Originally Posted by moonrise
I inherited all of my grandmother's (and through her, my great-grandmother's) sewing stuff. On top of the metal cabinets, I bought some of these storage containers from Walmart:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Sterilite-...of-14/13376573
They're large see-through shoebox-style containers with latching lids, for $2 each (sold in packs of 14).
Not free, but they're cheap and also very tough.
My Granny kept empty Tide boxes, decorated them with contact paper, and used them to hold her patterns. They fit in the boxes perfectly. :mrgreen: She also hung vinyl shoe storage thingies on the back of her sewing room doors (she had 2 sewing rooms), and put stuff like packaged bias tape in the little pockets. It worked great! :thumbup:
I have those shoebox-style containers you provided a link to and I LOVE THEM!!! At $2 each with free delivery to store...I think that's a good deal...but I could be wrong..haven't bought them lately.
You're describing lots of GRANDMAS and GREATGRANDMAS out there. They didn't have disposable income . . .like we HAD...so now we must be more like them.