Organizing Essentials: Rubbermaid Tubs

No organizational tool has been more useful in our household than the Rubbermaid tub. We moved from Kansas City to New York with all our belongings packed in about twenty of the tubs which we bought from Wal-Mart for something like $10 apiece. (They weren’t all Rubbermaid brand proper.) We’ve since used them to not only move them from apartment to apartment, but as temporary and mid-term storage for our junk.

The 24-gallon “Action Packer” version pictured here looks extra sturdy, but is probably overkill for most.

When not in use, they tubs stack inside of themselves, taking up little space. With the lids on, they stack as high as the ceiling in cat-resistant columns. I use one to collect my electronics cruft, cables and such, while our winter clothes and shoes go in two others tucked in the basement. My Lego collection fits in two, comfortably hidden beneath my work bench.

Cardboard is for chumps.

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