Prescription medicine containers, quaker oat round boxes, plastic peanut butter jars. I agree with Jim, Altoid tins are great.
Prescription medicine containers, quaker oat round boxes, plastic peanut butter jars. I agree with Jim, Altoid tins are great.
Another of my forgotten storage helpers for in the shop:
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This makes it easier to pick through a box of screws or other small items. It also makes it easy to get them back where they were.
jtk
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
We’ve all gotten to used to hoarding junk. I’m one too.
The metal recycling container calls.
Young enough to remember doing it;
Old enough to wish I could do it again.
I miss 35mm film cans. I do have a 35mm film can for shipping a movie. It looks like a 5 gallon bucket but a little shorter. I thin kit held 3 reels. perfect height to stand on to do ceiling work. I have a couple 2 inch magnetic tape shipping containers. keep holiday lights coiled up in them.
Bil lD
My grandpa collected the jars the favorite jelly of his wife came in. He had the lids screwed to the bottom of a shelf, roughly 1x8 pine. When he was looking for a specific thing he would just twist the jar to release if from the lid screwed to the underside of the shelf, and then put it back when he was done.
Some hazard from the glass jars, but he could see the contents without untwisting the jar. He probably had 50 of them hanging from the bottom of that shelf. 1" screws, 1.25" screws, etc.
My biggest storage problem in the shop is where to store all the containers I saved to store stuff in, seems like I have more storage containers than stuff. Course if I toss all the containers..........
Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.
I wonder what car paint shops and nail salons do with all the little empty cans of paint. Do nail salons have paint mixing machine like paint stores do?
Bill D
I stink at sizing screws and bolts. When I work on my car or tractor, I take the entire wrench or socket set with me. Along those lines, I realized years ago I needed a way to organize all the screws, nuts, washers, etc. I looked and looked at organizers and storage containers. WOW! Are they expensive. To determine the number I would need, I went to Lowe's and Home Depot, and recorded every size and type of screw they had hanging. I count over 350 different screws, bolts, washers, nuts, etc. that I would be likely to have in my shop. My solution:
Homemade trays, 1 1/2" thick with solid hardboard bottom and holes in the top hardboard for holding...wait for it...prescription bottles. They come in about 5 different sizes and most pharmacies use the same find (Walgreens, Walmart, and Rite Aid do anyway). They will not give or sell you any empty bottles. But depending on how often you need to frequent the pharmacy the can stack up quickly. I started making the trays when I realized I had two 10-ream paper bozes full.
I salvage many containers and the Altoid tins are never tossed.
One thing I do with the Altoid cans is put change and a few bills in one for the glovebox/center compartment of each car. That way if something comes up when out and about and the wallet is short there is always a little cash on hand. You know in case of the need for an emergency donut. Or less fun, a parking meter. Or for exact change at a drive thru.
JKJ
Good idea, we just have it loose in the ashtrays.One thing I do with the Altoid cans is put change and a few bills in one for the glovebox/center compartment of each car.
jtk
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Baby food jars used here.