Organizing Ribbon

[Rene R]

Originally Posted by Princess Babies Bowtique

I'm not laughing at the shoe boxes but I am laughing at the blue and gold, lol! For all those embellishment things, I use these empty boxes from the company next to where I work. They are labeled graham cracker bars, chocolate bars, etc, lol! Depending on the embellishment, I try to glue one on the front of the box so I can spot it easily on the shelf.

I have toyed with the idea of getting these:

20pc Standard Kit - great for shoes & More (20 pcs) Neat Containers!

But I don't know anyone who has used them and free boxes are cheap!

Those look neat. I couldn't find the price. They remind me of corsage containers.

[Princess Babies Bowtique]

Well, I think that's absurd, lol! I put the starter shoe kit in a shopping cart to see how much it was and it was 66.99 for a 30 piece set. I think I have seen these on HSN or QVC. I'll check them out and let you know. (I will stick to food boxes for right now.)

[Princess Babies Bowtique]

http://home-solutions.hsn.com/store-more-20-piece-standard-closet-system_p-2433772_xp.aspx?webm_id=0&web_id=2433772&sf=hw&dep t=hw0034&cat=hw0045&ocm=hw|hw0034|hw0045&prev=hp!s f!dept!cat


there's the other link to HSN, you can see reviews of the product there. I like the concept, but for me at this time, it is too pricey.

[AdrisMommy]

Originally Posted by Miranda

Right now (don't laugh) I have been using shoe boxes for all my ribbons and accessories, and baby wipe containers to store hardware and misc. (spare needles, thread, googly eyes etc). I tried originally sorting by size and I found I was wasting a lot of time digging from box to box to get all the sizes I needed of one color. Now I have them sorted by colors, all the popular colors I use the most in one box, and all the other colors in another. I even took it a step further and put all the school colors ribbon in it's own box (woohoo blue and gold! ) so when I get a order for school colors I just pull the box out and get to work.
My plan is to eventually get a bunch of the plastic containers with snap on lids (100+yr old house = LOTS of dust!)

I have some tupperware type boxes that have snap on lids with handles. I got the big ones from the Dollar Genereal for $4 each. I store my ribbon by size. All solid color 1 1/2" together, all printed 1 1/2" together, etc. I store it all in my kitchen (ugh) on a big 6 ft tall, 4 ft wide restaurant type metal shelfing system I got from target. I will have to take a pic for y'all. Need to clean it up first though. LOL!

Anyways -- I LOVE these containers. They are the best investment I have made!!