How can you organise hundreds of children's hair bits - clips,scrunchies, alice bands etct

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My daughter is getting quite a collection of hair bits - clips, slides, scrunchies, alice bands. I had them in a few small boxes in the wardrobe so she could find bits but this is getting a bit out of hand now as there is so much stuff. Really this stuff needs to be kept so she can e.g. find red clips if she
wants to match to red dress etc ["you are getting a bit anal" emoticon]

Has anyone got a great system to keep this stuff tidy but also a way you can also see what you have as there is no point having stuff if you can't see/use it. Thanks

you could get something like this

I note, however, your words "is getting quite a collection,..." which suggest she is quite young? Just to elt you know that by the time she's 8 they'll all be adorning various dolls, clipped to leaves in teh garden and scattered in amongst general polly pocket/craft stuff debris.

I can't get the link to work - can you try it? Is it me?

I'll try again

bugger, search for clear craft box in the Argos search box!

mamag beat me but was going to suggest vraft box or small plastic containers (one for clips, another for bands )

I think I should buy one myself

Ahh you need a booble plate.

LOL the famous bobble plate!

My solution is to use drawing pins to fix ribbons to the back of dd's bedroom door (a bit like a washing line)
I then clip the clips to them, hook alice bands through and sort of tie the bobbles through by putting them behind the ribbon and pulling them through themselves (if that makes sense)
It actually looks nice and cost pennies
If that sounds too shabby chic for you(I know I'm kidding myself)I think the gltc used to do some sort of stick to keep them on.
Or a many compartmented clear plastic box meant for crafty bits that would probably be good too.
I've thought about this way too much

Some nice ideas. I particualrly like the craft box idea but it won't be big enough for Alice bands which are the current favourite.

i got a box from IKEA with all these wee boxes in it.

one for each girl.

i painted and varnished them.

I've got the IKEA box too - it's great! I have colour co-ordinated all my costume jewellery - purple bits in one section, green in another, red in a third..ad infinitum. OK not really, just until all the boxes have been used up.

You could use that for hair bobbles, the ribbon idea for hair clips, don't know about the alice bands though - a kitchen roll inside painted pink a la Blue Peter styley? Bet your image conscious dd would just love that.

ROFL at bobble plate thread - just read the entire thing!! The genius that is Mumsnet.

Can someone please link me to Ikea box - I can't seem to find it. Thank you

Ok here it is

this one

is this what expat painted and varnished even though it is plastic?

I expect she means one of the wooden ones that is a series of little drawers - the ones that at one point no home was without?

I don't know if they still do them - it'd work if you painted each drawer a different colour. Personally I prefer the 'see everything at a glance' option as otherwise stuff just gets shoved in the drawers and then you end up opening them all to find the one thing that you want.

I googled those boxes and they have been discontinued I'm afraid. Op could try ebay I suppose.

Damn it I came on here to say Booble Pate but you have beaten me to it!

bobble plate? Was the thread that funny? Will have to go and read it.

Yes a definite MN classic!

DD's clips are on a booble pate little dish.

Her bobbles etc are just shoved in a makeup bag I got free from no7

Alice bands hang round her money box (one of those jar shaped ones you smash when it's full)

My daughter has a sewing box for her 'precious things' which includes her hair bits and bobs. Alice and hair bands go in the bottom section, with bobbles and clips in the top tray. But if I had a storage problem I'd just wait 2 weeks and it would no longer be an issue. What do they do, eat the bloody things?