Storage: is this product worth the money?

[Jellyfish]

Good morning! Drowning in toys here and need a storage solution for my sitting room. Am contemplating buying one of those storage systems that have three or four shelves with plastic bins tilted at an angle (sorry, tried to cut & post example but failed!!). They're designed so that children can have easy access to their toys. They're quite expensive though, so just wondered if anyone has one and if they actually work. Are they worth the money? Thanks very much for any advice!!

it depends on how anal you are imo. personally i dont like it, and if you want, you are welcome to come and take mine. i have the gltc one.
because they are tilted, the kids can see everything, and the toys are never kept osrted in their own trays. it all just ends up being one big jumble. we also have the ikea one where the trays are flat and the kids cant see into it, so the jumble isnt on display. but the problem with that is that toys dissapear in there and are never seen again, coz they 'cant find them'
so my solution is to give all their toys to charity. they have hardly anything left now.

I've got one of these It's fab.

I have one of those too HM, the only thing downstairs with toys in....

at your solution Stitch! Things so out of control here that I could quite happily bull-dozer the whole house, toys included. Will definitely have to have a serious cull. Thanks for advice about product though, am quite anal actually, so perhaps not best storage idea for me.

Thanks also HM and SparklyGK. Live abroad and so don't have access to Argos and haven't seen anything similar here but will start looking.

Does anyone else have any opinions/recommendations please about the angle shelf thing or any other system? Need to store everything from books, puzzles, footballs, toy cars to 'medical sets', tea sets and dressing-up clothes etc etc

Mistake I made with DD1 was buying those cheap big plastic supermarket boxes (the ones you usually get in multipacks called stack&store or stuff like that - they are too big and you end up with a jumble of stuff that gets ignored. Try to divide and conquer - use slightly smaller boxes. B&Q had some brilliant ones but I bought some then they were discontinued! They were clear-ish (white opaque) with lids that latched on. You could see what was in there (we put pictures on the front cut out from catalogues and stuck on with sticky-back plastic eg train track, barbie, paints. They were small enough that they could be easily moved around so you could stack them in the wardrobe and pull out when you wanted (those big ones get too heavy)

Stitch - whereabouts are you?

surrey

I went for the cheap (ie free) and cheerful solution - green stacking crates courtesy of the nice Tesco man

They stack when full, sit inside each other when (rarely) empty, fit underneath the bunk beds.

We have 3 side by side under the bunks and 3 more stacked downstairs.

jellyfish i have them and quite happy with them, i dont care that the toys get mixed up, you just sort them out every now and again, at least they are off the floor, and not lying in some round cclinder tub , thats worse to tidy up if it gets tossed around,. plus my kids will tidy the stuff back into them.
dd is beginning to use them to take samll items, barbie ete, to someones house.

if i hadnt have got them i dont know what would have done the job?

I've got this

I did look at the tilty box jobbies and they looked too much like temptation to pull everything out and then not play with anything

I made picture labels for the front of our Ikea thing - shop, puppets, instruments, baby dolls etc - so the dds can start to learn where stuff goes

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Stitch - How much would you want for your tidy shelf thing? (assuming I can persuade DH that we need it!) - I'm going to Guildford on Thursday so will be in Surrey area

I've got the tilted boxes on shelf thing, got it from costco for £25. Dead pleased as seen them for twice that.

Quite pleased with it, but its better for storing smallish things, things that are a bit bigger so pop over the top of the box make it difficult to store.

I've also got two wooden flat drawer storage systems, and to be honest found them a bit better, they hold more and looks tider. Brought them in a sale. Link was on mumsnet -

I also use wicker baskets. Oh lord she has so many things

housemum, email me at saadusatti at yahoo dot com

we've got the Ikea ones too - I'm kind of hoping that they will last a bit longer than the tilty ones as I think they might become a little bit babyish as the DSs get bigger?

Thanks everyone for taking time and trouble to post! Point taken Housemum - thxs - sounds like a very good solution to me. Would like to go for the Ikea Trofast (thanks Cappucino) thing (for bigger items) but won't be able to afford slanty shelf thing as well! (Ordering from French website and it costs much more than in UK and it's already quite expensive!) That is a bargain and a half Madrose!

Can totally sympathise Esbee!! Have just got back from holiday in UK where DD received a load of new toys for her birthday from various relations and together with unpacked suitcases, laundry piles + general junk and ephemera left over from a family holiday could just sit down and weep!! It was bad before we went away but now it's really, REALLY bad

Oh and good point Tommy. Hadn't thought of that!