I have one of those rubbermaid chest of drawers with three large drawers that I would like to use to store the DVDs and VHS tapes that use to just be sitting on the chair next to my TV. I would like to find some kind of box or plastic container that I could put side by side in the drawers so the DVDs and tapes could be organized nicely. I have found wicker and something called "snap-boxes" at wal-mart. The wicker is too big to fit in the box and too expensive. The snap box is a heavy cardboard coated in a black almost faux-leather that snaps together with metal snaps and has a lid. They are almost perfect, but are just a few inches too big to fit in the drawer. Also, they are still almost $8 bucks a piece, and I'd like to find something cheaper.

Has anyone found plastic or cardboard boxes made to store DVDs and/or VHS? I experimented in the tupperware storage aisle at Wal-Mart, but all the $1 plastic boxes that would have been perfect were just either a tad too small or a tad too big.

Also, how does one store books? I have a bookshelf in the kitchen for my cookbooks and gardenbooks, but there isn't enough room. I am currently just piling them in those big tupperware boxes, but that doesn't seem to be the ideal solution, either.

Why go through the time and expense to find boxes that will fit inside drawers?

Another even less expensive idea is to buy some posterboard and make your own boxes. I'd either cover these boxes with contact paper or use wide tape over the edges to keep them from wearing out. If you've never made your own boxes I can tell you how to make them.

~Becky <><

And I agree, as long as you've got drawers, why get yet another box?

you'll lose space to the box itself, plus the margin around them.

Here's what I would do: get Bainbridge board (a mat board, heavier than shirt cardboard, thinner than foam board), and cut it into dividers, then attach the dividers to the sides of the drawer. You can do this w/ duct tape (it bends nicely), or by making the divider too long, then scoring a crease to fold a tab at each end, and staple-gunning them to the drawer sides.

I have done this w/ thin cardboard in the plastic drawers to keep pens & markers from sliding; I've done it in the sock drawer and a kitchen drawer w/ foam-core board.

In my world, books go on shelves. (well, they're supposed to; right now DD's books are lying on their sides in stacks in a corner of the room.

Maria

First things first. Decide how many DVD (or VHS) you want in each box. Hold that amount together with a couple rubberbands. This will allow you to take measurements to make your boxes.

Use these measurements to make your box, depending on how you will be placing the movies in the boxes. Adding sides 1 and 3 together with the length of the bottom will give you the length to cut for the box. Adding sides 2 and 4 with the width (smaller) of the bottom will give you the width to cut the for the box.

Once you have the piece cut out to make your box you'll measure for the height of all sides of the box. Using a ruler and boning tool or back side of a table knife, score along theses lines. They are shown in red above.

Once scored clip tabs as shown above by the dotted lines. Now carefully fold along the scored lines folding tabs to the inside or outside of box and gluing them in place.

I'd advise folding packing tape over and around the top edge of the box for added stability. It will save the box from fraying with use.

I hope this makes sense. It's not really easy explaining without actually showing at the same time.

~Becky <><

Casey

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