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Storing blinking storage containers........ Any ideas?

(52 Posts)
Elegran Sun 08-Nov-15 16:25:35

One of my kitchen base cupboards has roll-out drawers. In the bottom one I have baking trays and tins, in the top one all my plastic storage containers. It helps that most of them are Lakeland's cheapest so they nest inside each other. They are stacked in piles of the same size, and all the lids are on their sides in a container beside them as in a filing drawer. At the back are all those awkward sizes that get in the way. When I need a container I roll out the drawer and choose the right one and its lid. If it is one of the back ones I can get it without disturbing the rest.

The other problem is labelling them for the freezer. I write directly on them with a chinagraph pencil, which stays on when frozen and thawed out. To get it off takes a wipe with white spirit, so many of them have the previous contents crossed out and the new ones written in as well, until there are enough to warrant getting out the white spirit and the kitchen towels.

loopylou Sun 08-Nov-15 16:07:54

I've cleared out the cupboard used for storing containers, matched up lids with bottoms, chucked out miscellaneous misfits and now don't know how to store them without ending up trying to match them up again.

How do you store yours? Ideally they'd all be neatly stacked but that'll take up too much room.

Thank you smile