Originally Posted by the casual quilter

I know this sounds crazy, but I use my husband's empty prescription bottles. I punch a hole in the lid and drop the spool into the bottle. I feed the strand of thread through the hole and snap on the lid. I use a bit of scotch tape on the end of the thread to keep it from slipping down into the hole when I'm not using it. I put all of the bottles I'm using in a basket to keep them corraled.