Save Money. Reuse other product's packaging.

Welcome to Works for Me Wednesday, sponsored by Rocks In My Dryer.

Storage is something I need a lot of around here, but plastic buckets add up in cash. I also hate to throw away usable things, so instead of waste money on something that will break in a short time, I us containers from packaging I already bought for something else. Here are a few items I've used, some which have lasted me longer than those $15-$20 plastic bins:

1. Empty Bandaid boxes: Top lid flap folded up to align with back and secured with tape. Placed on back. One holds Bandaids stacked on sides from left to right. The other holds ointment tubes. Both fit in my rectangle Tupperware container I used for a first aid kid way back in Girl Scouts when earning my first aid badge.

2. Cell phone boxes: Top lid flap removed, tipped onto the narrow long side, stacked. Serves as envelope holders.

3. Small narrow cardboard box with flaps removed, laid on back. Houses tape dispenser, small Rolodex card file holder, and stapler. Keeps them together under my monitor shelf and prevents them from falling off the back of my computer desk. (Love this one!)

4. Small cardboard box, flaps taped out to align with box and one wide side removed. Sits on one of my computer desk shelves to give me more shelf space. Underneath I have narrow magazines, and on top a plastic office supply organizer.

5. Small-large cardboard boxes. These make great toy boxes and toys. Small to medium sized ones fit under beds.

6. Large coffee cans/containers, plastic nut containers with twist-on lids. These are perfect for small toys like Legos, Polly Pockets, rocks, etc. In our house, they also double as instruments.

Oh the things you can do with packaging from other products. And the money you can save! Next time you go to throw away that box or container, ask yourself what you could use it for.

Works for me. It will work for you.

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