I have a confession....I have a serious crush on containers. I love baskets, bags, plastic bins, boxes, metal buckets, glass jars, bowls....if it can hold something then I love it! I probably own way to many containers right now, but that doesn't stop me from looking (and sometimes buying) new ones. I am drawn to the aisles with storage containers and baskets when I'm shopping. If I'm in an antique or thrift store, I'm drawn to all the vintage buckets, boxes, and jars. Sometimes I buy containers without a specific purpose in mind...I just know they look awesome and that I can surely find something to store in them. That's the way it was with the vintage locker bins I found while shopping at an antique store. I had lusted over them when seeing pictures of them on the internet and was so excited when I found not one but FIVE vintage locker bins at a reasonable price. So of course I snatched up all five, even though I had no idea what I would do with them.
For about a year, they served as storage in my scrapbook area (which was really a corner in the unfinished portion of our basement). I used them to store punches, sticker letters, stamps, and ribbons. But when my husband refinished our basement and built me a brand new scrapbook room, the locker bins didn't quite fit the decor style in the new room anymore. So for the past year they have been sitting in a corner in my basement just waiting on me to find some fabulous use for them. I recently decided what to do with them (you'll have to wait and see...it's a project for later this spring), but in the meantime found lots of fun ideas for using locker bins on the internet.
Happy Organizing!!
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