Originally Posted by lclang

I use a straight sided pint jar to hold large cones of thread behind my machine, large coffee cup for pens, pencils, point turners, etc, large plastic trays for all kinds of stuff near my machine, empty Swiffer boxes for small projects, large pizza boxes for finished blocks, large cardboard apple boxes for storage, metal candy/cookie boxes for buttons and small items,
large baskets from Christmas fruit and food gifts for storage, etc. Don't throw anything away until it is looked over for other uses.