I use the plastic salad containers to store pkgs of bias tape, zippers, velcro, webbing, cording, plastic snack bags with like colored buttons, glue pkgs., beads in snack pkgs., serger thread cones, patterns, fat quarters, sewing projects and scraps, etc. These containers stack on top of each other and also fit side by side in dresser drawers that have been repurposed from when the children were young.