B&M bargains - cheap storage

[NARSES2]

I got this years ago but it shows what can be got from your local "pet food to kitchenware" shop, mine is in the old Woolworths store so basicaly took over from it. I stick my head in every couple of weeks just to check.

My "handy reach" storage on my bench

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[Nick]

For a time, I used to hide my knife box in a disused fridge at work, as someone had a habit of borrowing my knives and not returning them.

I did some work experience in a motorbike shop where the chief mechanic put all his own tools back in his own toolbox at the end of the day and put his own padlock on it.

I think that's fairly common, or was, within those industries where your tools were so important to your job. I know my brother did the same when he worked in the shipyards.

When we cleared my grandfathers house after he died we found a First World War toolbox from RNAS Vendome which he'd obtained somehow. Full of woodworking tools and neatly labelled on the front with the owners name. I'd bet the original tools had his name or number on too. The box would have been built as part of that guys apprentice training.
The box had a padlock loop on too - have to keep your tools secure even (or especially!) in the military!

[PR19_Kit]

The box would have been built as part of that guys apprentice training.

I've still got the tool box I made when I was an apprentice at PSF. It's a bit creaky now but it still does the job it was designed for.

[Weaver]

One thing I never like, on workbenches or in kitchens, is a drawer that opens right on top of a work surface, because you have to move stuff off the surface to make space for the drawer to open. That's why I'm so please the new setup lets me move a drawer unit off the worktop.

Another thing I can recommend is Pringles tubes, and/or similar things of varying lengths, for storing loose Evergreen. My long bits are currently in a Spitfire Beer gift tube and my medium bits in a miniature wheelie bin that a stationary store was selling as a pen organiser.