5 Things to Organize With Ice Cube Trays

Sometimes the most common objects are the best problem solvers, like ice cube trays. Tucked inside a drawer or box, they can organize a multitude of small things...

• Ice cube trays are great for sorting jewelry, especially earrings.
• Store one in a drawer by your entryway and use it to sort pocket change.
• Inside a tool box, it's the ideal organizer for screws and nails.
• Use one in an office for paperclips, binder clips, rolls of stamps, and thumbtacks.
• Use them in a medicine cabinet for bobby pins, safety pins, or other odds and ends.

Bonus: They're stackable space savers.

Other ideas for organizing with ice cube trays?

Comments (6)

a great idea for dressers with the top small (but too small!) vanity/jewellry drawers!

posted by sarahjam on May 27th 2008 at 9:46am
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thanks for showing this old tip - I have some drawers I can definitely use this in.

posted by Pixie on May 27th 2008 at 11:18am
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These are good. I like the cupcake pans, too, for slightly larger items (and, here, U'm talking about the soft silicone pans). In fact, at a TJ Maxx HomeGoods I found this really cool bright green, low, segmented silicone cake pan shaped like an alligator; it's real useful for watches, cufflinks, change, etc., yet still looks like a crocodile. And they were all REAL cheap.

posted by RonnieO on May 27th 2008 at 12:14pm
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old egg cartons work great as well!

posted by peeske on May 27th 2008 at 12:29pm
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Great idea but I think I'd prefer the cupcake tin. Or a mini muffin tin would be nice if one could find a tin with lots of pans in it. I find ice cube trays really ugly and wouldn't even want them in a drawer. It's all I can do to make ice in them (but I do).

posted by Charlotte on May 27th 2008 at 3:28pm
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I second the egg carton idea - one variety of Egglands Best eggs come in a clear, plastic carton which is a little more visually appealing than an ice cube tray. I have one in one of my bathroom drawers right now that works great at holding earrings & rings!

posted by whiteyachts on January 22nd 2009 at 1:43pm
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