a lot. I have about 8 in ds bedroom. I store his baby keepsakes in one,his books in another,train set etc.

Sadly I can't do beautiful:(

DCs' pens, pencils etc are kept in peanut butter jars - they look like jam jars but are plastic so safer. They have one pot for pencils, one for twistable crayons, another for felt tips, another for pritt etc, all in a line. I think they look quite 'clean' like that and DC can find everything really easily.

Pound shops are my first port of call, followed by ikea. We used to have those hanging shoe pocket things for scarves, belts etc, but I've seen them used as hallway storage for hats, suncream etc. You can cut the bottom row off if it's too long.

When DC were smaller we had pound shop plastic cereal containers out on the worktop so DC could choose and pour their own.

Ikea tupperware with green lids, £2.99 for about 20 different boxes of varying sizes, is great for subdividing toy storage. The tiniest boxes hold playmobil bits, the biggest ones star wars figures or lego sets, and everything inbetween marbles, coloured tiles, jigsaws, weebles - anything really. Use stacked on shelves or to separate small toys in a chest or kallax/expedit boxes.

It's not original but you can buy ikea spice racks for about £2 each and mount on the wall as display bookshelves, so toddlers can see the books front-on. Much cheaper than a tidybooks or canvas sling style bookcase. Also works as bedside book storage for older DC in bunks.

Mine's free storage for crafty adults - those large cardboard trays which originally held bananas, free from supermarkets. Mine are stacked in a corner of spare room, and hold painting papers, fabrics folded about 1m x.5m, cardboard folders with assorted notes, etc. etc.

That’s a great tip re the spice racks erin99 I’ve been looking at those canvas sling type bookshelves for DD but they are £40 ish, we have her books piled in a toybox at the moment. Will have to take a trip to ikea.

We rinse out jars and use for kitchen storage. Ie the passata tall jar now contains walnuts

Goodness How many walnuts do you have, art?

Erm, a few large bags from holland and Barrett. It's not that many walnuts! Only fits about 1/2 bag in at a time. Kids eat them with breakfast so do go through some :)

Not beautiful, but my bosses kept throwing out loads of cat food boxes. I took home four, taped them together and tied them underneath a sturdy shelf as extra storage. We filled that quickly so I bought another four home, taped them together and tied them underneath the existing four. Helps us keep pet stuff relatively organised!

I also use these:
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0060KBSZ0/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
for storing my t-shirts in. They go in folded in the standard fashion and then folded in half or thirds and stored on their sides so I can see which tees are which without taking them all out :)