Forever ordering plastic storage bins [status, stuff]

[rebeccmeister]

On account of today's weather, which has been vacillating between freezing rain and snow, I decided to stay home. I'll do more of the zookeeping tomorrow instead.

Thursdays are the day when I mostly just lick my wounds and try to brace myself for the next round of teaching ordeals, anyway.

But before getting to that, I wanted to work away at the List of Things to Acquire. To wit, mostly placing orders for even more plastic storage bins:

-A greeting card organizer. I tried ordering one about a month ago off eBay, only to have the seller refund my money because they oversold. Ugh! Besides, nowadays eBay is mostly just a Jungle reseller. An annoying repeat of my recent online shoe-shopping experience. I eventually resigned myself to ordering things from the Jungle, because there are a handful of other bits and bobs that it appears can only be readily and accurately found through the Jungle site or equivalent these days (replacement mounting brackets for my bike odometer; the correct replacement hook & loop pads for my orbital sander; the specific face lotion I want; a sufficiently long boot tray for my bike in my office). I hate this, but as I've noted, I live in a depauperate area when it comes to shopping for many things. We did at least purchase lots of bike parts last weekend from our local bike shops, because we do want them to stay in business.

-Medium-sized bins for organizing woodworking/hardware tools and supplies. This is modeled after ranunculus's scheme of maintaining a set of grab-and-go bins for her various projects around the ranch. I'm getting really sick of dealing with piles of things on shelves, but also, the bins need to not be too giant and deep as to be unwieldy.

-File boxes. Ages ago I attempted to use coroplast file boxes. Total junk that fell apart. Then I got a set of cardboard file boxes. When I put actual files in them, the files caused the cardboard to collapse. So now I'm moving on to hard-sided plastic of the correct dimensions for files. Sigh.

The latter two came from The Container Store. The big-box stores in this area all sell various kinds of plastic storage containers, but those all tend to be flimsy and of the wrong dimensions, and I am so over that.

But now it's time to get back to work projects.

Comments

[scrottie]

More wooden boxes. We now own a router.

[rebeccmeister]

I better get signed up for one of those woodworking classes at the Arts Center!

And I do need to complete the current wooden box still.

:^)

[twoeleven]

FWIW, I have a plastic toolbox, which seems to work well for hauling tools around the house. Most importantly, it has a handle, and so can be carried one-handed.

[bluepapercup]

The plastic file boxes are incredibly superior to all other options. We got ours from Costco and they have rails on the inside for hanging files and a gasket on the underside of the lid to keep mold and mustiness out.